Movies: Avant garde

A meditative journey through an ancient and desolate land enveloped in an ever darkening mist....

An early video curio pitched between performance art and George Méliès’ trick films, Drawers sees Colab artist Andrea Callard training her Sony Portapak on a rigged dresser for some endearingly primitive magic. - Max Goldberg...

Three lives caught in limbo between dreams, reality, and oblivion....

Experimental film by Motoharu Jonouchi comprised of both archival footage from the 1960s Japanese student riots and dramatised re-enactions. It was created as a tribute to Michiko Kamba, a student victim of the riots....

Short experimental 16mm film....

“One can not speak of time as a thing in itself. It is movements and variations that give the feeling of time. Men have always linked time and spatial movement.” - Yo Ota...

“The visual harmony of the landscape is disturbed by a screen that allows us to see into the distance (television). The film is composed of six scenes that feature a television in the landscape. The speed of the television (in NTSC) is 30 frames per ...

Caspar Stracke replicates Jill Godmilow's replica of Harun Faroci's film "Inextinguishable Fire."...

Vast horizons and hollow landscapes. Figures in funeral gowns swaying from reality. Withering within without wunnienuther, we wandered windswept as heartswept....

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

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

"The video "Between the ocean" is a juxtaposition of interior and exterior spaces in Japan that are somehow connected. The material for this video montage was recorded in Japan in fall 2013 in Tokyo, Fukushima and Tohoku regions." - Claudia Larcher...

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

A short experimental film dedicated to Polish artist Wacław Szpakowski (1883–1973)....

Persian Series #6 begins with what appears to be dried red and yellow rose petals, suddenly shot-thru with blue which causes a shift to violets and greens. This mash of colors thickens and is scored by white and then black, calligraphic lines, which ...

The lives of people are observed within the confines of one, twenty-two story high rise apartment complex and its adjacent courtyard in Trump Village, Brooklyn, New York. Shot from one vantage point over a period of fifteen months, THE BALCONY, specu...

16mm film by Bojan Jovanović....

16mm film by Radoslav Vladić....

The life of painter, dancer and poet Mark Turbyfill, seen in his 70th year, is evoked through Markopoulos’ unique form of cinematic portraiture....

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 ...