Avant Garde Movies

  • 2022
    Devil's Peak

    Devil's Peak

    Devil's Peak

    52022HD

    In the hyperkinetic multichannel video installation Devil’s Peak, Simon Liu surveys the psychogeography of Hong Kong as a feverish dreamscape,...

    Devil's Peak
  • 2008
    Untitled

    Untitled

    Untitled

    02008HD

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

    Untitled
  • 1991
    paint'o jazz

    paint'o jazz

    paint'o jazz

    01991HD

    A short film, shot in a long take, interpreted, drawn and directed by Jean-Louis Bompoint, with the precious collaboration of Hélène...

    paint'o jazz
  • 2012
    The Woolworths Choir of 1979

    The Woolworths Choir of 1979

    The Woolworths Choir of 1979

    5.52012HD

    Concerned with processes of assembly, CHOIR brings together disparate bodies of material and archival technologies into dissonant concert. It is a...

    The Woolworths Choir of 1979
  • 1949
    The Petrified Dog

    The Petrified Dog

    The Petrified Dog

    5.31949HD

    Chases within chases. A mother runs after a child. A man seems to be pursuing himself. A woman who has been nibbling her lipstick through half of the...

    The Petrified Dog
  • 2023
    Xiuhtecuhtli

    Xiuhtecuhtli

    Xiuhtecuhtli

    02023HD

    This is a rhythmic invocation of the ancestral fire, in which dazzling flames reanimate bones and natural elements. This is the shining of colour.

    Xiuhtecuhtli
  • 2022
    With Short-Lived Wings

    With Short-Lived Wings

    With Short-Lived Wings

    02022HD

    The Greek word for mayfly (its order in biological systematics) - ephemeroptera - can be split and translated as having short-lived wings. The oldest...

    With Short-Lived Wings
  • 1976
    Bird Lady vs. the Galloping Gonads

    Bird Lady vs. the Galloping Gonads

    Bird Lady vs. the Galloping Gonads

    01976HD

    "A springtime Fantasy," everything comes joyfully together in mirthful mythic warmth as Bird Lad's white line on black background richly sprouts,...

    Bird Lady vs. the Galloping Gonads
  • 1972
    Lijn II

    Lijn II

    Lijn II

    01972HD

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

    Lijn II
  • 1976
    Head

    Head

    Head

    01976HD

    Staggeringly simple films: a man itching his back, a man thinking, a man yawning, but like the works of Samuel Beckett, these minute gestures stand...

    Head
  • 2009
    The Pursuit of What Was

    The Pursuit of What Was

    The Pursuit of What Was

    72009HD

    How do those within the memories show themselves to us?

    The Pursuit of What Was
  • 2009
    Reflex/Reflection

    Reflex/Reflection

    Reflex/Reflection

    02009HD

    “This film was made for an event that included an exhibition of artwork by Eishi Yamatomo. Yamatomo’s metal sculpture is often finished...

    Reflex/Reflection
  • 2017
    Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding

    Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding

    Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding

    02017HD

    "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
  • 1978
    Mystery and Melancholy of a Street

    Mystery and Melancholy of a Street

    Mystery and Melancholy of a Street

    01978HD

    16mm film by Radoslav Vladić.

    Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
  • 1970
    The Weir-Falcon Saga

    The Weir-Falcon Saga

    The Weir-Falcon Saga

    51970HD

    The term "The Weir-Falcon Saga" appeared to me, night after night, at the end of a series of dreams: I was "true" to the feeling, tho not the images,...

    The Weir-Falcon Saga
  • 2010
    Me, Myself, and My Third Eye: 4 Enlightened Stories For 1 Imperfect God

    Me, Myself, and My Third Eye: 4 Enlightened Stories For 1 Imperfect God

    Me, Myself, and My Third Eye: 4 Enlightened Stories For 1 Imperfect God

    52010HD

    Features four distinct, bizarre, existential tales about people whose lives are in transition, who are each asking questions about themselves, their...

    Me, Myself, and My Third Eye: 4 Enlightened Stories For 1 Imperfect God
  • 2025
    Sleeping Outside

    Sleeping Outside

    Sleeping Outside

    02025HD

    Sleeping and dreaming under the sun

    Sleeping Outside
  • 2024
    Foreign Surface

    Foreign Surface

    Foreign Surface

    02024HD

    An experimental reinterpretation of 1950s science fiction B movies.

    Foreign Surface
  • 2002
    Soupirs d’écumes

    Soupirs d’écumes

    Soupirs d’écumes

    02002HD

    The twilight and half-closed vision of the blinding bursts barely reveals fleeting and luminous unexpected phosphorescences, through and through the...

    Soupirs d’écumes
  • 1970
    Belongings and Surroundings

    Belongings and Surroundings

    Belongings and Surroundings

    01970HD

    A love story recounted not by them, but by their belongings and surroundings.

    Belongings and Surroundings