Avant Garde Movies

Chopin "Nocturnes" accompany this study in black and white inspired by Huysman's decadent novel "À rebours".

Scientists and philosophers work to understand animal vision in this multi textured rumination exploring our relationship to the nonhuman world.

Made in 1969. 1min. 16mm. Black and White

In Pareidolia, analog abstract patterns made on 16mm film are used as source material for finding similar figurative images, interpreted by an online...

An argument unfolds in the midst of everything else that has ever happened.

A poetic exploration of the presence and absence of a mother.

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

"Twigs" of color in space, and pure white "ghosts" of them in the background interspersed with dark amalgams of these and conglomerate forms. The...

Chases within chases. A mother runs after a child. A man seems to be pursuing himself. A woman who has been nibbling her lipstick through half of the...

A hand-painted film photographically step-printed so that the thicket-like lines of paint are “played-off” against some centered...

A flickering survey of worlds both urban and botanical. The frame as an unsettled space, a centre that cannot hold, suspended in its own vertigo....

Lifting and holding up a chest of drawers.

Short experimental film.

Influenced by abstract expressionism, a series of black and white high-contrast positive episodes characterized by intense bursts of light and deep...

“This film offers a metacinematic study of tempo and change and a figure of velocity. […] Ota recorded [three different locations in...

“The Glass System, made from images shot in New York and Calcutta, looks at life as it is played out in the streets. Every corner turned...

The "bleared eyes of blue glass" in the title of this experimental short expand on a verbal image from Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves, considered...

Portrait of the streets from downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul.

The third part of director Seth Tyler Black’s Portraits triptych, A Portrait: A Dance is a meditation on an artist’s struggle between...