Avant Garde Movies

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

Prelude 10 is a double-printed film with an extreme mixture of darks shot thru with jewel-like bursts of color, and very white bursts of light and...

Thick weaves of multicolored lines and dull-colored blobs play off against each other.

In December, 1941, using music by Stravinsky, this film provides a reaction to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. An egg is smashed by a hammer;...

An 1962 Avant-Garde Comedy by George Kuchar.

This short film follows a man lost in the woods driven by his fear of the unknown.

"Stanze per una giostra" is an experimental short film that traverses bucolic childhood memories and adolescent traumas using low resolution and...

A woman rocks a cradle; a man comes to land from the sea, but leaves to view it from a distance.

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

An abstract perspective into two young South African workers in the heart of Johannesburg's industrial sector during Covid-19

Hauntology of the Retrodromomania is an essayistic motion picture, a locomotory legwork, a deambulatory non-rural land survey, a casual journeying in...

Filmed in Quintay, sent to Santiago. For Claudia Muñoz. "In the rocks by the sea there is a woman watching the sun set. We read, we talk"....

Man and the Dog (2022) is a British neo avant-garde short film that plays around with the concept of speed. The pace is being constantly increased,...

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

Judith Wardwell’s satirical take on America’s sanitation obsession and sexually repressive Puritanism

"A springtime Fantasy," everything comes joyfully together in mirthful mythic warmth as Bird Lad's white line on black background richly sprouts,...

A film about endless processes. Images reappearing. New sentences being written.

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

An avant-garde "experimental anthropological poem" from France.

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