Avant Garde Movies

  • 2021
    Dreams From My Backyard

    Dreams From My Backyard

    Dreams From My Backyard

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    A radical series of images from Karl Ring.

    Dreams From My Backyard
  • 2008
    Untitled

    Untitled

    Untitled

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    A minimalist monochromatic film frame is projected through a glass pane fogged via a humidification system. The planular drift of the projected frame...

    Untitled
  • 2018
    Gems

    Gems

    Gems

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    "as work in progress: treasures found in the streams around me."

    Gems
  • 2020
    The Resounding Life of a Maguey

    The Resounding Life of a Maguey

    The Resounding Life of a Maguey

    02020HD

    A short film directed by the Argentine filmmaker Ernesto Baca

    The Resounding Life of a Maguey
  • 2024
    So Green

    So Green

    So Green

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    An experimental four-part short film that shows the outcomes of life through a vacation trip.

    So Green
  • 2023
    No Time

    No Time

    No Time

    02023HD

    Experimental short film about the fragility of time

    No Time
  • 2023
    bleared eyes of blue glass

    bleared eyes of blue glass

    bleared eyes of blue glass

    02023HD

    The "bleared eyes of blue glass" in the title of this experimental short expand on a verbal image from Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves, considered...

    bleared eyes of blue glass
  • 1970
    Inadequateness of a shadow

    Inadequateness of a shadow

    Inadequateness of a shadow

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    A foolish shadow attempts to behave like a real entity but the irony takes place

    Inadequateness of a shadow
  • 1972
    Lijn II

    Lijn II

    Lijn II

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    Lijn II is a tiny portrait of a friend made on a contact printer from scraps of a film that was lost

    Lijn II
  • 2011
    Maria

    Maria

    Maria

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    Maria Lang is my very close filmmaker friend who lives in the southern german countryside. We see her gardening and visiting an exhibition of female...

    Maria
  • 2009
    The Pursuit of What Was

    The Pursuit of What Was

    The Pursuit of What Was

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    How do those within the memories show themselves to us?

    The Pursuit of What Was
  • 2020
    at her heels a stone

    at her heels a stone

    at her heels a stone

    02020HD

    An essay on the brutality of beauty and innocence in a hostile world.

    at her heels a stone
  • 2018
    Sneyd Green

    Sneyd Green

    Sneyd Green

    62018HD

    It’s any day, any year in the house of Alan and Vera Ellis in their Post-Industrial English conurbation formerly known for their world renown...

    Sneyd Green
  • 2018
    The Darkening Veil

    The Darkening Veil

    The Darkening Veil

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    A meditative journey through an ancient and desolate land enveloped in an ever darkening mist.

    The Darkening Veil
  • 1976
    The Letter

    The Letter

    The Letter

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    A symbolic rape by the Devil and a renewal of self worth.

    The Letter
  • 2003
    Collage d’Hollywood

    Collage d’Hollywood

    Collage d’Hollywood

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

    Collage d’Hollywood
  • 1973
    Some Friends

    Some Friends

    Some Friends

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    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
  • 2007
    Quiet Chaos of Desire

    Quiet Chaos of Desire

    Quiet Chaos of Desire

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    "A good friend of mine died at 9:10 a.m. Saturday, July 21, 2007... my film piece is called "Quiet Chaos of Desire" it comes out of my experience in...

    Quiet Chaos of Desire
  • 2017
    Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding

    Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding

    Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding

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    "Thornton's magnum opus, this ongoing and open-ended serial follows its two improvisatory protagonists, children “raised by technology,”...

    Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding
  • 2015
    Ken Burns Says

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

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

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

    Ken Burns Says