Avant Garde Movies

In support of experiences that are essentially common, but to which language does not easily adhere, the video passes through places that are both...

To summon the third eye awakening, we should not agitate the surface of the mind and physical eye, but soothe and provoke the third eye to awaken. In...

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

Thanks to his myriad film roles, Lon Chaney is known as “the man of a thousand faces,” and you could say that the early horror era never...

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 film is entirely hand-painted and is composed of such an evolution of variably colored shapes that their inter-action with each other should...

Arf Arf is a sound poetry (voice and gesticulation) group. They describe their first film together as 'songs nailed together in a film'. The film is...

In What’s Ours and What We Are, images, motifs and words that originally served a particular political agenda are playfully manipulated to...

A film constructed from a succession of drawings on old books.

A bursting of mostly golden light forms as if heralding sunlight itself in their hurried (single-frame) display.

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...

One of the most iconic sequences in the history of Hollywood cinema (from Alfred Hitchcock’s NORTH BY NORTHWEST) is deconstructed and...

Polish avant-garde animation in which a periodic series of aggressive starbursts interrupt the melodic dancing of fluid shapes, one raid even...

An early film by British experimental filmmaker Nick Collins. It combines bulbous, rapid-motion abstractions of greenery with a portrait of a cat,...

A sequence of 10 images presented in 10 groups of 400 alternating frames. The primary image of a bird is gradually disfigured by the successive...

Interplay of mostly horizontal lines inter-woven with "watermark" forms in a wide variety of tones which gradually tend to dissolve into blues at the...

Short experimental 16mm film.

With this film-manifesto, the two artists invent what they called the Cinéma corporel (Cinema of the Body), they present themselves as a...

This film evolves from several years’ observation of the sexual energy which charges the world of business and the qualities of palatial...

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