Avant Garde Movies

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

16mm film (color, sound); 16 min.

Drawing together footage, photographs and texts from archival sources as well as the artist’s personal collection of materials, Yto...

A homogeneous structure of wind and light across tree branches in the South region of Isère

Rummaging for Pasts is an experimental juxtaposition of two cinematic documents: the video diary of an international archaeological excavation and a...

Produced using a VHS VCR and a digital camcorder, Vide-Uhhh! is an experimental piece, showcasing the VCR recording itself as Jesse England takes it...

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...

This section is very similar to Prelude 4 except that it is composed of extremely thin-lined colors and sharply delineated shapes which are...

Experimental film by Motoharu Jonouchi comprised of both archival footage from the 1960s Japanese student riots and dramatised re-enactions. It was...

Visible Light is a dreamlike exploration on the nature of reality as perceived by a schizophrenic man.

For five grueling years, Li Ning documents his struggle to achieve success as an avant-garde artist while contending with the pressures of modern...

These two films investigate frustrations in loving, DAYBREAK with a girl as object, WHITEYE with the camera as subject. Preserved by the Academy...

(Always) Next to Me is a 16mm film that pairs abstract sequences of plants developed directly on the film emulsion with intertitles briefly...

Shenzhen River (the border btw Hong Kong and Shenzhen), and the Second Line of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (the border between Socialism China and...

In 1952, Haanstra made Panta Rhei , another view of Holland through the eyes of a painter and filmmaker. Its poetic images of water, skies and clouds...

A foolish shadow attempts to behave like a real entity but the irony takes place

"Twigs" of color in space, and pure white "ghosts" of them in the background interspersed with dark amalgams of these and conglomerate forms. The...

An eight-hour contemplative epic, entirely starring sheep.

"The work Everytown deals with futuristic models from science, literature and film at the beginning of the 20th century. The focus lies on the social...