Movies: Avant garde

A student-produced live-action short adaptation of Richard McGuire's 6-page comic originally published in RAW magazine. The short film is about a series of events in time that happen in one point of space: the corner of a room in a normal house....

"The work Everytown deals with futuristic models from science, literature and film at the beginning of the 20th century. The focus lies on the social structures and their respective dramatisation, especially by means of new models of architecture. Ho...

A film of and through the trees. Leaves catch, consume and resist the light through the seasons....

The marks of the violence of the Chilean state, against its own compatriots. Flicker Film. 35mm B & W Still Photography. Silent....

Young boy confesses his love toward a grocery store chain in a abstract manner....

Study for Film No. 11: Mirror Animations (1957). Harry Smith described the film as, “An exposition of Buddhism and the Kaballah in the form of a collage. The final scene shows Agaric mushrooms growing on the moon while the Hero and Heroine row by on ...

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....

16mm film by Bojan Jovanović....

A sequence of 10 images presented in 10 groups of 400 alternating frames. The primary image of a bird is gradually disfigured by the successive introduction of competing imagery, yet the overall field seems to have its own life....

Short avant garde film. Views of rippling water....

"This film was presented as part of my 1969 thesis on Max Ernst. It was a personal tribute where I filmed his collages, then intercut live footage I shot with other reference material into a surreal visual collage." - Penny Slinger...

"Visionary post-war modernist Tyeb Mehta channels the nightmares of the nation in Koodal, at once the artist’s self-described “autobiography” and a profound meditation on collage, crowd control, cinematic subjectivity and the violence buried within e...

An abstract perspective into two young South African workers in the heart of Johannesburg's industrial sector during Covid-19...

Profile of the late iconoclastic director Curtis Harrington, featuring images from many of his poetic and haunting films....

Three witnesses to the invasion. Three accounts. Are they observing the same thing? Were there any warning signs? And, after all they’ve seen and heard, are they even competent to offer a reliable report? The purpose of this film is to demonstrate th...

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....

Architectural distortions of the second city....

This short film made by László Moholy-Nagy is based on the shadow patterns created by his Light-Space Modulator, an early kinetic sculpture consisting of a variety of curved objects in a carefully choreographed cycle of movements. Created in 1930, th...

A visual daydream of a late afternoon swim in the waters of a summer in Sicily....

This is a rhythmic invocation of the ancestral fire, in which dazzling flames reanimate bones and natural elements. This is the shining of colour....