Avant Garde Movies

Staggeringly simple films: a man itching his back, a man thinking, a man yawning, but like the works of Samuel Beckett, these minute gestures stand...

(Always) Next to Me is a 16mm film that pairs abstract sequences of plants developed directly on the film emulsion with intertitles briefly...

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

Drawing together footage, photographs and texts from archival sources as well as the artist’s personal collection of materials, Yto...

These two films investigate frustrations in loving, DAYBREAK with a girl as object, WHITEYE with the camera as subject. Preserved by the Academy...

The ocean, the trees, the varieties of cityscape and landscape assert themselves as "pictures", but the images are essentially a wash and tangle of...

An experimental non-linear horror film portraying several surreal scenes of grotesque and violent acts

An experimental portrayal of being adrift in a daydream.

A foolish shadow attempts to behave like a real entity but the irony takes place

The Storm in the Morning is an autobiographical film. It blends digital, natural, and cultural worlds to build a multidimensional narrative where...

Many white interruptive frames and absolutely straight-edged multi-colored lines amidst "clouds" of color, finally thickened into blobs with lengthy...

Experimental short film about the fragility of time

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

An experimental short.

A bursting of mostly golden light forms as if heralding sunlight itself in their hurried (single-frame) display.

An experimental video collage piece that investigates the concept of self-destruction across genres, eras, and cultures. Features footage from Abbas...

A kinetic prayer and structuralist intervention. Shot entirely on an iPhone 11 in a desolate Midwest laundromat, 108 spin documents the mechanics of...

Surrendering the mind to the hypnotic dance of fire, a candle's glimmer reveals dreamlike memories, illustrated by flickering fragments of...

Amateur footage of a young couple on a trip.

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