Avant Garde Movies

Flashing lights illuminate black faces and dark eyes, oscillating between darkness and inverted lightness.

Shenzhen River (the border btw Hong Kong and Shenzhen), and the Second Line of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (the border between Socialism China and...

An avant-garde meditation on obsolete technology. The film is of a 1930s Rheinmetall typewriter owned by the director. The film itself is projected...

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

One room, two half bodies, a silent relationship.

An experimental short by Tao Zhou.

A visual daydream of a late afternoon swim in the waters of a summer in Sicily.

A small girl's nightmare. Untitled No.1 is part of Mike Plante's Lunchfilm series of commissioned shorts (made for the cost of a lunch between Plante...

16 mm, color, 3:35 or 10 min. Study for No. 11. "An exposition of Buddhism and the Kaballah in the form of a collage. The final scene shows Agaric...

An artist strives to achieve a state of pure existence. Caught between inertia and movement, her body strains, adapts, and responds to what is...

A film of the avant-garde genre. It represents wanting to escape, but ultimately finding comfort in your mental illness (not in a good way).

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

(1970) color; 5 min

A continuous dissolve into a series of happy nude couples in various configurations: female/male, female/female, male/male, as the Rolling Stones...

This is an abstract film of a dream. It is a dream of paranoia, schizophrenia, manic-depression, and anxiety.

An essay on the brutality of beauty and innocence in a hostile world.

CRISP., wherein a jealous man's attempt to steal a delicious apple crisp causes reality to break down and begins a chain of events leading to an...

Film by Robert Todd

An experimental short inspired by the music of Gladys Knight.

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