Avant Garde Movies

"Fears and thrills... Part structure (the centerpoint): part improvisation."

This, the third of the Sexual Meditation Series, might also be seen as a triangular portrait of Julia and P. Adams Sitney and Jane Brakhage.

Short film about a unique girl who was once a talented piano player turned idol, but one day she quietly vanished. Since then, no one has known her...

A dark and visceral journey. A language that tears apart the morbid nature of the dead-old primal human eyes. No warning was given. No mercy was...

Judith Wardwell’s satirical take on America’s sanitation obsession and sexually repressive Puritanism

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...

A dark formless body moves . Formlessness of an entity is because a constant change in form is perceived as formless

trees and other things...

Avant-garde short focused on the pure elements of film like form, visual composition, and rhythm.

The poet's dreams a maiden's bubbles through edifices of forest and eclectic contagion.

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

In this film-poem Browzan illustrates his experience living in Berlin between 2016-17. Browzan uses collage, still photography, video and boomerangs...

a collection of different shots comprised a fictionalized, but highly detailed of the america's west. where civilization meets nature in an illusion...

This piece represents a kind of autobiographical vision. I use myself to create all the figures, sometimes employing masks from the Noh theater to...

Shenzhen River (the border btw Hong Kong and Shenzhen), and the Second Line of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (the border between Socialism China and...

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...

Interplay of toned rectangular shapes, vertical and horizontal and diagonal lines in juxtaposition with hardened darker shapes which gradually shift...

The Beat poet Chuck Miller traveled blind to Inner Mongolia, and he met a shoe repair guy......

From 1967-71 Barry Spinello made films without camera or tape recorder by hand drawing both sound and picture directly onto clear 16mm leader. His...

3-D is a hand-painted experimental short film by Riley Hogan. Acrylic paint, ink and scratching were used to animate on clear Super 8mm film leader.