Avant Garde Movies

(1970) color; 3 min.

"as work in progress: treasures found in the streams around me."

A portrait of North Kolkata (Calcutta), this film searches the streets for the ebb and flow of humanity and reflects the changing landscape of a city...

72 follows a teenage taxicab driver in Columbus, Mississippi multitasking to keep his job.

Short experimental film.

Safe places to view from.

An old woman is carrying shopping bags. A child with a gun is riding a scooter. Birds are flying. A city is falling. A party is lit.

Video essay ‘Rock and Cliff' investigates the creation of Horn Town, a new model village and centre of large scale tourist development, and the...

1965, black- and-white, 8 min., double-screen projection.

A young woman watches TV with her cat in the room. A dying man explores what's left of his psyche.

Lijn II is a tiny portrait of a friend made on a contact printer from scraps of a film that was lost

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

This documentary aims to register this unknown side of James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks. Trieste. Bloomsday, 2013. Dance in slow motion, accompanied...

An experimental short inspired by the music of Gladys Knight.

A psychedelic, avant-garde collage film designed to accompany PRPL PPL's experimental album of the same name.

Cracking open the human-camera body.

Study for Film No. 11: Mirror Animations (1957). Harry Smith described the film as, “An exposition of Buddhism and the Kaballah in the form of...

Arriving in the US with a background in abstract art, opera, and film—including work with German director Werner Schroeter—Vogl began...

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

Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit...