Movies: Avant garde

“Sequences of space-time manipulation that raise the problem of continuity in the shot.” - Yo Ota...

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Found film sequences brought together in the paranoia of the cold war and Vietnam....

Edited but not printed. Filmed in Zurich. Original reversal film deposted in Temenos Archive, Zurich....

Short avant garde film. Views of rippling water....

A slow-motion dive at 3,000 frames per second....

A short experimental film; "An hommage to silent movies"....

These two films investigate frustrations in loving, DAYBREAK with a girl as object, WHITEYE with the camera as subject. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013....

For five grueling years, Li Ning documents his struggle to achieve success as an avant-garde artist while contending with the pressures of modern life in China. He is caught between two families: his wife, son and mother, whom he can barely support; ...

Based on Plato's dialogue Charmides....

In Razor Blades, Paul SHARITS consciously challenges our eyes, ears and minds to withstand a barrage of high powered and often contradictory stimuli. In a careful juxtaposition and fusion of these elements on different parts of our being, usually occ...

This is a non-narrative film, comprised of shots that "portray a certain young man in the terms of the things that he likes", such as the flow of the tide on a seashore, the motion of finely-tuned machinery, and sunlight shining through the fronds o...

Made in 1969. 1min. 16mm. Black and White...

“My attempt at a filmic interpretation of Haraguchi Noriyuki’s ‘Inclined Horizon,’ a three-dimensional physical work featured in the ‘Dance Hakushu 2006’ exhibition held in the Hakushu district of Hokuto City, Yamanashi Prefecture. Haraguchi’s work w...

Edited but unprinted. Filmed in Paris. Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich....

Migrating by sea from Holland as an eight-year-old, Dirk de Bruyn went on to be a doyen of Australian experimental cinema. But as this intimate film reveals, his work is suffused with the trauma of migration, and the struggle to recognise himself as ...

This film is entirely hand-painted and is composed of such an evolution of variably colored shapes that their inter-action with each other should constitute a purely visual "self-evident" (as prompted by the title). Each frame is printed twice, so th...

A love story recounted not by them, but by their belongings and surroundings....

In "The Collapse of PAL" (Eulogy, Obsequies and Requiem for the planes of blue phosphor), the Angel of History (as described by Walter Benjamin) reflects on the PAL signal and its termination....

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