Avant Garde Movies

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

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

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

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.

“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...

Vast horizons and hollow landscapes. Figures in funeral gowns swaying from reality. Withering within without wunnienuther, we wandered windswept...

Edited but unprinted. Filmed in Paris. Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

“It’s not my memory of it” is a documentary about secrecy, memory, and documents. A former CIA source recounts his disappearance...

A short experimental film; "An hommage to silent movies".

#13, glancing, or avoiding.

Light, colour, abstraction, perception, hallucination: a few concerns closely akin to those of ETANT DONNÉS which, however, do not amount to...

An old man (artist and landscape architect Bevis Bawa) contemplates the Garden of Eden.

Subtitled “Eros in Psyche” and set to a composition by Tomaso Albinoni, Lawrence Jordan’s rapturous live action short contemplates...

A monkey paces inside a cage: visually, the short film confines itself to this stark simplicity, yet its message resonates deeply. It draws on...

For five grueling years, Li Ning documents his struggle to achieve success as an avant-garde artist while contending with the pressures of modern...

Based on Plato's dialogue Charmides.

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

"Single Frame sequences of TV or film images, with periodic distortions of the image. The images are airplanes, women men interspersed with pictures...

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