Avant Garde Movies

1 minute, color, silent 16mm

The scene is set in front of a French chateau. The camera chases improbable incidents across the screen. Many are constructed out of one of Jordan's...

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

A man and a woman have a conversation on a bench. The wind blows with a calming serenity. The leaves fall with a graceful respect for the grass....

shot in melbourne, may 2024

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;...

Childhood memories of the author's life using images of dance performances with music from a genre she discovered in her adolescence. Both marked her...

This work is one film of the omnibus ‘Seeing’. About ‘Seeing’: “Filmmaker Matsumoto Toshio, a pioneer of experimental...

A poetic journey from the darkness of dawn into the brightness of the midday sun in the American South. Filmed over the course of six months on one...

The ocean, the trees, the varieties of cityscape and landscape assert themselves as "pictures", but the images are essentially a wash and tangle of...

One of the most iconic sequences in the history of Hollywood cinema (from Alfred Hitchcock’s NORTH BY NORTHWEST) is deconstructed and...

The wife lost her sense of time in the loops of life, becoming the gears of social machinery. The husband is a writer who has the spirit of...

Images that take the viewer to the sea, before dark.

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

Based on Plato's dialogue Charmides.

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

An interpretation of a recurring dream.

Philosophical excerpts breaking the rules of language overlapped with footage of nature, inscrutable voice recordings, strange noises, and classical...

Turquoise and maroon-toned thin lines of paint are interspersed with variously toned circular "watermarks" of blotched paint giving-way to...

An outcast girl makes an interesting conversation with a peculiar boy.