Avant Garde Movies

  • 1997
    Le Mistral, Beautiful But Terrible

    Le Mistral, Beautiful But Terrible

    Le Mistral, Beautiful But Terrible

    81997HD

    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...

    Le Mistral, Beautiful But Terrible
  • 1979
    Winter

    Winter

    Winter

    01979HD

    After waiting for a bus at Fern Tree that never arrives, a clown takes refuge under the snowy rocks of Mount Wellington and frolics on the wintery...

    Winter
  • 1977
    Veil of Years

    Veil of Years

    Veil of Years

    01977HD

    Slow disintegration and aging of artists head, revealing underlying bone structure. Created using old picture-phone technology. New music added in...

    Veil of Years
  • 2020
    Perdurare

    Perdurare

    Perdurare

    02020HD

    A meditation on time and its effect on memory. About the rocks the sea tries to drag away from the shore, towards the ocean, with every wave.

    Perdurare
  • 2026
    Vague Void

    Vague Void

    Vague Void

    102026HD

    The world shifts subtly while silent watchers already understand.

    Vague Void
  • 1977
    Guadalcanal Requiem

    Guadalcanal Requiem

    Guadalcanal Requiem

    71977HD

    One of Paik’s most overtly political and poignant statements, Guadalcanal Requiem is a performance/documentary collage that confronts history,...

    Guadalcanal Requiem
  • 1949
    Charmides

    Charmides

    Charmides

    61949HD

    Based on Plato's dialogue Charmides.

    Charmides
  • 1989
    Natural History

    Natural History

    Natural History

    01989HD

    The parents of an adult infant named "Child", played by Todd Haynes, attempt to expel him from their home, by casting magical spell seen in a...

    Natural History
  • 1993
    Three Homerics

    Three Homerics

    Three Homerics

    5.51993HD

    This film is composed of three sections created to accompany a piece of music (by Barbara Feldman) on a Homeric poem.

    Three Homerics
  • 2008
    Rhythm 06

    Rhythm 06

    Rhythm 06

    02008HD

    Filmed in a decaying housing estate in east London, "Rhythm 06" renders the outer trappings of internal collapse, a choreography of layers of the...

    Rhythm 06
  • 1997
    Clip

    Clip

    Clip

    01997HD

    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...

    Clip
  • 2021
    Lucina Annulata

    Lucina Annulata

    Lucina Annulata

    02021HD

    Sunny. Semantic sequences guide the gaze, a gaze that is sometimes raised, propelled downwards, then too high or motionless in front of an...

    Lucina Annulata
  • 1949
    Pacific 231

    Pacific 231

    Pacific 231

    6.31949HD

    An engine moves from the roundhouse to a track where it couples with several passenger cars. At 2:10 in the afternoon, it starts a trip out of the...

    Pacific 231
  • 2023
    A Fly Floating In The Midst Of The Milk

    A Fly Floating In The Midst Of The Milk

    A Fly Floating In The Midst Of The Milk

    52023HD

    Disturbed by an irrational aversion to his house owner's unsettling left eye, man contemplates murder to escape the disturbing presence and restore...

    A Fly Floating In The Midst Of The Milk
  • 1970
    Prelude

    Prelude

    Prelude

    01970HD

    Every beginning becomes an end of yours, and mine, and us and this world. Because every ending has something to do with beginnings. Today, everyone...

    Prelude
  • 1988
    The Balcony

    The Balcony

    The Balcony

    01988HD

    The lives of people are observed within the confines of one, twenty-two story high rise apartment complex and its adjacent courtyard in Trump...

    The Balcony
  • 1969
    Gloria in the Glass

    Gloria in the Glass

    Gloria in the Glass

    01969HD

    1 minute, color, silent 16mm

    Gloria in the Glass
  • 1969
    The Midnight Party

    The Midnight Party

    The Midnight Party

    5.31969HD

    A short film where circus performers entertain children.

    The Midnight Party
  • 1996
    Prelude 11

    Prelude 11

    Prelude 11

    6.11996HD

    Thick weaves of multicolored lines and dull-colored blobs play off against each other.

    Prelude 11
  • 1971
    Doldertal 7

    Doldertal 7

    Doldertal 7

    81971HD

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

    Doldertal 7