Avant Garde Movies

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The story is the closure, the film is how pain and anxiety are carried by the wind. There is no use trying to exert control, it only causes the...

Edited but unprinted. Filmed in Paris. Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

The plot is currently kept under wraps.

"In continuo" uses slaughterhouse imagery to present the warlike nature of man, first depicting the cleaning and mechanical preparations for the...

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

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

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

A woman is terrorised in an existential hell.... Otherwise known as life itself.

From Pompeii to Xenia puts in echo times of innocence struck by disaster: the lightning tornado which had beaten down on the American city of...

"This project consists a visual fluidity of construction, harmony and thoughts taking colors and length from this body of autonomy. Different images...

Originally completed in 2018, the film was largely self-funded, Mr Yen Ooi worked on the script, refining the vision of the film for over a decade,...

Strips of previously unexposed film went into the ocean and these fragments are what returned. In this final installment of a nine year project...

Maria Lang is my very close filmmaker friend who lives in the southern german countryside. We see her gardening and visiting an exhibition of female...

The Black Film Series, a sequence of seven films made between 1965-69, is a primitive, sensory exploration of the medium, which ranges from total...

Beginning in 1965 with Black Is, Tambellini launched a series of politically charged experimental films that explore the expressive possibilities of...

The 1980s, the Tuscan countryside. Two young lovers are driving east to enjoy the dawn but they end up at the scene of a crime and become the new...

In 1967, Knowles, a Fluxus artist, composed one of the first computerized poems, written in Fortran code, with randomly assembled verses. (An...

An experimental drama that spins the tale of a woman, her sister, and the man who completes the triangle. Told through such fertile sources as grand...

Following an introduction which establishes the social context of the film, ‘The Politics of Perception’ presents a one-minute...