Movies: Avant garde

  • 1984
    Joe's Maison

    Joe's Maison (1984)

    Joe's Maison

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    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...

    Joe's Maison
  • 1969
    Gloria in the Glass

    Gloria in the Glass (1969)

    Gloria in the Glass

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    1 minute, color, silent 16mm...

    Gloria in the Glass
  • 1977
    Peripeteia I

    Peripeteia I (1977)

    Peripeteia I

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    Peripeteia I and Peripeteia II, shot by the artist in Oregon’s rainforest, alone and without electricity....

    Peripeteia I
  • 1992
    Han (on the sun)

    Han (on the sun) (1992)

    Han (on the sun)

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    Han closes a trilogy that began with Ere erera baleibu... (1968) and continued with Impressions en haute atmosphère (1991), which goes from the microcosm of atoms (Ere Erera) to the macrocosm of cosmic galaxies. After an "informal" abstraction obtain...

    Han (on the sun)
  • 1976
    Head

    Head (1976)

    Head

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    Staggeringly simple films: a man itching his back, a man thinking, a man yawning, but like the works of Samuel Beckett, these minute gestures stand in as grand statements of the human condition, akin to the films of Bas Jan Ader and Marcel Broodthaer...

    Head
  • 2021
    (Always) Next To Me

    (Always) Next To Me (2021)

    (Always) Next To Me

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    (Always) Next to Me is a 16mm film that pairs abstract sequences of plants developed directly on the film emulsion with intertitles briefly describing what was going on for me personally at the moment the plants were collected. I started the film at...

    (Always) Next To Me
  • 1976
    Skyworks:

    Skyworks: "Light, Lighten, Lightning" (Three Mile Drop) (1976)

    Skyworks: "Light, Lighten, Lightning" (Three Mile Drop)

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    16mm film (color, sound); 16 min....

    Skyworks:
  • 2020
    Parental Leave

    Parental Leave (2020)

    Parental Leave

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    "Images and sounds culled from the first few months with my daughter, sometimes resembling that of a family group chat, where pictures and videos are shared; small moments. The film is full of joy, and full of uncertainty, barely holding itself toget...

    Parental Leave
  • 2009
    Envío 21

    Envío 21 (2009)

    Envío 21

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    For Barbara Figueroa...

    Envío 21
  • 1969
    Stairs, Tunnels and Mirrors

    Stairs, Tunnels and Mirrors (1969)

    Stairs, Tunnels and Mirrors

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    "1969 period. In the beginning of this experimental film a figure in white ascends spiral staircases and escalators and moves away from the camera down endless tunnels and corridors. A model in a black leotard is painted white, turned into art. Anoth...

    Stairs, Tunnels and Mirrors
  • 2003
    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8 (2003)

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8

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    An avant-garde meditation on obsolete technology. The film is of a 1930s Rheinmetall typewriter owned by the director. The film itself is projected by a 1960s-era Victoria 8 projector. This exhibit was displayed at the Museum of Modern Art....

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8
  • 2008
    In A Year With 13 Deaths

    In A Year With 13 Deaths (2008)

    In A Year With 13 Deaths

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    Light painting and nature imagery are captured in 13 shots of different points of luminescence, on the 13th anniversary of Schwartz’s mother’s passing, and as a homage to Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s personal 'In a Year with Thirteen Moons' (1978)....

    In A Year With 13 Deaths
  • 2002
    72

    72 (2002)

    72

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    72 follows a teenage taxicab driver in Columbus, Mississippi multitasking to keep his job....

    72
  • 2003
    From Pompeii to Xenia

    From Pompeii to Xenia (2003)

    From Pompeii to Xenia

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    From Pompeii to Xenia puts in echo times of innocence struck by disaster: the lightning tornado which had beaten down on the American city of Xénia in 1974 answers, at thousands of kilometers in distance and centuries apart, the mythical eruption of ...

    From Pompeii to Xenia
  • 2010
    Envío 24

    Envío 24 (2010)

    Envío 24

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    Filmed in London, sent to Paris. For Helga Fanderl. "Dear Helga, today I have recieved a postcard from Chile. Shaking folds and tearing invisible strata, I aim to wander through this city". J.M....

    Envío 24
  • 2018
    A 180-Degree Revolving Cliff

    A 180-Degree Revolving Cliff (2018)

    A 180-Degree Revolving Cliff

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    The wife lost her sense of time in the loops of life, becoming the gears of social machinery. The husband is a writer who has the spirit of rebellion. But under the pressure of the family and the change of the times, his spirit began to get confuse. ...

    A 180-Degree Revolving Cliff
  • 1977
    Mission to Mongo

    Mission to Mongo (1977)

    Mission to Mongo

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    First, I wanted to make a kind of reflexively impoverished Busby Berkeley extravaganza. Second, I was interested in juxtaposing two cultural artifacts–which could be schematized as East/West, socialism/capitalism, propaganda/entertainment, as well as...

    Mission to Mongo
  • 1978
    Batsu

    Batsu (1978)

    Batsu

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    An experimental short....

    Batsu
  • 2017
    Choirs of the Eye: Live at The Stone

    Choirs of the Eye: Live at The Stone (2017)

    Choirs of the Eye: Live at The Stone

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    Filmed in August of 2015 at The Stone in New York City, Kayo Dot performed their debut album Choirs Of The Eye in its entirety for a group of fewer than 75 fans....

    Choirs of the Eye: Live at The Stone
  • 2018
    Howl of a Gypsy Sunflower

    Howl of a Gypsy Sunflower (2018)

    Howl of a Gypsy Sunflower

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    A dark and visceral journey. A language that tears apart the morbid nature of the dead-old primal human eyes. No warning was given. No mercy was shown....

    Howl of a Gypsy Sunflower