Avant Garde Movies

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...

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

The painter Alfredo Romero locks himself in his studio-apartment in the Estación de Francia neighborhood in Mollet del Vallès...

The "bleared eyes of blue glass" in the title of this experimental short expand on a verbal image from Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves, considered...

Surrendering the mind to the hypnotic dance of fire, a candle's glimmer reveals dreamlike memories, illustrated by flickering fragments of...

A series of individual portraits of friends and family, all interrelated in what might be called a branch growing directly from the trunk of SONGS 1...

An 1962 Avant-Garde Comedy by George Kuchar.

The corner of a street is matched and mixed with the chant of a bird recorded on that same street. A symbiotic relationship is triggered: the rapid...

Chopin "Nocturnes" accompany this study in black and white inspired by Huysman's decadent novel "À rebours".

A film about creation itself, a rite of the sun and the surfaces illuminated by it. Light capturing and light summoning "in a primitive attempt to...

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...

Roger Hammond’s silent portraits of film artists from the early 1970s were shot in and around David Larcher’s studio. Some Friends begins...

A careful observation of changes in the life cycles of flora and fauna that occur in the garden near his house in Vynnyky. The structure of the film...

A young adult's first-hand account of "accidentally becoming human again" after, and with, trauma induced depression. Lo-fi, vulnerable, and uniquely...

An employee at the Getty owned Pierre Hotel in New York City wondered why there were so many Germans being hired and staying at The Pierre during...

Here I am. A mind backed up by delusion of previous condition. Free or humiliated? Who is ashamed? Me or you? It is so hard to share one's secret.

Slow disintegration and aging of artists head, revealing underlying bone structure. Created using old picture-phone technology. New music added in...

A short film spelling Tokyo in hiragana.

An argument unfolds in the midst of everything else that has ever happened.

The third part of director Seth Tyler Black’s Portraits triptych, A Portrait: A Dance is a meditation on an artist’s struggle between...