Avant Garde Movies

3-minute experimental animation based on the techniques of John Whitney.

Following an introduction which establishes the social context of the film, ‘The Politics of Perception’ presents a one-minute...

Jon Rafman's short features computer-generated renders of the Twin Towers and a narration from Charles Baudelaire's "Le Guignon."

Collective experimental film by Team 8mm TENGOKU.

An experimental drama that spins the tale of a woman, her sister, and the man who completes the triangle. Told through such fertile sources as grand...

Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet, an essayist, a philosopher, and a leader of...

Spring comes every year and brings us hope for recovery and development. But time is inexorable and fleeting. Not for everyone will come next spring...

Modified flashlights and stripped down video projectors explore the visual complexities of the ordinary world: a tunnel, a clump of grass, a...

a haiku films, a poem by Nha Thuyen

A woman is stalked by a mysterious hooded spectre. An Autumnal homage to and inspired by Meshes of the Afternoon by Maya Deren.

Melting shows the natural monostructural disintegration of a strawberry sundae, its passage from rigidity to softness, from edibility to waste. The...

The romantic relationship between a man and a woman.

A watchman at an apartment complex in Assam, India, spends an ordinary evening. A surreal, expressionistic landscape unfolds.

A gloomy tale or a completely innocent family picnic on the open air ...

A psychedelic, avant-garde collage film designed to accompany PRPL PPL's experimental album of the same name.

Captures the avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusamas creative process as she diligently works to complete her series of 50 large monochrome drawings. As her...

On a sleepy summer night in 2004, eyes peer into the world-wide-web: traveling between conspiracy sites, malware, porn, and mp3 databases in an...

a one-reel experiment - part-'flicker film,' part-stop motion - shot on 16mm.

A reworking of the myth of Hippolytus, in which a chaste youth rejects the incestuous advances of his mother and is saved from death by a caring...

A brief and experimental ode to the humble dandelion, shot on 16mm developed using an eco-processor made of dandelions.