Avant Garde Movies

An essay on the brutality of beauty and innocence in a hostile world.

Aquarius is a film about horoscopes and hope, and coping with everyday life.

An experimental short by Tao Zhou.

After five years of intense work on identity, an alchemical quest for the depths, after nine films and films / actions where the actresses' gestures...

Roger Hammond’s silent portraits of film artists from the early 1970s were shot in and around David Larcher’s studio. Some Friends begins...

Short film by Paul Clipson from the Celluloid Sketches & Watercolor Movies DVD

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

Demonstrates the visual logic (and illogic) of sign combining with limited movements of camera for panning and zooming.

16mm film negative sanded with surfboard shaping tools, sex wax melted on, squirted, dripped, splashed, sprayed and rubbed with donuts, zinc oxide,...

Three lives caught in limbo between dreams, reality, and oblivion.

Experimental film by Motoharu Jonouchi comprised of both archival footage from the 1960s Japanese student riots and dramatised re-enactions. It was...

Short experimental 16mm film.

“Sequences of space-time manipulation that raise the problem of continuity in the shot.” - Yo Ota

“It’s not my memory of it” is a documentary about secrecy, memory, and documents. A former CIA source recounts his disappearance...

Goodbye Philippines surveys an undead landscape, textured by phantoms. It is as if this feeling of a legacy regards tradition and cultural custom as...

In this meditation on contemporary race relations, two black men discuss in voiceover certain “casual” events in life and cinema that are...

Singly-printed multi-colored watery "blobs" and "feathery" streaks of painted color, dominated by yellows and reds interweaving in complexity until...

This film evolves from several years’ observation of the sexual energy which charges the world of business and the qualities of palatial...

Filmed in Zürich. For Sofía Verder "As if I had the intention to narrate things, I have saved a considerable amount of notes and...

An early video curio pitched between performance art and George Méliès’ trick films, Drawers sees Colab artist Andrea Callard...