Avant Garde Movies

POSTCARD FROM SAN MIGUEL is perhaps the most mystical of all the films from Lawrence Jordan's "Odyssey" triptych. On the surface, it is merely a...

A study of ruins of a fortified castle placed in the village of Seyssuel during two days of shooting and understanding of the moving light

Christmas Eve in rapid camera.

Burn flowers burn ,as dreams.Dreams burn down like they were never meant to bloom.

The ancient Thracian bard Orpheus laments ever for his lost love Eurydice. Having returned from the Underworld in his attempts to retrieve her, he...

A brief and experimental ode to the humble dandelion, shot on 16mm developed using an eco-processor made of dandelions.

A representation of my own memory during the course of this year, illustrated by visuals.

1 minute, color, silent 16mm

"In this experimental film from 1969 the seeds are seen of my exploration of the mouth motif, which reached its full expression in the...

A Week in the Hole chronicles a factory employee’s adjusting to the materials, time, space and personnel during his first day of work.

Drawing together footage, photographs and texts from archival sources as well as the artist’s personal collection of materials, Yto...

Filmed in Zürich. For Robert Beavers. Talking about the illuminated and the un-illuminated.

The most beautiful planet deconstructed, played with, and put back together again.

“The ‘exhibition’ held by ‘artist’ Katsuhiro Fujimura in Tokyo during the very hot summer of 2013 was one that made...

“Sequences of space-time manipulation that raise the problem of continuity in the shot.” - Yo Ota

“One can not speak of time as a thing in itself. It is movements and variations that give the feeling of time. Men have always linked time and...

Short avant garde film. Views of rippling water.

An old man (artist and landscape architect Bevis Bawa) contemplates the Garden of Eden.

For five grueling years, Li Ning documents his struggle to achieve success as an avant-garde artist while contending with the pressures of modern...

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