Avant Garde Movies

A light explodes and becomes a snail.

Judith Wardwell’s satirical take on America’s sanitation obsession and sexually repressive Puritanism

A man runs through city streets, followed by a figure darkly dressed, always on his heels. He gets something to eat, reads a paper, smokes a...

A young man, attempting to watch a VHS tape of "Love Streams" by John Cassavetes on his television, is constantly harassed and annoyed by outside...

The work departs from Ernst Toller’s play “Die Maschinenstürmer” (1922), but relocates its themes along the remnants and...

Vanessa is based on the untimely death of Vanessa Jordan. A work about loss and Michelangelo.

A correctional officer’s daily routine of gaining access into a correctional facility.

Drawing together footage, photographs and texts from archival sources as well as the artist’s personal collection of materials, Yto...

An experimental short by Tao Zhou.

In 1967, I decided to visit Avila where I had an enlightening experience.

The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal founders of Surrealism, Max Ernst explores the...

Electro-Pythagorus is an intimate and subjective portrait of the late Martin Bartlett, the Canadian electronic music pioneer who studied with Pauline...

A man’s female friend who just came back from London spends time on the river shore.

Caspar Stracke replicates Jill Godmilow's replica of Harun Faroci's film "Inextinguishable Fire."

A poetic journey from the darkness of dawn into the brightness of the midday sun in the American South. Filmed over the course of six months on one...

A psychedelic, avant-garde collage film designed to accompany PRPL PPL's experimental album of the same name.

Experimental short film exploring New York City's multicultural history through the eyes of three chosen individuals.

Light painting and nature imagery are captured in 13 shots of different points of luminescence, on the 13th anniversary of Schwartz’s...

Director Lam Can-Zhao leads a small film crew as they shoot a film about a stray dog in the streets of Guangzhou, leading viewers into an...

Spectrum and prism divide the screen; whites and light, etc. "Out of this purity comes all colors. I've always been attracted to refracted light and...