Avant Garde Movies

  • 1973
    Some Friends

    Some Friends

    Some Friends

    01973HD

    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
  • 2011
    Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film

    Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film

    Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film

    02011HD

    16mm film negative sanded with surfboard shaping tools, sex wax melted on, squirted, dripped, splashed, sprayed and rubbed with donuts, zinc oxide,...

    Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film
  • 1987
    Accidental Confessions

    Accidental Confessions

    Accidental Confessions

    01987HD

    Scenes from a demolition derby event are combined with statements taken from automobile insurance claims in Accidental Confessions. In these claims,...

    Accidental Confessions
  • 1961
    The Earth

    The Earth

    The Earth

    01961HD

    Short experimental 16mm film.

    The Earth
  • 1978
    Interieur Interiors (To A-K)

    Interieur Interiors (To A-K)

    Interieur Interiors (To A-K)

    01978HD

    Changes of spatial relationships, scales, locations, and materials are intimated with recognisable clues which nevertheless do not always eliminate...

    Interieur Interiors (To A-K)
  • 2009
    Reflex/Reflection

    Reflex/Reflection

    Reflex/Reflection

    02009HD

    “This film was made for an event that included an exhibition of artwork by Eishi Yamatomo. Yamatomo’s metal sculpture is often finished...

    Reflex/Reflection
  • 2000
    Incorrect Intermittence

    Incorrect Intermittence

    Incorrect Intermittence

    02000HD

    “This film offers a metacinematic study of tempo and change and a figure of velocity. […] Ota recorded [three different locations in...

    Incorrect Intermittence
  • 1985
    Städel

    Städel

    Städel

    01985HD

    “Peter Kubelka…was teaching at Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule (Städel) at the time....

    Städel
  • 2016
    Now We Put The Little Feelers On The Butterfly

    Now We Put The Little Feelers On The Butterfly

    Now We Put The Little Feelers On The Butterfly

    02016HD

    Vast horizons and hollow landscapes. Figures in funeral gowns swaying from reality. Withering within without wunnienuther, we wandered windswept...

    Now We Put The Little Feelers On The Butterfly
  • 2016
    Goodbye Philippines

    Goodbye Philippines

    Goodbye Philippines

    02016HD

    Goodbye Philippines surveys an undead landscape, textured by phantoms. It is as if this feeling of a legacy regards tradition and cultural custom as...

    Goodbye Philippines
  • 2014
    Now Eat My Script

    Now Eat My Script

    Now Eat My Script

    02014HD

    "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...

    Now Eat My Script
  • 1978
    Mystery and Melancholy of a Street

    Mystery and Melancholy of a Street

    Mystery and Melancholy of a Street

    01978HD

    16mm film by Radoslav Vladić.

    Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
  • 1970
    Memories and My Mother

    Memories and My Mother

    Memories and My Mother

    01970HD

    A personal film on love, loss, and time. Through fragments of home, old footage, and found sounds, the filmmaker traces his mother’s quiet...

    Memories and My Mother
  • 1970
    Epistemology: Floating Images and the Search for a Greater Enallage

    Epistemology: Floating Images and the Search for a Greater Enallage

    Epistemology: Floating Images and the Search for a Greater Enallage

    01970HD

    Philosophical excerpts breaking the rules of language overlapped with footage of nature, inscrutable voice recordings, strange noises, and classical...

    Epistemology: Floating Images and the Search for a Greater Enallage
  • 1997
    Yoni

    Yoni

    Yoni

    01997HD

    This provocative short film explores women's power, force and passion through an enigmatic series of images, erotic performances and tableaux vivant....

    Yoni
  • 2021
    Dreams From My Backyard

    Dreams From My Backyard

    Dreams From My Backyard

    02021HD

    A radical series of images from Karl Ring.

    Dreams From My Backyard
  • 1968
    Welcome to Come

    Welcome to Come

    Welcome to Come

    01968HD

    Welcome to Come, which depicts a somewhat mysterious transformation of the image in the course of a single zoom, was my only film to achieve a small...

    Welcome to Come
  • 1967
    A Sense of the Past

    A Sense of the Past

    A Sense of the Past

    01967HD

    This is a short film description of a room, and the way light (coming through a window) illuminates papers on a desk. An attempt to use color, camera...

    A Sense of the Past
  • 1976
    Head

    Head

    Head

    01976HD

    Staggeringly simple films: a man itching his back, a man thinking, a man yawning, but like the works of Samuel Beckett, these minute gestures stand...

    Head
  • 1975
    Itch

    Itch

    Itch

    01975HD

    Staggeringly simple films: a man itching his back, a man thinking, a man yawning, but like the works of Samuel Beckett, these minute gestures stand...

    Itch