Avant Garde Movies

  • 2013
    Second-hand Reading

    Second-hand Reading

    Second-hand Reading

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    A film constructed from a succession of drawings on old books.

    Second-hand Reading
  • 2018
    USB

    USB

    USB

    02018HD

    A man comes home to find a mysterious box on his living room floor.

    USB
  • 2016
    Shared Table

    Shared Table

    Shared Table

    02016HD

    “Last August, several filmmakers joined me to repair the splices in Markopoulos’s Eniaios. I interrupted our work for a moment; the...

    Shared Table
  • 2008
    Heim

    Heim

    Heim

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    "A sequence shot explores from attic to celler a large residence that, for the time being, is emptied out of its inhabitants. Their habits are...

    Heim
  • 2006
    Everytown

    Everytown

    Everytown

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    "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...

    Everytown
  • 1973
    Ikarus

    Ikarus

    Ikarus

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    A slow-motion dive at 3,000 frames per second.

    Ikarus
  • 1991
    Royaume

    Royaume

    Royaume

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    Light, colour, abstraction, perception, hallucination: a few concerns closely akin to those of ETANT DONNÉS which, however, do not amount to...

    Royaume
  • 2023
    Bulíço Mulíebre

    Bulíço Mulíebre

    Bulíço Mulíebre

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    Bulíço Mulíebre
  • 2023
    bleared eyes of blue glass

    bleared eyes of blue glass

    bleared eyes of blue glass

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    The "bleared eyes of blue glass" in the title of this experimental short expand on a verbal image from Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves, considered...

    bleared eyes of blue glass
  • 1977
    Centerbeam

    Centerbeam

    Centerbeam

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    Film produced and directed by Ricky Leacock, Edward Pincus, and MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies documenting the Centerbeam kinetic sculpture...

    Centerbeam
  • 1977
    The Heavens

    The Heavens

    The Heavens

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    "The Heavens"–Symmetrical chaos envelops a lone, topless man, whose symmetrical abstractions conjure up a psychadelic version of DaVinci's...

    The Heavens
  • 1967
    A Sense of the Past

    A Sense of the Past

    A Sense of the Past

    01967HD

    This is a short film description of a room, and the way light (coming through a window) illuminates papers on a desk. An attempt to use color, camera...

    A Sense of the Past
  • 2017
    Scar

    Scar

    Scar

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    A girl who was floating freely in the water accidentally gets her skin cut by a sailboat passing by. The story is derived from personal experience,...

    Scar
  • 1976
    Head

    Head

    Head

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    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...

    Head
  • 1982
    Ghost Sonata

    Ghost Sonata

    Ghost Sonata

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    Video project dubbed "an Opera without Words" made by the experimental, avant-garde band Tuxedomoon.

    Ghost Sonata
  • 1976
    Skyworks:

    Skyworks: "Light, Lighten, Lightning" (Three Mile Drop)

    Skyworks: "Light, Lighten, Lightning" (Three Mile Drop)

    01976HD

    16mm film (color, sound); 16 min.

    Skyworks:
  • 2020
    there is a willow grows aslant a brook,

    there is a willow grows aslant a brook,

    there is a willow grows aslant a brook,

    02020HD

    "My name, melancholia".

    there is a willow grows aslant a brook,
  • 1969
    Max Ernst, Une Semaine de Bonte

    Max Ernst, Une Semaine de Bonte

    Max Ernst, Une Semaine de Bonte

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    "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...

    Max Ernst, Une Semaine de Bonte
  • 1970
    Common Mistakes

    Common Mistakes

    Common Mistakes

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    Common Mistakes uses four synonyms for the word "mistake" (fallacy, error, accident, and blunder) to present a sample of widely held "truths" that...

    Common Mistakes
  • 2000
    Esciue

    Esciue

    Esciue

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

    Esciue