Movies: Avant garde

One film projected two times with a difference of a couple of seconds....

Migrating by sea from Holland as an eight-year-old, Dirk de Bruyn went on to be a doyen of Australian experimental cinema. But as this intimate film reveals, his work is suffused with the trauma of migration, and the struggle to recognise himself as ...

An abstract experimental short film from Jordan Belson....

A photogram, used previously only within art photography, is adapted to create abstract moving patterns....

An experimental video collage piece that investigates the concept of self-destruction across genres, eras, and cultures. Features footage from Abbas Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry (1997), Satyajit Ray's Apur Sansar (1959), Charlie Chaplin's City Lights...

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An unseen character observes the cold, harsh world around them while listening to The Beach Boys, hidden away in the safety of their bedroom....

3-minute experimental animation based on the techniques of John Whitney....

A short film shot in 8mm. Directed and shot by Kevin Schaefer....

The Possible Fog of Heaven is a consideration of the dimensionality of metaphysics and the metaphysics of dimensionality. Elvis speaks for the first time from the afterlife, describing in voice over and graphic text, his experience in Heaven. The Str...

Divided into 26 parts, an attempt to remake James Benning's film, YouTube (2011) with similar internet footage after 13 years....

A film motivated by nothing (but daily life and (my) vision). It represents nothing, it signifies nothing. There’s no hidden meaning, no defined subject, no predetermined objective. Inside and outside. Just angles, textures and flashes of color. A w...

An experimental work that explores sound and vision as an emotional response system....

An intimate and introspective experimental film in which the author's anxious manias and worries are presented visually, without the need for sound. The movement of her fingers and mouth, both tearing the skin, accompanied by the images of her eyes s...

A young adult's first-hand account of "accidentally becoming human again" after, and with, trauma induced depression. Lo-fi, vulnerable, and uniquely youthful, "The Afterlife" is a melancholic affirmation of life after death....

Burn flowers burn ,as dreams.Dreams burn down like they were never meant to bloom....

The events following a surreal network hijacking thrust several characters into a crisis of existential proportions. Leading them on a collision course of human consciousness, technological evolution, and divine horror where fragmented identities dis...

A love story recounted not by them, but by their belongings and surroundings....

Experimental short film about the fragility of time...

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