Avant Garde Movies

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

Director Lam Can-Zhao leads a small film crew as they shoot a film about a stray dog in the streets of Guangzhou, leading viewers into an...

An avant-garde film presented as part of an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. From MoMA's catalog: "For the monumental installation Play Dead;...

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

Based on Plato's dialogue Charmides.

A correctional officer’s daily routine of gaining access into a correctional facility.

Short film made with underexposed video footage.

Footage filmed in Spain, subjected a new visual effects process. Deslaw devoted himself to the discovery of a new machine that enabled film to be...

The life of painter, dancer and poet Mark Turbyfill, seen in his 70th year, is evoked through Markopoulos’ unique form of cinematic portraiture.

Initially commissioned to accompany a Danish production of Alban Berg’s LULU, Lewis Klahr’s cut-out animation refigures the opera's...

"1969 period. In the beginning of this experimental film a figure in white ascends spiral staircases and escalators and moves away from the camera...

A (barely) two minute short is that it was made specially for a Paramount newsreel segment on Bute and Nemeth making films in their teensy New York...

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

I killed two fish for this project, and made them suffer as little as possible, in order to film them and in order to eat them. Attempting to uncover...

Vanessa is based on the untimely death of Vanessa Jordan. A work about loss and Michelangelo.

The script is composed of three stories set in three different time periods and three different locations. One story takes place during an ascent of...

A wordless experimental collage of impressions and moods. Grainy fragments of landscapes, flakes whirl in the wind. Fog and mist, shadows of people...