Avant Garde Movies

  • 1968
    Surface Tension

    Surface Tension

    Surface Tension

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

    Surface Tension
  • 1968
    Welcome to Come

    Welcome to Come

    Welcome to Come

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    Welcome to Come, which depicts a somewhat mysterious transformation of the image in the course of a single zoom, was my only film to achieve a small...

    Welcome to Come
  • 2004
    Kshya Tra Ghya

    Kshya Tra Ghya

    Kshya Tra Ghya

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    A stream of mysterious rituals and symbols are encountered as a young boy journeys to school in the fantastical world of Kshya Tra Ghya.

    Kshya Tra Ghya
  • 1973
    The Politics of Perception

    The Politics of Perception

    The Politics of Perception

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

    The Politics of Perception
  • 1981
    The Gardener of Eden

    The Gardener of Eden

    The Gardener of Eden

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    An old man (artist and landscape architect Bevis Bawa) contemplates the Garden of Eden.

    The Gardener of Eden
  • 1971
    Man and Woman

    Man and Woman

    Man and Woman

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    MAN AND WOMAN shows full body shots of a naked man and woman shot from above without movement. They are shown alone as well as together, one over (or...

    Man and Woman
  • 1986
    Rhytmical Lines

    Rhytmical Lines

    Rhytmical Lines

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    A short experimental film dedicated to Polish artist Wacław Szpakowski (1883–1973).

    Rhytmical Lines
  • 2015
    and now?

    and now?

    and now?

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    #13, glancing, or avoiding.

    and now?
  • 2024
    After James Benning's YouTube

    After James Benning's YouTube

    After James Benning's YouTube

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    Divided into 26 parts, an attempt to remake James Benning's film, YouTube (2011) with similar internet footage after 13 years.

    After James Benning's YouTube
  • 2010
    Envío 23

    Envío 23

    Envío 23

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    Filmed in Zürich. For Robert Beavers. Talking about the illuminated and the un-illuminated.

    Envío 23
  • 2016
    Abduction

    Abduction

    Abduction

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    Going back to the places of crime scenes and urban legends, a Visual Bizarre Adventure in Daytime.

    Abduction
  • 1969
    Stairs, Tunnels and Mirrors

    Stairs, Tunnels and Mirrors

    Stairs, Tunnels and Mirrors

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    "1969 period. In the beginning of this experimental film a figure in white ascends spiral staircases and escalators and moves away from the camera...

    Stairs, Tunnels and Mirrors
  • 1970
    Scan Platform Problems

    Scan Platform Problems

    Scan Platform Problems

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    The most beautiful planet deconstructed, played with, and put back together again.

    Scan Platform Problems
  • 2002
    Soupirs d’écumes

    Soupirs d’écumes

    Soupirs d’écumes

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

    Soupirs d’écumes
  • 1989
    Self-Organization of Biological Systems

    Self-Organization of Biological Systems

    Self-Organization of Biological Systems

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    The pantomime of two characters exchanging roles is accompanied by a three-layered phonogram, where sophisticated narrative text is interrupted by...

    Self-Organization of Biological Systems
  • 2024
    A Sense of Nothing

    A Sense of Nothing

    A Sense of Nothing

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    A film motivated by nothing (but daily life and (my) vision). It represents nothing, it signifies nothing. There’s no hidden meaning, no...

    A Sense of Nothing
  • 1998
    Six Positions

    Six Positions

    Six Positions

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    Six Positions (1998) is about task of a funeral home director.

    Six Positions
  • 1996
    Prelude 12

    Prelude 12

    Prelude 12

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    A bursting of mostly golden light forms as if heralding sunlight itself in their hurried (single-frame) display.

    Prelude 12
  • 2014
    The Occidental Hotel

    The Occidental Hotel

    The Occidental Hotel

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

    The Occidental Hotel
  • 2007
    Heineken

    Heineken

    Heineken

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    Heineken is an abstraction based on an image from a six pack of beer. The extraction of color and transformation of the source image are...

    Heineken