Avant Garde Movies

  • 2017
    Madhouse Mitchel

    Madhouse Mitchel

    Madhouse Mitchel

    02017HD

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

    Madhouse Mitchel
  • 1988
    Black Celebration

    Black Celebration

    Black Celebration

    01988HD

    This engaged reading of the urban black riots of the 1960s references Guy Debord’s Situationist text, “The Decline and Fall of the...

    Black Celebration
  • 2011
    Tape

    Tape

    Tape

    02011HD

    For five grueling years, Li Ning documents his struggle to achieve success as an avant-garde artist while contending with the pressures of modern...

    Tape
  • 2022
    Hâl

    Hâl

    Hâl

    1.52022HD

    An artist strives to achieve a state of pure existence. Caught between inertia and movement, her body strains, adapts, and responds to what is...

    Hâl
  • 1981
    Temps Topologique

    Temps Topologique

    Temps Topologique

    01981HD

    “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...

    Temps Topologique
  • 2018
    Frozen Ghosts

    Frozen Ghosts

    Frozen Ghosts

    02018HD

    This is an abstract film of a dream. It is a dream of paranoia, schizophrenia, manic-depression, and anxiety.

    Frozen Ghosts
  • 2023
    bleared eyes of blue glass

    bleared eyes of blue glass

    bleared eyes of blue glass

    02023HD

    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...

    bleared eyes of blue glass
  • 1968
    Welcome to Come

    Welcome to Come

    Welcome to Come

    01968HD

    Welcome to Come, which depicts a somewhat mysterious transformation of the image in the course of a single zoom, was my only film to achieve a small...

    Welcome to Come
  • 2000
    The Glass System

    The Glass System

    The Glass System

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    “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 Glass System
  • 2020
    SOLVE et COAGULA

    SOLVE et COAGULA

    SOLVE et COAGULA

    02020HD

    The ancient Thracian bard Orpheus laments ever for his lost love Eurydice. Having returned from the Underworld in his attempts to retrieve her, he...

    SOLVE et COAGULA
  • 1977
    The Heavens

    The Heavens

    The Heavens

    01977HD

    "The Heavens"–Symmetrical chaos envelops a lone, topless man, whose symmetrical abstractions conjure up a psychadelic version of DaVinci's...

    The Heavens
  • 2022
    Votive

    Votive

    Votive

    02022HD

    Shifting market trends force the hand of a career artist into adopting a new style.

    Votive
  • 2020
    Farewell to the Seashore

    Farewell to the Seashore

    Farewell to the Seashore

    02020HD

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

    Farewell to the Seashore
  • 2012
    Nebukawa

    Nebukawa

    Nebukawa

    02012HD

    “There was an art event at a closed school, Kataura Junior High School, in Nebukawa, Kanagawa Prefecture. If I did not participate in this...

    Nebukawa
  • 1996
    Prelude 7

    Prelude 7

    Prelude 7

    6.31996HD

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

    Prelude 7
  • 1982
    Hotel Cartograph

    Hotel Cartograph

    Hotel Cartograph

    01982HD

    The movements across the 2-dimensional space, and in and out of elevators through 3-dimensional space, suggest a conceptual map of the visible...

    Hotel Cartograph
  • 1994
    Scattering Stars

    Scattering Stars

    Scattering Stars

    71994HD

    A paean to light, a glittering bodice of a film that rapturously unfolds its subject with a shimmering luminosity.

    Scattering Stars
  • 2025
    The Aqueduct of Seyssuel

    The Aqueduct of Seyssuel

    The Aqueduct of Seyssuel

    02025HD

    Five fragments of observation and sensations during a journey with Gorneton's trail in Seyssuel, Isère. A work-in-progress with sounds, the...

    The Aqueduct of Seyssuel
  • 2007
    Entr'acte

    Entr'acte

    Entr'acte

    02007HD

    A side table and a chest of drawers (played by actors in ingenious soft-sculpture costumes) indulge in a bit of passive-aggressive furniture moving....

    Entr'acte
  • 2016
    Night Awake

    Night Awake

    Night Awake

    4.82016HD

    To summon the third eye awakening, we should not agitate the surface of the mind and physical eye, but soothe and provoke the third eye to awaken. In...

    Night Awake