Avant Garde Movies

Heineken is an abstraction based on an image from a six pack of beer. The extraction of color and transformation of the source image are...

A continuous dissolve into a series of happy nude couples in various configurations: female/male, female/female, male/male, as the Rolling Stones...

Using the unstability of digital to pursue the unstability of film.

Early short by Peter Gidal.

In the hyperkinetic multichannel video installation Devil’s Peak, Simon Liu surveys the psychogeography of Hong Kong as a feverish dreamscape,...

An experimental short by Tao Zhou.

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

In 1933, at age 33, Harry Alan Potamkin died of complications related to starvation, at a time when he was one of the world's most respected film...

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

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...

A stream of mysterious rituals and symbols are encountered as a young boy journeys to school in the fantastical world of Kshya Tra Ghya.

An experimental short.

An experimental work that explores sound and vision as an emotional response system.

A cinematic meeting point between nature and technology, Doug Aitken’s unearthly short is enfolded in evocative hymns whose voices are eerily...

A short Avant-Garde experimental film

Common Mistakes uses four synonyms for the word "mistake" (fallacy, error, accident, and blunder) to present a sample of widely held "truths" that...

Light painting and nature imagery are captured in 13 shots of different points of luminescence, on the 13th anniversary of Schwartz’s...

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

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...