Avant Garde Movies

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

"This film was part of my thesis presentation at Chelsea College of Art in 1969. It expresses my interest in the human form and how two human forms...

An experimental short inspired by the music of Gladys Knight.

Aquarius is a film about horoscopes and hope, and coping with everyday life.

After five years of intense work on identity, an alchemical quest for the depths, after nine films and films / actions where the actresses' gestures...

Short film by Paul Clipson from the Celluloid Sketches & Watercolor Movies DVD

Three lives caught in limbo between dreams, reality, and oblivion.

Experimental film by Motoharu Jonouchi comprised of both archival footage from the 1960s Japanese student riots and dramatised re-enactions. It was...

Short experimental 16mm film.

“Sequences of space-time manipulation that raise the problem of continuity in the shot.” - Yo Ota

Goodbye Philippines surveys an undead landscape, textured by phantoms. It is as if this feeling of a legacy regards tradition and cultural custom as...

Short avant garde film. Views of rippling water.

In this meditation on contemporary race relations, two black men discuss in voiceover certain “casual” events in life and cinema that are...

From the first kiss to breakup, Almy and Hammer record their relationship on a reel-to-reel ¾” tape recorder and microphone. Winner of...

Persian Series #11 begins with a "window" of yellow paint adrift in the full frame of multicolored paint-shapes. Alternating black-space/white-space...

This film was created as a gift for our loved ones while we were all in isolation. The sole utility of the piece is to brighten up your day and to...

A meditation on light and water; landscape as self-portraiture.

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

“The visual harmony of the landscape is disturbed by a screen that allows us to see into the distance (television). The film is composed of six...

This film is made by some beautiful and unique alchemical transformations of the film material itself. It is a visual expedition into the world of...