Movies: Avant garde

Experimental film by Motoharu Jonouchi comprised of both archival footage from the 1960s Japanese student riots and dramatised re-enactions. It was created as a tribute to Michiko Kamba, a student victim of the riots....

A homogeneous structure of wind and light across tree branches in the South region of Isère...

Two young men and two girls on a moonlit night confess to each other in their strange fantasies and loves that go beyond the usual standards.. The impetus to making the film was the book of the same name by the Russian religious philosopher Vasily R...

A man comes home to find a mysterious box on his living room floor....

The Black Album places scrutiny on the notion of "Black Excellence" in a revisionist take....

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

"In this experimental film from 1969 the seeds are seen of my exploration of the mouth motif, which reached its full expression in the ‘Opening’ exhibit of 1973. I blow on and kiss a mirror, I apply lipstick, I transform into a white statue and paint...

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

Demonstrates the visual logic (and illogic) of sign combining with limited movements of camera for panning and zooming....

A short experimental film dedicated to Polish artist Wacław Szpakowski (1883–1973)....

A gloomy tale or a completely innocent family picnic on the open air ......

For us, a thought always presupposes a society, a culture and above all the consciousness of time. We are haunted by immortality, human notion par excellence. As if the world was here to fascinate us. And to disappoint us. The film travels around the...

“Geometric animation made entirely by sculptural methods: cutting, punching, welding colored leader. HETERODYNE is related to some of my other work as RNA to a protein or polypeptide. It was made in abject (if blissful) ignorance of Paul Sharits’ ear...

Lumiere's The Arrival Of A Train in Russian....

"From the 1969 exhibition, Bride in the Bath is shown in its sculptural form – a life cast of a model's body lying back in a bath and draped in black silk coated in resin. The footage is cut with film I shot of a model lying back in a bath in which b...

Three images of a person running in the void through the movement of speed and abstract images...

Film by Robert Todd...

A collage more than a diary using images as artifacts that reflect processes. Sounds often come from other rooms, altered by their distance and the spaces that they have come through, just as the images themselves reflect the history of their own alt...

From Pompeii to Xenia puts in echo times of innocence struck by disaster: the lightning tornado which had beaten down on the American city of Xénia in 1974 answers, at thousands of kilometers in distance and centuries apart, the mythical eruption of ...

A musical audiovisual journey in four parts. A young man finds himself unexpectedly taking an audiovisual odyssey into a world of surreality, slowly recounting his memories, revealing the puzzle pieces that led him to where he is, and maybe how he ca...