Movies: Avant garde

A Sunday walk in a forest turns into a poetic journey on perception....

Twenty-four images of a camera running in the woods, a moonlight and a cemetery through improvised gestures, mechanical abstraction and saturated colors...

Part of a trio of films that also includes ADAGIO and WINTER LIGHT, IN A SUMMER GARDEN "draws much of its power from the way it is constructed and the ways it deals with images... [T]he camera pans and pauses, almost passively looks at the fields of ...

An early impressionist short featuring a woman who dreams of, and escapes into, an autumn forest....

"The video "Between the ocean" is a juxtaposition of interior and exterior spaces in Japan that are somehow connected. The material for this video montage was recorded in Japan in fall 2013 in Tokyo, Fukushima and Tohoku regions." - Claudia Larcher...

Exploring impressionistic, emotional and sensory environments found within the vast natural and urban landscapes of America. Neither image nor sound takes precedence: the two interact and combine preserving a raw sense of the discovery that field rec...

Tugging Diary documents a footbridge over a year between August 2019 to January 2021. Due to social unrest and the uncertainty of various immediate happenings, both the internet and physical spaces act as critical communication platforms of its own d...

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A silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lovemaking between Schneemann and her then partner, composer James Tenney; observed by the cat, Kitch....

A poetic journey from the darkness of dawn into the brightness of the midday sun in the American South. Filmed over the course of six months on one bus route in Durham, North Carolina, this film is a celebration of light and a meditation on leaving....

Experimental short uses Ray Charles' “What'd I Say” as accompaniment to constantly shifting collage of female nude, cartoons, and newsreels of atomic bomb explosions....

"Minus" is a fiction and at the same time experimental movie, which doesn't enjoy any distinct geography, language and time. The events occur in a razor producing company, in which a young and simple retainer is working, who has special capabilities....

Filmed in Berlin, July 1990. Images of workers taking down the wall and street peddlers selling pieces of it to make a living....

A particular day of a samurai...

How would a found footage film look if the footage was never found? This conceptual art experiment questions the very nature of film and cinema while serving as an ironic tribute to the found footage horror pop culture. The found footage format provi...

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In 1969, the painter-sculptor Daniel Pommereulle made his third film, this one financed by Sylvina Boissonnas. Although only a short, Vite was one of the most costly of all the Zanzibar productions. It features, for instance, shots of the moon taken ...

A short film, shot in a long take, interpreted, drawn and directed by Jean-Louis Bompoint, with the precious collaboration of Hélène Bromberg; but especially Henri Alekan, who was the Director of Photography of the film....

A surreal musical comedy set in a world where the avant-garde and the mainstream are reversed....

Sky and walls, a liana of water pipes, dilapidated backyards, cracks in walls, cracked walls full of lost, enigmatic children's signs, rusty railway station grounds, deserts, within them the figures, not conformed to the environment in their sightles...