Avant Garde Movies

  • 2018
    After Dark

    After Dark

    After Dark

    02018HD

    After the electricity went off, many eyes grew from the playground.

    After Dark
  • 2003
    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8

    02003HD

    An avant-garde meditation on obsolete technology. The film is of a 1930s Rheinmetall typewriter owned by the director. The film itself is projected...

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8
  • 2000
    Esciue

    Esciue

    Esciue

    02000HD

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

    Esciue
  • 2008
    In A Year With 13 Deaths

    In A Year With 13 Deaths

    In A Year With 13 Deaths

    02008HD

    Light painting and nature imagery are captured in 13 shots of different points of luminescence, on the 13th anniversary of Schwartz’s...

    In A Year With 13 Deaths
  • 2002
    Sportello Quattro

    Sportello Quattro

    Sportello Quattro

    02002HD

    Sportello Quattro, filmed during a residency at the American Academy in Rome, is about immigration, work and community among people of color in...

    Sportello Quattro
  • 1999
    Imported

    Imported

    Imported

    01999HD

    Imported (1999) is about three methods of ridding collard and kale greens of a pesky insect.

    Imported
  • 2003
    From Pompeii to Xenia

    From Pompeii to Xenia

    From Pompeii to Xenia

    02003HD

    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...

    From Pompeii to Xenia
  • 2016
    Reflections I

    Reflections I

    Reflections I

    02016HD

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

    Reflections I
  • 2017
    The Visitors

    The Visitors

    The Visitors

    02017HD

    A stop-motion animation compiled of postcards, photographs and video shot on the Spanish island of Mallorca. This unique island has a long and...

    The Visitors
  • 2018
    A 180-Degree Revolving Cliff

    A 180-Degree Revolving Cliff

    A 180-Degree Revolving Cliff

    02018HD

    The wife lost her sense of time in the loops of life, becoming the gears of social machinery. The husband is a writer who has the spirit of...

    A 180-Degree Revolving Cliff
  • 2014
    Blue Line Chicago

    Blue Line Chicago

    Blue Line Chicago

    02014HD

    Architectural distortions of the second city.

    Blue Line Chicago
  • 2017
    Black River Falls

    Black River Falls

    Black River Falls

    02017HD

    Music by Dick Connette from his album, Too Sad for the Public Vol. 1: Oysters Ice Cream Lemonade. Suzzy Roche sings the vocal. Dick’s lyrics...

    Black River Falls
  • 2017
    Choirs of the Eye: Live at The Stone

    Choirs of the Eye: Live at The Stone

    Choirs of the Eye: Live at The Stone

    02017HD

    Filmed in August of 2015 at The Stone in New York City, Kayo Dot performed their debut album Choirs Of The Eye in its entirety for a group of fewer...

    Choirs of the Eye: Live at The Stone
  • 2017
    Time, Ago!

    Time, Ago!

    Time, Ago!

    7.32017HD

    "Time, forward!" - two orchestral suites by George Sviridov, published for the first time in 1968 (first suite) and in 1977 (second suite). The...

    Time, Ago!
  • 1976
    Double Labyrinthe

    Double Labyrinthe

    Double Labyrinthe

    6.51976HD

    With this film-manifesto, the two artists invent what they called the Cinéma corporel (Cinema of the Body), they present themselves as a...

    Double Labyrinthe
  • 1973
    Some Friends

    Some Friends

    Some Friends

    01973HD

    Roger Hammond’s silent portraits of film artists from the early 1970s were shot in and around David Larcher’s studio. Some Friends begins...

    Some Friends
  • 2005
    Big Black Square

    Big Black Square

    Big Black Square

    02005HD

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

    Big Black Square
  • 1997
    Le Mistral, Beautiful But Terrible

    Le Mistral, Beautiful But Terrible

    Le Mistral, Beautiful But Terrible

    01997HD

    The story is the closure, the film is how pain and anxiety are carried by the wind. There is no use trying to exert control, it only causes the...

    Le Mistral, Beautiful But Terrible
  • 2009
    Dahlia

    Dahlia

    Dahlia

    6.52009HD

    This work is one film of the omnibus ‘Seeing’. About ‘Seeing’: “Filmmaker Matsumoto Toshio, a pioneer of experimental...

    Dahlia
  • 1975
    Drawers

    Drawers

    Drawers

    01975HD

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

    Drawers