Avant Garde Movies

Experimental short film.

Modified flashlights and stripped down video projectors explore the visual complexities of the ordinary world: a tunnel, a clump of grass, a...

Sitting on a promenade in nice with a sign: Watch me, that’s all.

Conceived in 1922, conceptual design published in "De Stijl Nr. 5" (1923), but not realised until 1959.

An employee at the Getty owned Pierre Hotel in New York City wondered why there were so many Germans being hired and staying at The Pierre during...

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

Migrating by sea from Holland as an eight-year-old, Dirk de Bruyn went on to be a doyen of Australian experimental cinema. But as this intimate film...

A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. - Harvard Film Archive

A vivid sampler of the great Barcelona architect-sculptor’s work in situ, Sokoloff constantly is seeking out the most anthropomorphic images...

Sunny. Semantic sequences guide the gaze, a gaze that is sometimes raised, propelled downwards, then too high or motionless in front of an...

A documentary on electronic music made using "bio-feedback" devices and techniques.

An avant-garde meditation on obsolete technology. The film is of a 1930s Rheinmetall typewriter owned by the director. The film itself is projected...

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

I killed two fish for this project, and made them suffer as little as possible, in order to film them and in order to eat them. Attempting to uncover...

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

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

A post-modern fantasy based on Lefcadio Hearne's short story "Jikininki."

"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...

An early video curio pitched between performance art and George Méliès’ trick films, Drawers sees Colab artist Andrea Callard...

Scenes from a demolition derby event are combined with statements taken from automobile insurance claims in Accidental Confessions. In these claims,...