Avant Garde Movies

A radical series of images from Karl Ring.

The Black Film Series, a sequence of seven films made between 1965-69, is a primitive, sensory exploration of the medium, which ranges from total...

Judith Wardwell’s satirical take on America’s sanitation obsession and sexually repressive Puritanism

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

An 1962 Avant-Garde Comedy by George Kuchar.

"The Heavens"–Symmetrical chaos envelops a lone, topless man, whose symmetrical abstractions conjure up a psychadelic version of DaVinci's...

Welcome to Come, which depicts a somewhat mysterious transformation of the image in the course of a single zoom, was my only film to achieve a small...

A young man recalls different moments of his life, reflecting the preservation of memory, the enigma of time and the inevitability of death

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

(Always) Next to Me is a 16mm film that pairs abstract sequences of plants developed directly on the film emulsion with intertitles briefly...

The film is an observational telling of a watchman in an apartment complex in Guwahati, Assam, India. It blends documentary to explore his alienation...

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

This is an abstract film of a dream. It is a dream of paranoia, schizophrenia, manic-depression, and anxiety.

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

Short film made with underexposed video footage.

An essay on the brutality of beauty and innocence in a hostile world.

An avant-garde "experimental anthropological poem" from France.

Images of the uniforms as the Ohio guard is interviewed off-camera.

Filmed in Zürich. For Sofía Verder "As if I had the intention to narrate things, I have saved a considerable amount of notes and...

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