Avant Garde Movies

A film in three parts: a man talking while a telephone rings, a walking tour of New York, and a goldfish swimming.

A young adult's first-hand account of "accidentally becoming human again" after, and with, trauma induced depression. Lo-fi, vulnerable, and uniquely...

In this short slice of transgressive punk cinema, a woman achieves accidental revenge on her boyfriend after he cruelly kills and eats the fish-stick...

part of the Preludes series (1996)

Engram is a three-part piece revolving around a few good old ideas such as photos inside of photos, movies inside of movies, photos inside of movies,...

In this short film Bert Haanstra gives his vision - from the water – of a tranquil Holland. During filming he held the camera upside down and afterwar...

A reworking of the myth of Hippolytus, in which a chaste youth rejects the incestuous advances of his mother and is saved from death by a caring physi...

Safe places to view from.

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

Global Groove was a collaborative piece by Nam June Paik and John Godfrey. Paik, amongst other artists who shared the same vision in the 1960s, saw th...

A punk scarecrow, endowed by life, annihilates its roots and revitalizes its territory.

The film begins with a series of horizontally running ocean tide waves, sometimes with mountains in the background, hand-painted patterns, sometimes s...

Seeing, Hearing, Saying Nothing. Ben stands with ears, eyes, mouth bandaged.

An abstract experimental short film from Jordan Belson.

I set my sights on the human body and realized things, were moving at last, during my first material action, I soiled a female body with mud, paint, r...

This film is composed of three sections created to accompany a piece of music (by Barbara Feldman) on a Homeric poem.

A man is trapped in a loop somewhere between life and death. Based on Bardo, a Buddhist term for an intermediate state between death and rebirth. This...

part of the Preludes series (1996)

An experimental film comprised of Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING played forwards and backwards at the same time on the same screen, creating bizarre ju...

A bunch of spectators trapped in a cinema theatre.