Movies: Avant garde

"Ad Vice consists of a succession of colored projection surfaces with segments of text from the worlds of advertising, sport and popular culture." - Anita De Groot...

Water for Maya is a hand-painted work which came into being during a film interview with Martina Kudlacek about Maya Deren. There was a sudden recognition of Maya’s intrinsic love of water and thus of all Mayan liquidity in magic conjunction, reflect...

Flashing lights illuminate black faces and dark eyes, oscillating between darkness and inverted lightness....

An avant-garde "experimental anthropological poem" from France....

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...

A Week in the Hole chronicles a factory employee’s adjusting to the materials, time, space and personnel during his first day of work....

Many white interruptive frames and absolutely straight-edged multi-colored lines amidst "clouds" of color, finally thickened into blobs with lengthy white (clear leader) spacing between them....

A film interpretation of a poem by Vincent Katz....

To summon the third eye awakening, we should not agitate the surface of the mind and physical eye, but soothe and provoke the third eye to awaken. In the gap of time, the flame of images that rise and become eternity is forming the rhythm and the spe...

In Burlesque, the young journalist and film critic Kucera concocted a playful mixture of Surrealist trick shots and newsreel material to express his pacifist sentiments through hidden poetic associations....

The film is an allegory in which the attempt is made to show the inner process of movement of the composer's soul at the time of the birth of music....

I spent a day inside a small abandoned military fort by the sea. With the tide went up and down, I appeared and disappeared into the water....

Christmas Eve in rapid camera....

(1970) color; 3 min....

Staggeringly simple films: a man itching his back, a man thinking, a man yawning, but like the works of Samuel Beckett, these minute gestures stand in as grand statements of the human condition, akin to the films of Bas Jan Ader and Marcel Broodthaer...

Early short by Peter Gidal....

A portrait of Eric de Kuyper....

The Futurist is a condensed experience of film viewing, a single 360 degree animated shot in an empty 1920’s cinema where the sound becomes a cacophony of past projections and the aural experience is closer to that of the projectionist than the audie...

The story is the closure, the film is how pain and anxiety are carried by the wind. There is no use trying to exert control, it only causes the pain/anxiety to linger. It must run its natural course. The Mistral can be beautiful and terrible, if it c...

This film concentrated the crystal energy of earth nature, expended the trace and texture of mote. It try to use powerful flicker image to tune up the electro magnetic field in human brain, activate the imagination of receivers, and pass on the infor...