Avant Garde Movies

Three student filmmakers set out to capture each other's inner life struggles in an avant-garde documentary, but as the lens turns inward and time...

A thrillingly lo-fi salute to the old-school, hand-crafted special effects that were once a mainstay of pre-CGI science-fiction films.

Six Positions (1998) is about task of a funeral home director.

For the first time I am animating hand-painted engraved cut-outs on a full-color background. The film is mood-filled: A duel scene in a snowy forest,...

"Untitled begins with a flat, out-of-focus, reddish-pink screen on which blurry white patterns quickly appear and disappear. After awhile a space...

A meditation on light and water; landscape as self-portraiture.

Here I am. A mind backed up by delusion of previous condition. Free or humiliated? Who is ashamed? Me or you? It is so hard to share one's secret.

The world appears black on black until it separates from itself, looks at itself, includes itself, and sees colour.

The Black Album places scrutiny on the notion of "Black Excellence" in a revisionist take.

Munchsferatu is a painter who has become a vampire by living only for his art. An experimental narrative mashup film with David Bowie, Gérard...

Seeing, Hearing, Saying Nothing. Ben stands with ears, eyes, mouth bandaged.

Short experimental 16mm film.

This engaged reading of the urban black riots of the 1960s references Guy Debord’s Situationist text, “The Decline and Fall of the...

"Now Eat My Script is a precipice, a fluid solution in which some spectral noises of the self float adrift. Narration takes the role of a pregnant...

Features four distinct, bizarre, existential tales about people whose lives are in transition, who are each asking questions about themselves, their...

Filmed in Zürich. For Robert Beavers. Talking about the illuminated and the un-illuminated.

A (barely) two minute short is that it was made specially for a Paramount newsreel segment on Bute and Nemeth making films in their teensy New York...

This is a surrealistic documentary with a strong format which is based on the point of view of author. Tan can't fall in sleep in the night, is that...

A woman comes to terms with her life on her last day in town.

An experimental reinterpretation of 1950s science fiction B movies.