Avant Garde Movies

  • 1967
    A Sense of the Past

    A Sense of the Past

    A Sense of the Past

    01967HD

    This is a short film description of a room, and the way light (coming through a window) illuminates papers on a desk. An attempt to use color, camera...

    A Sense of the Past
  • 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
  • 2019
    Trópico violeta

    Trópico violeta

    Trópico violeta

    02019HD

    Women, landscapes and manifestations of color meet experimentally with the possibilities of the artisanal copying technique on 16mm.

    Trópico violeta
  • 2010
    Casa Loma

    Casa Loma

    Casa Loma

    02010HD

    Casa Loma was the unfinished dream mansion of Canadian industrial magnate Henry Pellatt. A self-made millionaire, Pellatt was derided by fellow...

    Casa Loma
  • 2001
    A Week in the Hole

    A Week in the Hole

    A Week in the Hole

    02001HD

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

    A Week in the Hole
  • 1999
    Merger

    Merger

    Merger

    01999HD

    A disgruntled bank teller’s system before the mornings commute.

    Merger
  • 2017
    Black River Falls

    Black River Falls

    Black River Falls

    02017HD

    Music by Dick Connette from his album, Too Sad for the Public Vol. 1: Oysters Ice Cream Lemonade. Suzzy Roche sings the vocal. Dick’s lyrics...

    Black River Falls
  • 1991
    Royaume

    Royaume

    Royaume

    71991HD

    Light, colour, abstraction, perception, hallucination: a few concerns closely akin to those of ETANT DONNÉS which, however, do not amount to...

    Royaume
  • 1983
    Winter Light

    Winter Light

    Winter Light

    101983HD

    Though best known for his collage films, Lawrence Jordan here makes exquisite study of the different aspects of light lilting through the early...

    Winter Light
  • 2005
    Big Black Square

    Big Black Square

    Big Black Square

    02005HD

    Short film by Paul Clipson from the Celluloid Sketches & Watercolor Movies DVD

    Big Black Square
  • 2019
    La Jardinera

    La Jardinera

    La Jardinera

    02019HD

    Starting from frame by frame in-camera editing, the film translates a nursery garden from Chillán into a filmic landscape, with a rhythm and...

    La Jardinera
  • 2016
    Abduction

    Abduction

    Abduction

    82016HD

    Going back to the places of crime scenes and urban legends, a Visual Bizarre Adventure in Daytime.

    Abduction
  • 1984
    Images That Ate Themselves

    Images That Ate Themselves

    Images That Ate Themselves

    01984HD

    16mm film by Bojan Jovanović.

    Images That Ate Themselves
  • 2005
    Ariadne

    Ariadne

    Ariadne

    02005HD

    The constant movement of the wheels, threads, sprockets, feet and hands suggests restlessness, and this is paralleled by the soundtrack. The unknown...

    Ariadne
  • 2011
    The Collapse of PAL

    The Collapse of PAL

    The Collapse of PAL

    02011HD

    In "The Collapse of PAL" (Eulogy, Obsequies and Requiem for the planes of blue phosphor), the Angel of History (as described by Walter Benjamin)...

    The Collapse of PAL
  • 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
  • 1978
    Peripeteia II

    Peripeteia II

    Peripeteia II

    01978HD

    Peripeteia I and Peripeteia II, shot by the artist in Oregon’s rainforest, alone and without electricity

    Peripeteia II
  • 1969
    Stand Up and Be Counted

    Stand Up and Be Counted

    Stand Up and Be Counted

    01969HD

    A continuous dissolve into a series of happy nude couples in various configurations: female/male, female/female, male/male, as the Rolling Stones...

    Stand Up and Be Counted
  • 1992
    Han (on the sun)

    Han (on the sun)

    Han (on the sun)

    01992HD

    Han closes a trilogy that began with Ere erera baleibu... (1968) and continued with Impressions en haute atmosphère (1991), which goes from...

    Han (on the sun)
  • 1976
    Skyworks:

    Skyworks: "Light, Lighten, Lightning" (Three Mile Drop)

    Skyworks: "Light, Lighten, Lightning" (Three Mile Drop)

    01976HD

    16mm film (color, sound); 16 min.

    Skyworks: