Avant Garde Movies

  • 2021
    The Song of the Shirt

    The Song of the Shirt

    The Song of the Shirt

    02021HD

    The work departs from Ernst Toller’s play “Die Maschinenstürmer” (1922), but relocates its themes along the remnants and...

    The Song of the Shirt
  • 2019
    Pareidolia

    Pareidolia

    Pareidolia

    02019HD

    In Pareidolia, analog abstract patterns made on 16mm film are used as source material for finding similar figurative images, interpreted by an online...

    Pareidolia
  • 2023
    Cotton Candy Chocolate River

    Cotton Candy Chocolate River

    Cotton Candy Chocolate River

    02023HD

    You and AI at the end of the world.

    Cotton Candy Chocolate River
  • 1949
    The Lead Shoes

    The Lead Shoes

    The Lead Shoes

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    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...

    The Lead Shoes
  • 2023
    Xiuhtecuhtli

    Xiuhtecuhtli

    Xiuhtecuhtli

    02023HD

    This is a rhythmic invocation of the ancestral fire, in which dazzling flames reanimate bones and natural elements. This is the shining of colour.

    Xiuhtecuhtli
  • 1989
    REQUIEM

    REQUIEM

    REQUIEM

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    REQUIEM
  • 1987
    Accidental Confessions

    Accidental Confessions

    Accidental Confessions

    01987HD

    Scenes from a demolition derby event are combined with statements taken from automobile insurance claims in Accidental Confessions. In these claims,...

    Accidental Confessions
  • 1969
    Gloria in the Glass

    Gloria in the Glass

    Gloria in the Glass

    01969HD

    1 minute, color, silent 16mm

    Gloria in the Glass
  • 2017
    Shedding Light

    Shedding Light

    Shedding Light

    02017HD

    I killed two fish for this project, and made them suffer as little as possible, in order to film them and in order to eat them. Attempting to uncover...

    Shedding Light
  • 2026
    How I feel, how I want to feel

    How I feel, how I want to feel

    How I feel, how I want to feel

    02026HD

    Short musical / experimental / collage film inspired and influenced by People Like Us' (a.k.a. Vicki Bennett) early short films.

    How I feel, how I want to feel
  • 1973
    Ikarus

    Ikarus

    Ikarus

    01973HD

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

    Ikarus
  • 1971
    35, boulevard General Koenig

    35, boulevard General Koenig

    35, boulevard General Koenig

    91971HD

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

    35, boulevard General Koenig
  • 1967
    Eros, O Basileus

    Eros, O Basileus

    Eros, O Basileus

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    Structured in nine tableaux each a study of a simple action or situation involving a lone, naked figure, the blind Eros, searching for fulfilment,...

    Eros, O Basileus
  • 1996
    Device

    Device

    Device

    01996HD

    Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance

    Device
  • 2011
    Mote It Be

    Mote It Be

    Mote It Be

    02011HD

    This film concentrated the crystal energy of earth nature, expended the trace and texture of mote. It try to use powerful flicker image to tune up...

    Mote It Be
  • 2011
    Le Guignon

    Le Guignon

    Le Guignon

    62011HD

    Jon Rafman's short features computer-generated renders of the Twin Towers and a narration from Charles Baudelaire's "Le Guignon."

    Le Guignon
  • 2022
    Making Space

    Making Space

    Making Space

    02022HD

    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...

    Making Space
  • 1983
    Winter Light

    Winter Light

    Winter Light

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    Though best known for his collage films, Lawrence Jordan here makes exquisite study of the different aspects of light lilting through the early...

    Winter Light
  • 2011
    Herr Getty

    Herr Getty

    Herr Getty

    02011HD

    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...

    Herr Getty
  • 1977
    The Heavens

    The Heavens

    The Heavens

    01977HD

    "The Heavens"–Symmetrical chaos envelops a lone, topless man, whose symmetrical abstractions conjure up a psychadelic version of DaVinci's...

    The Heavens