Avant Garde Movies

Scientists and philosophers work to understand animal vision in this multi textured rumination exploring our relationship to the nonhuman world.

Water for Maya is a hand-painted work which came into being during a film interview with Martina Kudlacek about Maya Deren. There was a sudden...

Singly-printed multi-colored watery "blobs" and "feathery" streaks of painted color, dominated by yellows and reds interweaving in complexity until...

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

Edited but unprinted. Filmed in Paris. Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

Creeping from the halls of the maze brain, corruption and terror is woven by devils born from the denied errors of mankind.

A journey between Astoria and Herald Square through the windows of the train.

This film is made by some beautiful and unique alchemical transformations of the film material itself. It is a visual expedition into the world of...

This is a rhythmic invocation of the ancestral fire, in which dazzling flames reanimate bones and natural elements. This is the shining of colour.

The most beautiful planet deconstructed, played with, and put back together again.

Lifting and holding up a chest of drawers.

A brief and experimental ode to the humble dandelion, shot on 16mm developed using an eco-processor made of dandelions.

a sentimental audiovisual collage from december 2023

Poet and artist Vito Acconci points his finger towards the camera and his own reflection in an offscreen video monitor.

A man and a woman quarrel in the street. Others take sides, and a brawl begins. The police finally intervene and justice is carried out in a manner...

This film takes its cue from that ultimate situation of Sex/Med/masturbation - the loft-and-lonely hotel room. It is thus easily twice the length and...

"Ryuta is 5 years old. Even though he is my son, I sometimes wonder what this small person is to me. Even though I see his joys and sadnesses and...

Picture Perfect Pyramid is a 16mm film which in counter-clockwise spirals, circles a large pyramid structure that was built on the outskirts of...

In SIBYL, three forces converge within a mysterious house—a space that becomes their base of transport. As they adapt to its strange rhythms,...

With some amount of irony, filmmaker Joe Biglin strings together 7 shorts about himself and things that trigger his OCD.