Movies: Avant garde

The 360° project tells the story of a peaceful environment featuring a rare case phenomena where a swarm of butterflies is nurturing itself by eating the nectar of flowers showing the beauty but also the fragility of a complex ecosystem. The video in...

The film is an observational telling of a watchman in an apartment complex in Guwahati, Assam, India. It blends documentary to explore his alienation and raise the question of empathy vis-a-vis his occupation: its existence beyond what may be referre...

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

This is an abstract film of a dream. It is a dream of paranoia, schizophrenia, manic-depression, and anxiety....

A meditation on time and its effect on memory. About the rocks the sea tries to drag away from the shore, towards the ocean, with every wave....

A poetic exploration of the presence and absence of a mother....

How do those within the memories show themselves to us?...

A psychedelic journey reproducing in sound and images the hallucinogenic experience of an acid trip, mixing original video with images taken from TV news, porn films and army stock movies. ...Substitution Number 4...

A short Avant-Garde experimental film...

Experimental short film exploring New York City's multicultural history through the eyes of three chosen individuals....

An avant-garde meditation on obsolete technology. The film is of a 1930s Rheinmetall typewriter owned by the director. The film itself is projected by a 1960s-era Victoria 8 projector. This exhibit was displayed at the Museum of Modern Art....

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

Witnessing my daughters passage though childhood with a 35mm Russian movie camera....

Images of the uniforms as the Ohio guard is interviewed off-camera....

Drawing together footage, photographs and texts from archival sources as well as the artist’s personal collection of materials, Yto Barrada’s new film is as much a poetic enigma as it is a portrait of identity. Ether Reveries (Suite for Thérèse Riviè...

Using the unstability of digital to pursue the unstability of film....

It’s any day, any year in the house of Alan and Vera Ellis in their Post-Industrial English conurbation formerly known for their world renown pottery industry, yet this week they are interrupted by their 16mm camera toting grandson. This year's sprin...

The wife lost her sense of time in the loops of life, becoming the gears of social machinery. The husband is a writer who has the spirit of rebellion. But under the pressure of the family and the change of the times, his spirit began to get confuse. ...

This is a surrealistic documentary with a strong format which is based on the point of view of author. Tan can't fall in sleep in the night, is that because too noisy in the world, or it's just her thoughts bothering herself? It seems life itself it'...

Active elements at play, in toil, and in retreat, seeking peace....