Avant Garde Movies

Active elements at play, in toil, and in retreat, seeking peace.

A symbolic rape by the Devil and a renewal of self worth.

A side table and a chest of drawers (played by actors in ingenious soft-sculpture costumes) indulge in a bit of passive-aggressive furniture moving....

“My attempt at a filmic interpretation of Haraguchi Noriyuki’s ‘Inclined Horizon,’ a three-dimensional physical work featured...

MAN AND WOMAN shows full body shots of a naked man and woman shot from above without movement. They are shown alone as well as together, one over (or...

Playing with the recording of a water polo match, Galeta creates a kind of Copernicus twist in the structure and perception of this sports game. The...

This documentary aims to register this unknown side of James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks. Trieste. Bloomsday, 2013. Dance in slow motion, accompanied...

Former European boxing champion Santiago Rojas has been completely disconnected from the world of boxing for several years. He now works at a small...

The Black Album places scrutiny on the notion of "Black Excellence" in a revisionist take.

Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance

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

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

"Thornton's magnum opus, this ongoing and open-ended serial follows its two improvisatory protagonists, children “raised by technology,”...

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

CRISP., wherein a jealous man's attempt to steal a delicious apple crisp causes reality to break down and begins a chain of events leading to an...

A fascinating case of narrative deconstruction, THE SUICIDE SQUEEZE is a '40s style whodunit pressed through the wringer of an optical printer.

Profile of the late iconoclastic director Curtis Harrington, featuring images from many of his poetic and haunting films.

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s travels in 1981, this short captures scenes from Stockholm. The footage was later included in his 2003 compilation...

Restore the classical definition of planet! Bring back planet Pluto! The solar system is twelve!

This apocalyptic linguistic comedy meditates on the relationship between language, meaning and social decay and is scripted from "double-speak"...