Avant Garde Movies

"Thornton's magnum opus, this ongoing and open-ended serial follows its two improvisatory protagonists, children “raised by technology,”...

From 1967-71 Barry Spinello made films without camera or tape recorder by hand drawing both sound and picture directly onto clear 16mm leader. His...

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

“One can not speak of time as a thing in itself. It is movements and variations that give the feeling of time. Men have always linked time and...

This film is shot to point out the flood of commercial messages in television program, on billboards and megaboards, messages that take over our...

The film frame sometimes seems to function as a rug-like rectangle into or onto which the lover steps. Filmed in Orselina, Switzerland after reading...

Images of the uniforms as the Ohio guard is interviewed off-camera.

Christmas Eve in rapid camera.

(1970) color; 3 min.

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...

Term of prayer? Nothing in response.

Hymn to nature, song to the cosmos, Mâyâ builds a world where the camera generates a new type of representation in which the depth of...

The twilight and half-closed vision of the blinding bursts barely reveals fleeting and luminous unexpected phosphorescences, through and through the...

Staggeringly simple films: a man itching his back, a man thinking, a man yawning, but like the works of Samuel Beckett, these minute gestures stand...

A correctional officer’s daily routine of gaining access into a correctional facility.

Flash Passion is one of the very first films that the two artists made in Athens when they took up the super-8 camera and extended their theatre...

Short experimental 16mm film.

Controversial cinéma vérité analysis of Havana’s lumpenproletariat in waterfront bars and cafés shortly after the...

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

“The Occidental Hotel is a “city” film—I was inspired to emulate the Surrealists’ sense of wandering, of flaneury, of...