Avant Garde Movies

  • 2017
    Ether Reveries (Suite for Thérèse Rivière no.2)

    Ether Reveries (Suite for Thérèse Rivière no.2)

    Ether Reveries (Suite for Thérèse Rivière no.2)

    02017HD

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

    Ether Reveries (Suite for Thérèse Rivière no.2)
  • 2010
    Envío 23

    Envío 23

    Envío 23

    02010HD

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

    Envío 23
  • 1970
    Scan Platform Problems

    Scan Platform Problems

    Scan Platform Problems

    01970HD

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

    Scan Platform Problems
  • 1999
    Incorrect Continuity

    Incorrect Continuity

    Incorrect Continuity

    01999HD

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

    Incorrect Continuity
  • 1997
    Distorted

    Distorted "Tele" Vision

    Distorted "Tele" Vision

    71997HD

    “The visual harmony of the landscape is disturbed by a screen that allows us to see into the distance (television). The film is composed of six...

    Distorted
  • 1968
    Sonata for Pen, Brush, and Ruler

    Sonata for Pen, Brush, and Ruler

    Sonata for Pen, Brush, and Ruler

    01968HD

    From 1967-71 Barry Spinello made films without camera or tape recorder by hand drawing both sound and picture directly onto clear 16mm leader. His...

    Sonata for Pen, Brush, and Ruler
  • 1984
    Sfaira 1985 -1895

    Sfaira 1985 -1895

    Sfaira 1985 -1895

    5.71984HD

    A short experimental film; "An hommage to silent movies".

    Sfaira 1985 -1895
  • 1993
    A Proven Partner

    A Proven Partner

    A Proven Partner

    01993HD

    "I came across an old industrial film by Siemens on computer and their language. To better appreciate the film I first of all cut off the sound, I...

    A Proven Partner
  • 2014
    The Occidental Hotel

    The Occidental Hotel

    The Occidental Hotel

    02014HD

    “The Occidental Hotel is a “city” film—I was inspired to emulate the Surrealists’ sense of wandering, of flaneury, of...

    The Occidental Hotel
  • 1981
    New York Portrait, Chapter II

    New York Portrait, Chapter II

    New York Portrait, Chapter II

    7.31981HD

    Chapter Two represents a continuation of daily observations from the environment of Manhattan compiled over a period from 1980-1981. This is the...

    New York Portrait, Chapter II
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1974
    Run

    Run

    Run

    41974HD

    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...

    Run
  • 2016
    What's Ours and What We Are

    What's Ours and What We Are

    What's Ours and What We Are

    82016HD

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

    What's Ours and What We Are
  • 2002
    Substitution n°4

    Substitution n°4

    Substitution n°4

    82002HD

    A psychedelic journey reproducing in sound and images the hallucinogenic experience of an acid trip, mixing original video with images taken from TV...

    Substitution n°4
  • 2017
    Contemporary Hallucination

    Contemporary Hallucination

    Contemporary Hallucination

    02017HD

    An outcast girl makes an interesting conversation with a peculiar boy.

    Contemporary Hallucination
  • 2009
    Dahlia

    Dahlia

    Dahlia

    6.52009HD

    This work is one film of the omnibus ‘Seeing’. About ‘Seeing’: “Filmmaker Matsumoto Toshio, a pioneer of experimental...

    Dahlia
  • 2011
    Mote It Be

    Mote It Be

    Mote It Be

    02011HD

    This film concentrated the crystal energy of earth nature, expended the trace and texture of mote. It try to use powerful flicker image to tune up...

    Mote It Be