Avant Garde Movies

A man runs through city streets, followed by a figure darkly dressed, always on his heels. He gets something to eat, reads a paper, smokes a...

Han closes a trilogy that began with Ere erera baleibu... (1968) and continued with Impressions en haute atmosphère (1991), which goes from...

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

"My name, melancholia".

How do those within the memories show themselves to us?

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

An avant-garde meditation on obsolete technology. The film is of a 1930s Rheinmetall typewriter owned by the director. The film itself is projected...

Imported (1999) is about three methods of ridding collard and kale greens of a pesky insect.

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...

An experimental short.

An eight-minute work filmed on 35mm film, Collage d’Hollywood explores the materiality of the film medium in a literal way. Collage is...

This black-and-white nightmare gives Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale
of the dark id a campy, gender-flipping treatment reminiscent...

Edited but not printed. Filmed in Zurich. Original reversal film deposted in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

"A sequence shot explores from attic to celler a large residence that, for the time being, is emptied out of its inhabitants. Their habits are...

The ocean, the trees, the varieties of cityscape and landscape assert themselves as "pictures", but the images are essentially a wash and tangle of...

This section is very similar to Prelude 4 except that it is composed of extremely thin-lined colors and sharply delineated shapes which are...

Interplay of toned rectangular shapes, vertical and horizontal and diagonal lines in juxtaposition with hardened darker shapes which gradually shift...

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...

Though best known for his collage films, Lawrence Jordan here makes exquisite study of the different aspects of light lilting through the early...