Avant Garde Movies

A hypnotic mise-en-abyme constructed from JVC camcorder footage of a parking garage. Produced in tribute to teacher, filmmaker and video artist...

‘Films to Break Projectors’ glues, scrapes and splices 35mm, 16mm and 8mm film to create unprojectable celluloid collages. Reanimating...

By using an intervalometer and positioning the shutter to remain open between frames, I was able to capture the mystery of what happens during sleep,...

A bursting of mostly golden light forms as if heralding sunlight itself in their hurried (single-frame) display.

Concerned with processes of assembly, CHOIR brings together disparate bodies of material and archival technologies into dissonant concert. It is a...

Common Mistakes uses four synonyms for the word "mistake" (fallacy, error, accident, and blunder) to present a sample of widely held "truths" that...

Weston Eastward, owner of a small delivery service, hires Garrett Britches to deliver packages to unusual clients, whom lead Garret to a dark secret.

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

This short film follows a man lost in the woods driven by his fear of the unknown.

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...

Through heavily distorted fragments of Steven Spielberg’s iconic films, this short examines memory, nostalgia, and how art imprints itself on...

Tugging Diary documents a footbridge over a year between August 2019 to January 2021. Due to social unrest and the uncertainty of various immediate...

Shot in a series of long-takes over several days, the film follows a flower shop attendant (played by Devereaux, then actually employed at a small...

You're waiting,aren't you?

"I came across an old industrial film by Siemens on computer and their language. To better appreciate the film I first of all cut off the sound, I...

For five grueling years, Li Ning documents his struggle to achieve success as an avant-garde artist while contending with the pressures of modern...

A short film spelling Tokyo in hiragana.

A hand-painted film photographically step-printed so that the thicket-like lines of paint are “played-off” against some centered...

A photogram, used previously only within art photography, is adapted to create abstract moving patterns.

Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit...