Avant Garde Movies

A photogram, used previously only within art photography, is adapted to create abstract moving patterns.

Against a backdrop of electrocution, dominance, and scientific precision, wasps nest in an abandoned refrigerator, eyelashes flutter, curtains blow...

3-D is a hand-painted experimental short film by Riley Hogan. Acrylic paint, ink and scratching were used to animate on clear Super 8mm film leader.

Twenty images of a camera running next to a chemical platform and capturing abstract light throught improvised gestures and asymmetrical motion

"Ryuta is 5 years old. Even though he is my son, I sometimes wonder what this small person is to me. Even though I see his joys and sadnesses and...

Caspar Stracke replicates Jill Godmilow's replica of Harun Faroci's film "Inextinguishable Fire."

Filmed in a decaying housing estate in east London, "Rhythm 06" renders the outer trappings of internal collapse, a choreography of layers of the...

Made in 1969. 1min. 16mm. Black and White

A small portrait of the volatility of intimacy and of breaking free from abusive cycles: made in response to a year of collapsing relationships and...

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

A silent evocation of perception and memory; an attempt to navigate the flotsam of elliptical impressions, earthly phenomena and dreamed images that...

The first film made by Markopoulos after moving to Europe, Bliss was shot over the course of two days using only available light to create a lyrical...

POSTCARD FROM SAN MIGUEL is perhaps the most mystical of all the films from Lawrence Jordan's "Odyssey" triptych. On the surface, it is merely a...

An exploration of the space where femininity and criminality collide. The film collages archival footage clips culled from silent films, original...

Die Schachtel (The Box), 1968. 35mm film transfer to videotape, black-and-white, sound; 29 minutes.

The story tracks the unhealthy and abusive relationship between an unnamed man and his wife in the days following his return to north eastern...

Many white interruptive frames and absolutely straight-edged multi-colored lines amidst "clouds" of color, finally thickened into blobs with lengthy...

A group of leftist activists expose the exploitation of immigrant workers by a criminal network with connections to local government officials. The...

Two lego space cowboys fight for survival. After one of them dies, a mysterious space man walks into the fight, he's riding an Iron Man Space Ship....