Avant Garde Movies

Images of concrete and stone. A cemetery. Light making its way through the tree leaves.

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

The film is about the deceleration of motion in linear form and speed, establishing a connection between space and love. It ends with high-contrast...

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...

Creeping from the halls of the maze brain, corruption and terror is woven by devils born from the denied errors of mankind.

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

Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance

This film was shot on Super-8 by Derek Jarman in 1977 and is considered to be the inspiration for Jubilee. Jarman often showed his films silent or...

A city symphony of kinetic movement in the concrete jungle. A cacophony of textures, layers and surfaces moving in unison and discord yearning for an...

Psyche 1947, made while a student at USC, shows Markopoulos’ developing style and his sensuous use of colour and composition. Shot in the...

Attempt of the artist's detached view of what is happening in the world.

Caspar Stracke replicates Jill Godmilow's replica of Harun Faroci's film "Inextinguishable Fire."

“The structure of human vision is the visual knowledge of the world. Individuals do not visually understand the world through the eyes, but...

Directly in the tradition of SEXUAL MEDITATION #1: Motel, this "sequel" does explore further possibilities of nudes in a room. - Canyon Cinema

A journey through a composite galaxy of artificial light.

A particular day of a samurai

Arf Arf is a sound poetry (voice and gesticulation) group. They describe their first film together as 'songs nailed together in a film'. The film is...

“One can not speak of time as a thing in itself. It is movements and variations that give the feeling of time. Men have always linked time and...

Experimental short film.

OPEN FIELD is in the mind, of course, and exists as a weave of trees, grasses, waters, and bodies poised and fleeting at childhood's end. The scene...