Avant Garde Movies

  • 1968
    Sonata for Pen, Brush, and Ruler

    Sonata for Pen, Brush, and Ruler

    Sonata for Pen, Brush, and Ruler

    01968HD

    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...

    Sonata for Pen, Brush, and Ruler
  • 1995
    Unstable Materials

    Unstable Materials

    Unstable Materials

    61995HD

    This film is made by some beautiful and unique alchemical transformations of the film material itself. It is a visual expedition into the world of...

    Unstable Materials
  • 2022
    Empty City

    Empty City

    Empty City

    02022HD

    Presenting a woman, a female statue, a breathing tree, and a fish out of water, an unorthodox love story unfolds with the growth of limbs and...

    Empty City
  • 1993
    December Hide-and-Go-Seek

    December Hide-and-Go-Seek

    December Hide-and-Go-Seek

    5.61993HD

    "Ryuta is 5 years old. Even though he is my son, I sometimes wonder what this small person is to me. Even though I see his joys and sadnesses and...

    December Hide-and-Go-Seek
  • 2023
    Blows of Wind

    Blows of Wind

    Blows of Wind

    8.52023HD

    You're waiting,aren't you?

    Blows of Wind
  • 2008
    Rhythm 06

    Rhythm 06

    Rhythm 06

    02008HD

    Filmed in a decaying housing estate in east London, "Rhythm 06" renders the outer trappings of internal collapse, a choreography of layers of the...

    Rhythm 06
  • 2023
    Sea of Glass

    Sea of Glass

    Sea of Glass

    02023HD

    The creation of an infinite space. Light modulations over water surfaces, conjugating into multiple alterations. Time and light being reshaped...

    Sea of Glass
  • 2019
    Samuraï

    Samuraï

    Samuraï

    02019HD

    A particular day of a samurai

    Samuraï
  • 2014
    Second Sighted

    Second Sighted

    Second Sighted

    62014HD

    Obscure signs portend a looming, indecipherable slump. An oracular decoding of the landscape.

    Second Sighted
  • 1988
    Devil's Circuit

    Devil's Circuit

    Devil's Circuit

    61988HD

    A film in which the one 60-story skyscraper that soars in the spaces between roofs spins with incredible speed. I centered the circumference with its...

    Devil's Circuit
  • 2015
    Everybody's Cage

    Everybody's Cage

    Everybody's Cage

    02015HD

    In “Everybody’s Cage”, German film artist Sandra Trostel turns John Cage and his approach to art into a tangible fascination,...

    Everybody's Cage
  • 1983
    On the Corner

    On the Corner

    On the Corner

    01983HD

    An urban ballet performed by street children.

    On the Corner
  • 1970
    Into the Meridian

    Into the Meridian

    Into the Meridian

    01970HD

    A musical audiovisual journey in four parts. A young man finds himself unexpectedly taking an audiovisual odyssey into a world of surreality, slowly...

    Into the Meridian
  • 1987
    Nocturnes

    Nocturnes

    Nocturnes

    01987HD

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

    Nocturnes
  • 1968
    Der Schachtel

    Der Schachtel

    Der Schachtel

    01968HD

    Die Schachtel (The Box), 1968. 35mm film transfer to videotape, black-and-white, sound; 29 minutes.

    Der Schachtel
  • 1999
    Ad Vice

    Ad Vice

    Ad Vice

    01999HD

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

    Ad Vice
  • 2016
    Goodbye Philippines

    Goodbye Philippines

    Goodbye Philippines

    02016HD

    Goodbye Philippines surveys an undead landscape, textured by phantoms. It is as if this feeling of a legacy regards tradition and cultural custom as...

    Goodbye Philippines
  • 2021
    The Contact Enigma

    The Contact Enigma

    The Contact Enigma

    62021HD

    Three people become connected through mysterious circumstances involving electronic devices which spontaneously appeared in their world.

    The Contact Enigma
  • 1988
    Satrapy

    Satrapy

    Satrapy

    01988HD

    Rephotographed pornographic playing cards rhythmically intrude upon a piercing 5-beat score of different-sized black parallel lines, creating an...

    Satrapy
  • 2017
    Ether Reveries (Suite for Thérèse Rivière no.2)

    Ether Reveries (Suite for Thérèse Rivière no.2)

    Ether Reveries (Suite for Thérèse Rivière no.2)

    02017HD

    Drawing together footage, photographs and texts from archival sources as well as the artist’s personal collection of materials, Yto...

    Ether Reveries (Suite for Thérèse Rivière no.2)