Avant Garde Movies

In Burlesque, the young journalist and film critic Kucera concocted a playful mixture of Surrealist trick shots and newsreel material to express his...

Peripeteia I and Peripeteia II, shot by the artist in Oregon’s rainforest, alone and without electricity.

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

Flares of color break into streams of light, leaves, wood grain and prism-etched vegetation. A moon lifts out of this dark weave to be replaced by...

A 3 minute Shortfilm playing with the expressionistic themes of the German Poem “D-Zug” by Gottfried Benn.

A radical series of images from Karl Ring.

A continuous dissolve into a series of happy nude couples in various configurations: female/male, female/female, male/male, as the Rolling Stones...

A short film spelling Tokyo in hiragana.

In What’s Ours and What We Are, images, motifs and words that originally served a particular political agenda are playfully manipulated to...

An experimental collage film pieced together from random bits of 16mm film strips.

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

A correctional officer’s daily routine of gaining access into a correctional facility.

An eight-minute work filmed on 35mm film, Collage d’Hollywood explores the materiality of the film medium in a literal way. Collage is...

An animated cartoon about the Creation myth reviewed and corrected by two women. God the magician has decided to create a paradise: Switzerland. He...

“The structure of human vision is the visual knowledge of the world. Individuals do not visually understand the world through the eyes, but...

Die Schachtel (The Box), 1968. 35mm film transfer to videotape, black-and-white, sound; 29 minutes.

...again, is "plein-aire abstraction" as defined above (painted in New York City) – with, for example, even a correctly toned green impression...

Interplay of toned rectangular shapes, vertical and horizontal and diagonal lines in juxtaposition with hardened darker shapes which gradually shift...

16mm film by Radoslav Vladić.

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