Movies: Avant garde

The pantomime of two characters exchanging roles is accompanied by a three-layered phonogram, where sophisticated narrative text is interrupted by slightly accelerated excerpt from Brezhnev’s speeches, as well as by fragments of statements of the men...

A disgruntled bank teller’s system before the mornings commute....

Filmed in Zürich. For Sofía Verder "As if I had the intention to narrate things, I have saved a considerable amount of notes and details". J.M....

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'...

Short film by Mary Ellen Bute...

"Ad Vice consists of a succession of colored projection surfaces with segments of text from the worlds of advertising, sport and popular culture." - Anita De Groot...

16mm film by Radoslav Vladić....

One of the most iconic sequences in the history of Hollywood cinema (from Alfred Hitchcock’s NORTH BY NORTHWEST) is deconstructed and reassembled to illuminate the patterns, rhythms and choreography of the original so as to break through and make for...

Hutton's most impressive work ... the filmmaker's style takes on an assertive edge that marks his maturity. The landscape has a majesty that serves to reflect the meditative interiority of the artist independent of any human presence. ... New York is...

In "The Lead Shoes", we can neither thrust in our eyes nor our ears to help us understand how time flows or how space is. Therefore, Peterson forces us to take both space and time as relative experiences. The consistent disorientation in the film and...

Philosophical excerpts breaking the rules of language overlapped with footage of nature, inscrutable voice recordings, strange noises, and classical music....

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Making Space is a film about trying to find oneself in the constant flow of change and renewal, navigating through the anxiety that comes with not knowing where ‘home’ is, and finally letting go of the need of finding one single person, place, or ans...

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 the most experimental among the 20th-century British writer's literary works, from which the young fil...

A representation of my own memory during the course of this year, illustrated by visuals....

(1970) color; 5 min...

A portrait of Eric de Kuyper....

The film began as a record of the painter Joseph Glin and his series of paintings inspired by "La Maison Des Mortes" by Guillaume Apollinaire. After filming Joe destroyed the paintings and closed his gallery, Shekhina, where the paintings were filmed...

The story of Jacob wrestling the angel at the stream called Jabbok....

A short film spelling Tokyo in hiragana....