Avant Garde Movies

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

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

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

"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...

"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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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 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,...

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...

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

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

"My name, melancholia".

"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...

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

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