Avant Garde Movies

  • 2002
    Sportello Quattro

    Sportello Quattro

    Sportello Quattro

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    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
  • 1979
    Maya

    Maya

    Maya

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    Hymn to nature, song to the cosmos, Mâyâ builds a world where the camera generates a new type of representation in which the depth of...

    Maya
  • 2016
    Reflections I

    Reflections I

    Reflections I

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

    Reflections I
  • 2018
    A 180-Degree Revolving Cliff

    A 180-Degree Revolving Cliff

    A 180-Degree Revolving Cliff

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    The wife lost her sense of time in the loops of life, becoming the gears of social machinery. The husband is a writer who has the spirit of...

    A 180-Degree Revolving Cliff
  • 1978
    Shrinking of the Sun

    Shrinking of the Sun

    Shrinking of the Sun

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    An experimental short.

    Shrinking of the Sun
  • 1973
    Some Friends

    Some Friends

    Some Friends

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    Roger Hammond’s silent portraits of film artists from the early 1970s were shot in and around David Larcher’s studio. Some Friends begins...

    Some Friends
  • 2009
    Dahlia

    Dahlia

    Dahlia

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    This work is one film of the omnibus ‘Seeing’. About ‘Seeing’: “Filmmaker Matsumoto Toshio, a pioneer of experimental...

    Dahlia
  • 1975
    Drawers

    Drawers

    Drawers

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    An early video curio pitched between performance art and George Méliès’ trick films, Drawers sees Colab artist Andrea Callard...

    Drawers
  • 1977
    Visual Logic (and Illogic)

    Visual Logic (and Illogic)

    Visual Logic (and Illogic)

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    Demonstrates the visual logic (and illogic) of sign combining with limited movements of camera for panning and zooming.

    Visual Logic (and Illogic)
  • 2019
    House Within The Night

    House Within The Night

    House Within The Night

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    Three lives caught in limbo between dreams, reality, and oblivion.

    House Within The Night
  • 1964
    Sabath

    Sabath

    Sabath

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    Short experimental 16mm film.

    Sabath
  • 1999
    Like a Dream that Vanishes

    Like a Dream that Vanishes

    Like a Dream that Vanishes

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    "Like a Dream That Vanishes" continues Sternberg’s work in film both thematically and formally: the ephemerality of life echoed in the temporal...

    Like a Dream that Vanishes
  • 1997
    Distorted

    Distorted "Tele" Vision

    Distorted "Tele" Vision

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    “The visual harmony of the landscape is disturbed by a screen that allows us to see into the distance (television). The film is composed of six...

    Distorted
  • 1968
    Castle Two

    Castle Two

    Castle Two

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    Found film sequences brought together in the paranoia of the cold war and Vietnam.

    Castle Two
  • 2008
    Studies in Transfalumination

    Studies in Transfalumination

    Studies in Transfalumination

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    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
  • 1993
    A Proven Partner

    A Proven Partner

    A Proven Partner

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    "I came across an old industrial film by Siemens on computer and their language. To better appreciate the film I first of all cut off the sound, I...

    A Proven Partner
  • 2008
    Rosa Rosa

    Rosa Rosa

    Rosa Rosa

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    A married woman has an affair. She gets pregnant by her lover and they live serenely together, although war is thundering towards their city. Despite...

    Rosa Rosa
  • 1988
    Lolita Separates

    Lolita Separates

    Lolita Separates

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    In this short slice of transgressive punk cinema, a woman achieves accidental revenge on her boyfriend after he cruelly kills and eats the fish-stick...

    Lolita Separates
  • 1959
    Komposition II/1922

    Komposition II/1922

    Komposition II/1922

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    Conceived in 1922, conceptual design published in "De Stijl Nr. 5" (1923), but not realised until 1959.

    Komposition II/1922
  • 2014
    The Occidental Hotel

    The Occidental Hotel

    The Occidental Hotel

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    “The Occidental Hotel is a “city” film—I was inspired to emulate the Surrealists’ sense of wandering, of flaneury, of...

    The Occidental Hotel