Movies: Avant garde

Following an introduction which establishes the social context of the film, ‘The Politics of Perception’ presents a one-minute promotional film advertising a popular Hollywood thriller. This section then repeats itself: a print is generated from the ...

Speaking upon the release of ‘Bodyguard’, Black Dahlia said: “Bodyguard is a theatrical exploration of gaining a new body but your soul remains. It is a sonnet to your past physical body in this realm and the new union that will inevitably be formed....

An experimental film featuring a split screen. On the right, a number of people appear moving upwards - symbolizing the ruling class. On the left, we see a production line in a factory, where the products of human labor pass by. Towards the end, the ...

An old man (artist and landscape architect Bevis Bawa) contemplates the Garden of Eden....

Ivan Ladislav hides a true chamber of wonders behind the clear, mathematically abstract structure of his films and videos, meticulously compiled rhythmically frame for frame, each work likewise presenting an analysis of the film medium. Concealed the...

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

A short experimental film; "An hommage to silent movies"....

TAPESTRY, part of Lawrence Jordan's "Odyssey" triptych and filmed much later in Jordan's life, is a charged record of his bachelor life after marriage and child-rearing....

Light painting and nature imagery are captured in 13 shots of different points of luminescence, on the 13th anniversary of Schwartz’s mother’s passing, and as a homage to Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s personal 'In a Year with Thirteen Moons' (1978)....

An experience of a camera swinging in different gestures facing the optical distortion of the Sun. The last appearance of the smudge....

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

Adopting mainly hand contact printing with photographic enlarger, «Metaphysics of sound» started from September of 2006 and completed in July of 2007. With a 35mm soundtrack image, I made a hand-drawn soundtrack on the 16mm film strip. The sounds wer...

An experimental portrayal of being adrift in a daydream....

Dementia draws a woman into a world of memory loops, losing her love her spirit, her present her past....

In the small town of Ethham, strange goings on have been occurring and the only people who know are the young adolescents of the town. Will they either team up together to solve the mystery or will they not be bothered at all....

Paleo is a video clip shoot at the famous homonymous music festival in the French canton of Vaud in Switzerland, where many hippie-techno-pagans gather every summer since 1977. The editing style is a tribute to the reworking of psychedelic theories a...

Several fragments of one day in Leningrad in the autumn of 1989, refracted in the imagination of the artist....

A visually provoking short film about one of the most extreme homosexual practices....

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 apartment. Paramount apparently never got round to including the filmmakers in any newsreel, but their...

Meet 5000 space aliens in 5000 seconds in this bonkers animated film....