Avant Garde Movies

A colorful collage, with a subtle ecology theme, made largely from footage from trial runs of programs used for many of the other films.

An avant-garde "experimental anthropological poem" from France.

Television was invented as a result of scientific and technical research. Its power as a medium of news and entertainment altered all preceding media...

A film about endless processes. Images reappearing. New sentences being written.

"The video "Between the ocean" is a juxtaposition of interior and exterior spaces in Japan that are somehow connected. The material for this video...

(Always) Next to Me is a 16mm film that pairs abstract sequences of plants developed directly on the film emulsion with intertitles briefly...

FUDDY DUDDY uses the motif of the grid to blow it to pieces. Being occupied with structural film, I repeatedly draw 'frame plans', using grid...

Two men sit in a car, watching the world through the windshield. One is silent, the other is slowly drinking himself to death. External reality...

A film about creation itself, a rite of the sun and the surfaces illuminated by it. Light capturing and light summoning "in a primitive attempt to...

Filmed in Quintay, sent to Santiago. For Claudia Muñoz. "In the rocks by the sea there is a woman watching the sun set. We read, we talk"....

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

The creation of an infinite space. Light modulations over water surfaces, conjugating into multiple alterations. Time and light being reshaped...

Short movie from the German band "Das Ich". "Kaleidoskop" was filmed by Kevin Gross.

Five people of different ages, professions, and backgrounds, explore madness through collective play and the performance of surreal acts, freeing...

Young boy confesses his love toward a grocery store chain in a abstract manner.

In December, 1941, using music by Stravinsky, this film provides a reaction to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. An egg is smashed by a hammer;...

A young man embarks on an obsessive and increasingly surreal project to create the perfect human being. As the work progresses, the line between...

The film is about the deceleration of motion in linear form and speed, establishing a connection between space and love. It ends with high-contrast...

A radical series of images from Karl Ring.

Ken Burns Says "Jazz" 3 Billion Times (actually 2.97 bn) in Under 3.5 Minutes