Avant Garde Movies

  • 1995
    Prelude 5

    Prelude 5

    Prelude 5

    5.31995HD

    This section is very similar to Prelude 4 except that it is composed of extremely thin-lined colors and sharply delineated shapes which are...

    Prelude 5
  • 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
  • 2011
    Herr Getty

    Herr Getty

    Herr Getty

    02011HD

    An employee at the Getty owned Pierre Hotel in New York City wondered why there were so many Germans being hired and staying at The Pierre during...

    Herr Getty
  • 1970
    Epistemology: Floating Images and the Search for a Greater Enallage

    Epistemology: Floating Images and the Search for a Greater Enallage

    Epistemology: Floating Images and the Search for a Greater Enallage

    01970HD

    Philosophical excerpts breaking the rules of language overlapped with footage of nature, inscrutable voice recordings, strange noises, and classical...

    Epistemology: Floating Images and the Search for a Greater Enallage
  • 2013
    A Portrait: A Dance

    A Portrait: A Dance

    A Portrait: A Dance

    02013HD

    The third part of director Seth Tyler Black’s Portraits tryptic, A Portrait: A Dance is a meditation on an artist’s struggle between...

    A Portrait: A Dance
  • 2025
    108 spin

    108 spin

    108 spin

    02025HD

    A kinetic prayer and structuralist intervention. Shot entirely on an iPhone 11 in a desolate Midwest laundromat, 108 spin documents the mechanics of...

    108 spin
  • 2022
    An Atom on Creation's Throne

    An Atom on Creation's Throne

    An Atom on Creation's Throne

    52022HD

    Images of concrete and stone. A cemetery. Light making its way through the tree leaves.

    An Atom on Creation's Throne
  • 1968
    Der Schachtel

    Der Schachtel

    Der Schachtel

    01968HD

    Die Schachtel (The Box), 1968. 35mm film transfer to videotape, black-and-white, sound; 29 minutes.

    Der Schachtel
  • 2016
    An Early Spring Afternoon, A Piece of Distant Memory

    An Early Spring Afternoon, A Piece of Distant Memory

    An Early Spring Afternoon, A Piece of Distant Memory

    02016HD

    Using the unstability of digital to pursue the unstability of film.

    An Early Spring Afternoon, A Piece of Distant Memory
  • 2022
    Crow

    Crow

    Crow

    02022HD

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

    Crow
  • 2020
    SOLVE et COAGULA

    SOLVE et COAGULA

    SOLVE et COAGULA

    02020HD

    The ancient Thracian bard Orpheus laments ever for his lost love Eurydice. Having returned from the Underworld in his attempts to retrieve her, he...

    SOLVE et COAGULA
  • 2020
    Where Do The Waves Go?

    Where Do The Waves Go?

    Where Do The Waves Go?

    02020HD

    A documentary on electronic music made using "bio-feedback" devices and techniques.

    Where Do The Waves Go?
  • 2025
    The Purpose

    The Purpose

    The Purpose

    02025HD

    A chair, a yogurt, and a masked man are guided to find themselves by an unknown entity.

    The Purpose
  • 2000
    Persian Series #10

    Persian Series #10

    Persian Series #10

    5.62000HD

    "Twigs" of color in space, and pure white "ghosts" of them in the background interspersed with dark amalgams of these and conglomerate forms. The...

    Persian Series #10
  • 2023
    bleared eyes of blue glass

    bleared eyes of blue glass

    bleared eyes of blue glass

    02023HD

    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
  • 2011
    Christ Church – Saint James

    Christ Church – Saint James

    Christ Church – Saint James

    72011HD

    In the spring of 1998, Christ Church - Saint James, an historic black church in Toronto's Little Italy, was destroyed by arson. All that remained...

    Christ Church – Saint James
  • 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
  • 2005
    Poet's Dream

    Poet's Dream

    Poet's Dream

    02005HD

    The poet's dreams a maiden's bubbles through edifices of forest and eclectic contagion.

    Poet's Dream
  • 2016
    Now We Put The Little Feelers On The Butterfly

    Now We Put The Little Feelers On The Butterfly

    Now We Put The Little Feelers On The Butterfly

    02016HD

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

    Now We Put The Little Feelers On The Butterfly
  • 2012
    Narcissi

    Narcissi

    Narcissi

    02012HD

    "Shiloh Cinquemani works wonders simply by framing flowers in “Narcissi” and “Rose.” Her delirious flux of glances...

    Narcissi