Avant Garde Movies

In What’s Ours and What We Are, images, motifs and words that originally served a particular political agenda are playfully manipulated to...

A meditation on time and its effect on memory. About the rocks the sea tries to drag away from the shore, towards the ocean, with every wave.

Starting from frame by frame in-camera editing, the film translates a nursery garden from Chillán into a filmic landscape, with a rhythm and...

Common Mistakes uses four synonyms for the word "mistake" (fallacy, error, accident, and blunder) to present a sample of widely held "truths" that...

Imported (1999) is about three methods of ridding collard and kale greens of a pesky insect.

Around the sleeping bodies, some presences occupy the architecture and move around the space in obscure activities: nothing of their actions is...

A man tells the story about his trip to Inner Mongolia.

An experimental short.

A symbolic rape by the Devil and a renewal of self worth.

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

"Thornton's magnum opus, this ongoing and open-ended serial follows its two improvisatory protagonists, children “raised by technology,”...

Edited but not printed. Filmed in Zurich. Original reversal film deposted in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

"A sequence shot explores from attic to celler a large residence that, for the time being, is emptied out of its inhabitants. Their habits are...

"The work Everytown deals with futuristic models from science, literature and film at the beginning of the 20th century. The focus lies on the social...

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

This section is very similar to Prelude 4 except that it is composed of extremely thin-lined colors and sharply delineated shapes which are...

A married woman has an affair. She gets pregnant by her lover and they live serenely together, although war is thundering towards their city. Despite...

16mm film by Bojan Jovanović.

Brakhage begins here with Carlsbad Caverns as a stand-in for Plato's Cave and then responds to the philosopher's notion of inaccessible ideal forms...