Avant Garde Movies

Prelude 14 begins in deep brilliant red which darkens into deeper reds and lavender shapes, disrupted by a variety of colors settling into browns and...

These two films investigate frustrations in loving, DAYBREAK with a girl as object, WHITEYE with the camera as subject. Preserved by the Academy...

Filmed in Zürich. For Robert Beavers. Talking about the illuminated and the un-illuminated.

This film concentrated the crystal energy of earth nature, expended the trace and texture of mote. It try to use powerful flicker image to tune up...

An avant-garde film presented as part of an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. From MoMA's catalog: "For the monumental installation Play Dead;...

This short film follows a man lost in the woods driven by his fear of the unknown.

The debut short film from Edward Pettitt, that blends surrealist imagery with the sounds from The Residents.

Experimental short film about the fragility of time

Future Shocked is an experimental visual film.

This hand-painted step-printed film begins in a field of white light slightly bespeckled with ephemeral glazes of flecks of silver which gradually...

In December, 1941, using music by Stravinsky, this film provides a reaction to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. An egg is smashed by a hammer;...

Director of this movie gave an advertisement in many Yugoslav papers calling everybody who wants to act in movie regardless of age, look or...

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

Filmed in London. For Annette Carle. Details of landscapes, roads.

From 1967-71 Barry Spinello made films without camera or tape recorder by hand drawing both sound and picture directly onto clear 16mm leader. His...

A hand-painted film photographically step-printed so that the thicket-like lines of paint are “played-off” against some centered...

Interplay of toned rectangular shapes, vertical and horizontal and diagonal lines in juxtaposition with hardened darker shapes which gradually shift...

The first part of director Seth Tyler Black’s Portraits tryptic, A Portrait: A Philosophy paints the cyclical nature of the lifespan of an...

A film motivated by nothing (but daily life and (my) vision). It represents nothing, it signifies nothing. There’s no hidden meaning, no...

For Barbara Figueroa