Avant Garde Movies
- 2004
Chateau/Poyet
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The scene is set in front of a French chateau. The camera chases improbable incidents across the screen. Many are constructed out of one of Jordan's...
- 2005
Poet's Dream
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The poet's dreams a maiden's bubbles through edifices of forest and eclectic contagion.
- 2003
It’s Not My Memory of It: Three Recollected Documents
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“It’s not my memory of it” is a documentary about secrecy, memory, and documents. A former CIA source recounts his disappearance...
- 2000
The Glass System
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“The Glass System, made from images shot in New York and Calcutta, looks at life as it is played out in the streets. Every corner turned...
- 1971
Frank Zappa
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The Documentary centers around Zappa at home, and on Tour. The amazing thing is that Zappa allowed a guy with a camera to film the band at the...
- 2006
Everytown
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"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...
- 1989
Graffiti
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A woman carries a cat in a shopping bag that refuses to be petted. Tired of its behaviour, she violently strikes the bag repeatedly against a wall....
- 1976
Expiration
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Short experimental film.
- 1983
Holiday
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Experimental short film.
- 1968
Sonata for Pen, Brush, and Ruler
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From 1967-71 Barry Spinello made films without camera or tape recorder by hand drawing both sound and picture directly onto clear 16mm leader. His...
- 1947
Polka Graph
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Short film by Mary Ellen Bute
- 1968
Gaudi Killed by a Tram
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Images of the Church of the Sagrada Familia by Antoni Gaudí confronted with brief flashes of housing projects and industrial areas. The...
- 1973
Ikarus
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A slow-motion dive at 3,000 frames per second.
- 1977
Glenn Miller 1 (High School Backyard 1)
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An abstract, minimalistic showpiece of late structuralist film made up of 360-degree pans across a children’s playground – and to one of...
- 1988
Black Celebration
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This engaged reading of the urban black riots of the 1960s references Guy Debord’s Situationist text, “The Decline and Fall of the...
- 1990
Fade to Black
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In this meditation on contemporary race relations, two black men discuss in voiceover certain “casual” events in life and cinema that are...
- 1999
Ad Vice
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"Ad Vice consists of a succession of colored projection surfaces with segments of text from the worlds of advertising, sport and popular culture." -...
- 1995
Unstable Materials
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This film is made by some beautiful and unique alchemical transformations of the film material itself. It is a visual expedition into the world of...
- 1993
A Proven Partner
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"I came across an old industrial film by Siemens on computer and their language. To better appreciate the film I first of all cut off the sound, I...
- 1970
Formications
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A foreign girl arrives to her new apartment. Her three roommates welcome her rather distantly, for no reason at all, and she can smell that there is...