Avant Garde Movies

Like "Sackgasse", a brilliantly filmed and edited impression of a big city, underpinned by groovy jazz rhythms.

Several fragments of one day in Leningrad in the autumn of 1989, refracted in the imagination of the artist.

An obsessive Vine star goes down a road of surreal imagery, as his obsession with the application develops into murder.

“The structure of human vision is the visual knowledge of the world. Individuals do not visually understand the world through the eyes, but...

From 1967-71 Barry Spinello made films without camera or tape recorder by hand drawing both sound and picture directly onto clear 16mm leader. His...

Turquoise and maroon-toned thin lines of paint are interspersed with variously toned circular "watermarks" of blotched paint giving-way to...

These two films investigate frustrations in loving, DAYBREAK with a girl as object, WHITEYE with the camera as subject. Preserved by the Academy...

A documentary of an avant-garde theatre performance, presents an orgiastic rite of sex, degradation, and bloody sacrifice, performed by Zero-Jigen.

Animation, also of a new order in the recent series of short works. Mostly on black space, the figures in blue perform a very compact and jewel-like...

A young man desperately seeks out the fleeting image of a female companion, and though he never quite catches her, he discovers much more through the...

Five years in the making, Lawrence Jordan's feature-length "alchemical autobiography" Sophie's Place takes as its inspiration the story of the Greek...

About the failure. Maybe as a strategy. About the feeling of searching but not finding, and not even knowing what you are looking for. The kitchen as...

After waiting for a bus at Fern Tree that never arrives, a clown takes refuge under the snowy rocks of Mount Wellington and frolics on the wintery...

A Landscape documentary about the silent voids the living inhabit after everyone they love has gone.

A couple stroll through a wintry landscape - Is this a dream? Is this Heaven?

A film of and through the trees. Leaves catch, consume and resist the light through the seasons.

Preferring to shower with clothes on, they wait patiently for an evening with Winder, a living movie camera. Made as an exercise activity for...

The life of Ukrainian-Soviet avant-garde composer Alexander Mosolov inspires three stories about creation and individualism in the face of state...