Avant Garde Movies

An experimental non-linear horror film portraying several surreal scenes of grotesque and violent acts

You're waiting,aren't you?

Chopin "Nocturnes" accompany this study in black and white inspired by Huysman's decadent novel "À rebours".

Brakhage begins here with Carlsbad Caverns as a stand-in for Plato's Cave and then responds to the philosopher's notion of inaccessible ideal forms...

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

A whirlwind of improvisation combines the images of animator Pierre Hébert with the avant-garde sound of techno whiz Bob Ostertag in this...

Two men sit in a car, watching the world through the windshield. One is silent, the other is slowly drinking himself to death. External reality...

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

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;...

A Green Ray that never features. Instead, we sense it, seeing beyond our own eyes, beyond the hills, we sense it for an instant. We are plunged into...

shot in melbourne, may 2024

A portrait of a recently vacated home, the film evokes both memory and the lingering presence of past inhabitants. Through precise, enigmatic...

An experimental collage film pieced together from random bits of 16mm film strips.

This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.

A flickering survey of worlds both urban and botanical. The frame as an unsettled space, a centre that cannot hold, suspended in its own vertigo....

The twilight and half-closed vision of the blinding bursts barely reveals fleeting and luminous unexpected phosphorescences, through and through the...

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

Here I am. A mind backed up by delusion of previous condition. Free or humiliated? Who is ashamed? Me or you? It is so hard to share one's secret.

A film in which the one 60-story skyscraper that soars in the spaces between roofs spins with incredible speed. I centered the circumference with its...

Much depth of multi-colored thickened shapes which appear to be superimposed upon each other, semi-transparent in their "weave" with each other which...