Avant Garde Movies

  • 1980
    Dr. Jeckyll and Ms. Hyde

    Dr. Jeckyll and Ms. Hyde

    Dr. Jeckyll and Ms. Hyde

    01980HD

    This black-and-white nightmare gives Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale
of the dark id a campy, gender-flipping treatment reminiscent...

    Dr. Jeckyll and Ms. Hyde
  • 2015
    A Man from Manchuria

    A Man from Manchuria

    A Man from Manchuria

    3.52015HD

    The story tracks the unhealthy and abusive relationship between an unnamed man and his wife in the days following his return to north eastern...

    A Man from Manchuria
  • 1973
    The Politics of Perception

    The Politics of Perception

    The Politics of Perception

    01973HD

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

    The Politics of Perception
  • 1987
    Accidental Confessions

    Accidental Confessions

    Accidental Confessions

    01987HD

    Scenes from a demolition derby event are combined with statements taken from automobile insurance claims in Accidental Confessions. In these claims,...

    Accidental Confessions
  • 2001
    Untied

    Untied

    Untied

    02001HD

    A small portrait of the volatility of intimacy and of breaking free from abusive cycles: made in response to a year of collapsing relationships and...

    Untied
  • 2017
    Labirint

    Labirint

    Labirint

    02017HD

    Two halves split by the perseverance of a scorpion. Come on, feet.

    Labirint
  • 1962
    Ahasverus

    Ahasverus

    Ahasverus

    01962HD

    Short experimental 16mm film.

    Ahasverus
  • 1961
    The Earth

    The Earth

    The Earth

    01961HD

    Short experimental 16mm film.

    The Earth
  • 2006
    Untitled #1

    Untitled #1

    Untitled #1

    52006HD

    A small girl's nightmare. Untitled No.1 is part of Mike Plante's Lunchfilm series of commissioned shorts (made for the cost of a lunch between Plante...

    Untitled #1
  • 1999
    Like a Dream that Vanishes

    Like a Dream that Vanishes

    Like a Dream that Vanishes

    4.71999HD

    "Like a Dream That Vanishes" continues Sternberg’s work in film both thematically and formally: the ephemerality of life echoed in the temporal...

    Like a Dream that Vanishes
  • 2016
    Stabat Mater

    Stabat Mater

    Stabat Mater

    4.82016HD

    Hotel guests look restrained, sedated in the diffuse light of the service provider’s shimmering cage. A network of joists, pilasters and...

    Stabat Mater
  • 2012
    Nebukawa

    Nebukawa

    Nebukawa

    02012HD

    “There was an art event at a closed school, Kataura Junior High School, in Nebukawa, Kanagawa Prefecture. If I did not participate in this...

    Nebukawa
  • 2007
    Inclined Horizon

    Inclined Horizon

    Inclined Horizon

    02007HD

    “My attempt at a filmic interpretation of Haraguchi Noriyuki’s ‘Inclined Horizon,’ a three-dimensional physical work featured...

    Inclined Horizon
  • 2000
    Incorrect Intermittence

    Incorrect Intermittence

    Incorrect Intermittence

    02000HD

    “This film offers a metacinematic study of tempo and change and a figure of velocity. […] Ota recorded [three different locations in...

    Incorrect Intermittence
  • 1981
    Temps Topologique

    Temps Topologique

    Temps Topologique

    01981HD

    “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...

    Temps Topologique
  • 1997
    Distorted

    Distorted "Tele" Vision

    Distorted "Tele" Vision

    71997HD

    “The visual harmony of the landscape is disturbed by a screen that allows us to see into the distance (television). The film is composed of six...

    Distorted
  • 2015
    Endless Sea

    Endless Sea

    Endless Sea

    02015HD

    Endless Sea is a textural, oneiric exploration of the inability to escape captured within the confines of Grand Theft Auto: Andreas.

    Endless Sea
  • 2016
    Fuddy Duddy

    Fuddy Duddy

    Fuddy Duddy

    02016HD

    FUDDY DUDDY uses the motif of the grid to blow it to pieces. Being occupied with structural film, I repeatedly draw 'frame plans', using grid...

    Fuddy Duddy
  • 1968
    Castle Two

    Castle Two

    Castle Two

    01968HD

    Found film sequences brought together in the paranoia of the cold war and Vietnam.

    Castle Two
  • 1967
    23rd Psalm Branch

    23rd Psalm Branch

    23rd Psalm Branch

    8.21967HD

    Made during the height of the Vietnam War, Stan Brakhage has said of this film that he was hoping to bring some clarity to the subject of war....

    23rd Psalm Branch