Movies: Avant garde

One room, two half bodies, a silent relationship....

An experimental short....

A symbolic rape by the Devil and a renewal of self worth....

An eight-minute work filmed on 35mm film, Collage d’Hollywood explores the materiality of the film medium in a literal way. Collage is assembled from movie trailers found at a deserted drive-in cinema, and explores onscreen sex and violence...

This black-and-white nightmare gives Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale
of the dark id a campy, gender-flipping treatment reminiscent of George Kuchar’s works. Quaffing some chemical homebrew in her personal laboratory (like everything here, a "se...

“The ‘exhibition’ held by ‘artist’ Katsuhiro Fujimura in Tokyo during the very hot summer of 2013 was one that made viewers suffer. The ‘painting’ that stood leaning against the window had very faint colors and regular scratches that could not be see...

“This film was made for an event that included an exhibition of artwork by Eishi Yamatomo. Yamatomo’s metal sculpture is often finished with a chromium plating, which reflects its surroundings. For this project, I tried to obtain the image of a metal...

“Sequences of space-time manipulation that raise the problem of continuity in the shot.” - Yo Ota...

A recollection of almost 40 years of career. A giant image-jukebox, from early 70s autoportrait to films for Alain Bashung / Elli Medeiros, private karaokes to “video sculptures” applied to John Travolta or Maria Callas, and much much more…...

Vast horizons and hollow landscapes. Figures in funeral gowns swaying from reality. Withering within without wunnienuther, we wandered windswept as heartswept....

Edited but not printed. Filmed in Zurich. Original reversal film deposted in Temenos Archive, Zurich....

This section is very similar to Prelude 4 except that it is composed of extremely thin-lined colors and sharply delineated shapes which are constantly interrupted by "cloud"-like forms....

16mm film by Bojan Jovanović....

Brakhage begins here with Carlsbad Caverns as a stand-in for Plato's Cave and then responds to the philosopher's notion of inaccessible ideal forms by seeking out imagery that evokes worlds we cannot see....