Avant Garde Movies

  • 2023
    bleared eyes of blue glass

    bleared eyes of blue glass

    bleared eyes of blue glass

    02023HD

    The "bleared eyes of blue glass" in the title of this experimental short expand on a verbal image from Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves, considered...

    bleared eyes of blue glass
  • 2022
    All The Stars We Made

    All The Stars We Made

    All The Stars We Made

    92022HD

    A journey through a composite galaxy of artificial light.

    All The Stars We Made
  • 1970
    A Chair

    A Chair

    A Chair

    01970HD

    One of Takahiko Iimura's (and modern art's) earliest works in conceptual video, A Chair entirely consists of a steady (and usually ghosted) image of...

    A Chair
  • 1961
    Document 6.15

    Document 6.15

    Document 6.15

    01961HD

    Experimental film by Motoharu Jonouchi comprised of both archival footage from the 1960s Japanese student riots and dramatised re-enactions. It was...

    Document 6.15
  • 1972
    GAUDÍ

    GAUDÍ

    GAUDÍ

    01972HD

    A vivid sampler of the great Barcelona architect-sculptor’s work in situ, Sokoloff constantly is seeking out the most anthropomorphic images...

    GAUDÍ
  • 1924
    Diagonal Symphony

    Diagonal Symphony

    Diagonal Symphony

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    A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which...

    Diagonal Symphony
  • 1990
    Protective Coloration

    Protective Coloration

    Protective Coloration

    01990HD

    This film is a succession of visual and aural "notes" generated by the patterns in animals' hides, which are arranged and re-edited into a complex...

    Protective Coloration
  • 2021
    Collage

    Collage

    Collage

    02021HD

    Collage
  • 2020
    Parental Leave

    Parental Leave

    Parental Leave

    82020HD

    "Images and sounds culled from the first few months with my daughter, sometimes resembling that of a family group chat, where pictures and videos are...

    Parental Leave
  • 1997
    Eleven Eighty Two

    Eleven Eighty Two

    Eleven Eighty Two

    01997HD

    Images of the uniforms as the Ohio guard is interviewed off-camera.

    Eleven Eighty Two
  • 1971
    Man and Woman

    Man and Woman

    Man and Woman

    01971HD

    MAN AND WOMAN shows full body shots of a naked man and woman shot from above without movement. They are shown alone as well as together, one over (or...

    Man and Woman
  • 1984
    Joe's Maison

    Joe's Maison

    Joe's Maison

    01984HD

    The film began as a record of the painter Joseph Glin and his series of paintings inspired by "La Maison Des Mortes" by Guillaume Apollinaire. After...

    Joe's Maison
  • 2011
    Christ Church – Saint James

    Christ Church – Saint James

    Christ Church – Saint James

    72011HD

    In the spring of 1998, Christ Church - Saint James, an historic black church in Toronto's Little Italy, was destroyed by arson. All that remained...

    Christ Church – Saint James
  • 2023
    Inquieta

    Inquieta

    Inquieta

    102023HD

    An intimate and introspective experimental film in which the author's anxious manias and worries are presented visually, without the need for sound....

    Inquieta
  • 1969
    Untitled

    Untitled

    Untitled

    01969HD

    Made in 1969. 1min. 16mm. Black and White

    Untitled
  • 2020
    Where Do The Waves Go?

    Where Do The Waves Go?

    Where Do The Waves Go?

    02020HD

    A documentary on electronic music made using "bio-feedback" devices and techniques.

    Where Do The Waves Go?
  • 2002
    Sportello Quattro

    Sportello Quattro

    Sportello Quattro

    02002HD

    Sportello Quattro, filmed during a residency at the American Academy in Rome, is about immigration, work and community among people of color in...

    Sportello Quattro
  • 2018
    Two

    Two

    Two

    02018HD

    A short Avant-Garde experimental film

    Two
  • 2003
    Collage d’Hollywood

    Collage d’Hollywood

    Collage d’Hollywood

    52003HD

    An eight-minute work filmed on 35mm film, Collage d’Hollywood explores the materiality of the film medium in a literal way. Collage is...

    Collage d’Hollywood
  • 2008
    Studies in Transfalumination

    Studies in Transfalumination

    Studies in Transfalumination

    02008HD

    Modified flashlights and stripped down video projectors explore the visual complexities of the ordinary world: a tunnel, a clump of grass, a...

    Studies in Transfalumination