Avant Garde Movies

An experimental collage film pieced together from random bits of 16mm film strips.

A correctional officer’s daily routine of gaining access into a correctional facility.

From Pompeii to Xenia puts in echo times of innocence struck by disaster: the lightning tornado which had beaten down on the American city of...

Architectural distortions of the second city.

Prelude 10 is a double-printed film with an extreme mixture of darks shot thru with jewel-like bursts of color, and very white bursts of light and...

Polish avant-garde animation in which a periodic series of aggressive starbursts interrupt the melodic dancing of fluid shapes, one raid even...

In "The Lead Shoes", we can neither thrust in our eyes nor our ears to help us understand how time flows or how space is. Therefore, Peterson forces...

Christmas Eve in rapid camera.

A film constructed from a succession of drawings on old books.

"In this experimental film from 1969 the seeds are seen of my exploration of the mouth motif, which reached its full expression in the...

A film interpretation of a poem by Vincent Katz.

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

Interplay of mostly horizontal lines inter-woven with "watermark" forms in a wide variety of tones which gradually tend to dissolve into blues at the...

This film takes its cue from that ultimate situation of Sex/Med/masturbation - the loft-and-lonely hotel room. It is thus easily twice the length and...

The C-list TV actor Jonnie Zhang decides to change career as an estate agent. While preparing for the interview, he hires a cleaner to tidy up his...

Philosophical excerpts breaking the rules of language overlapped with footage of nature, inscrutable voice recordings, strange noises, and classical...

Video project dubbed "an Opera without Words" made by the experimental, avant-garde band Tuxedomoon.