Avant Garde Movies

Though best known for his collage films, Lawrence Jordan here makes exquisite study of the different aspects of light lilting through the early...

A lone wind ensemble musician photographs an ongoing performance as she's suddenly joined by a past lover.

Obscure signs portend a looming, indecipherable slump. An oracular decoding of the landscape.

Sitting on a promenade in nice with a sign: Watch me, that’s all.

A minimalist monochromatic film frame is projected through a glass pane fogged via a humidification system. The planular drift of the projected frame...

A young woman works as a waitress in a diner. Her relationship with her boyfriend is unfulfilling and to further complicate things she is obsessed...

This apocalyptic linguistic comedy meditates on the relationship between language, meaning and social decay and is scripted from "double-speak"...

A thrillingly lo-fi salute to the old-school, hand-crafted special effects that were once a mainstay of pre-CGI science-fiction films.

Han closes a trilogy that began with Ere erera baleibu... (1968) and continued with Impressions en haute atmosphère (1991), which goes from...

A disgruntled bank teller’s system before the mornings commute.

This film is composed of three sections created to accompany a piece of music (by Barbara Feldman) on a Homeric poem.

MAN AND WOMAN shows full body shots of a naked man and woman shot from above without movement. They are shown alone as well as together, one over (or...

An early impressionist short featuring a woman who dreams of, and escapes into, an autumn forest.

Elaborate petal-like and multicolored flowers rising in white space until the whole field is as if crushed by floral designs in madly-swift mixtures...

A lonesome man at the threshold of death finds himself trapped in a place called the Endless.

I spent a day inside a small abandoned military fort by the sea. With the tide went up and down, I appeared and disappeared into the water.

A couple stroll through a wintry landscape - Is this a dream? Is this Heaven?

An abstract experimental short film from Jordan Belson.

Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance

A short film directed by the Argentine filmmaker Ernesto Baca