Avant Garde Movies

  • 2010
    The Futurist

    The Futurist

    The Futurist

    02010HD

    The Futurist is a condensed experience of film viewing, a single 360 degree animated shot in an empty 1920’s cinema where the sound becomes a...

    The Futurist
  • 2022
    Corner

    Corner

    Corner

    02022HD

    The corner of a street is matched and mixed with the chant of a bird recorded on that same street. A symbiotic relationship is triggered: the rapid...

    Corner
  • 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
  • 2023
    Looking through a Glass Darkly

    Looking through a Glass Darkly

    Looking through a Glass Darkly

    02023HD

    An experimental media installation of three windows exploring fragments of liminality. Three unique re-constructions of experiential instances...

    Looking through a Glass Darkly
  • 2014
    Second Sighted

    Second Sighted

    Second Sighted

    62014HD

    Obscure signs portend a looming, indecipherable slump. An oracular decoding of the landscape.

    Second Sighted
  • 1949
    The Lead Shoes

    The Lead Shoes

    The Lead Shoes

    5.21949HD

    In "The Lead Shoes", we can neither thrust in our eyes nor our ears to help us understand how time flows or how space is. Therefore, Peterson forces...

    The Lead Shoes
  • 1978
    Shrinking of the Sun

    Shrinking of the Sun

    Shrinking of the Sun

    01978HD

    An experimental short.

    Shrinking of the Sun
  • 2013
    A Portrait: A Dance

    A Portrait: A Dance

    A Portrait: A Dance

    02013HD

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

    A Portrait: A Dance
  • 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
  • 2022
    Partially Obscured

    Partially Obscured

    Partially Obscured

    62022HD

    A film about creation itself, a rite of the sun and the surfaces illuminated by it. Light capturing and light summoning "in a primitive attempt to...

    Partially Obscured
  • 2022
    Reverie

    Reverie

    Reverie

    02022HD

    An experimental portrayal of being adrift in a daydream.

    Reverie
  • 1978
    Batsu

    Batsu

    Batsu

    01978HD

    An experimental short.

    Batsu
  • 2022
    The Beginner's Guide to Spinning in Loops

    The Beginner's Guide to Spinning in Loops

    The Beginner's Guide to Spinning in Loops

    02022HD

    From June 2021 to June 2022, Justin "Jastun" Bland records whatever that is in front of him. He presents an abstract montage of collected videos...

    The Beginner's Guide to Spinning in Loops
  • 2021
    (Always) Next To Me

    (Always) Next To Me

    (Always) Next To Me

    02021HD

    (Always) Next to Me is a 16mm film that pairs abstract sequences of plants developed directly on the film emulsion with intertitles briefly...

    (Always) Next To Me
  • 2026
    Placenta Mentis

    Placenta Mentis

    Placenta Mentis

    02026HD

    Five people of different ages, professions, and backgrounds, explore madness through collective play and the performance of surreal acts, freeing...

    Placenta Mentis
  • 2015
    Ken Burns Says

    Ken Burns Says "Jazz" 3 Billion Times (actually 2.97 bn) in Under 3.5 Minutes

    Ken Burns Says "Jazz" 3 Billion Times (actually 2.97 bn) in Under 3.5 Minutes

    4.52015HD

    Ken Burns Says "Jazz" 3 Billion Times (actually 2.97 bn) in Under 3.5 Minutes

    Ken Burns Says
  • 2011
    The Collapse of PAL

    The Collapse of PAL

    The Collapse of PAL

    02011HD

    In "The Collapse of PAL" (Eulogy, Obsequies and Requiem for the planes of blue phosphor), the Angel of History (as described by Walter Benjamin)...

    The Collapse of PAL
  • 1982
    No Title

    No Title

    No Title

    01982HD

    Poetic and romantic amateur footage of a young couple in a garden, as well as their travels — several spliced films with different plots were...

    No Title
  • 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
  • 1970
    burning dreaming

    burning dreaming

    burning dreaming

    01970HD

    Burn flowers burn ,as dreams.Dreams burn down like they were never meant to bloom.

    burning dreaming