Avant Garde Movies

  • 1976
    Skyworks:

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

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

    01976HD

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

    Skyworks:
  • 2020
    Sehnsucht

    Sehnsucht

    Sehnsucht

    02020HD

    In this film-poem Browzan illustrates his experience living in Berlin between 2016-17. Browzan uses collage, still photography, video and boomerangs...

    Sehnsucht
  • 2015
    Fear and Loathing in Inner Mongolia

    Fear and Loathing in Inner Mongolia

    Fear and Loathing in Inner Mongolia

    02015HD

    The Beat poet Chuck Miller traveled blind to Inner Mongolia, and he met a shoe repair guy......

    Fear and Loathing in Inner Mongolia
  • 2003
    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8

    02003HD

    An avant-garde meditation on obsolete technology. The film is of a 1930s Rheinmetall typewriter owned by the director. The film itself is projected...

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8
  • 1978
    Earth

    Earth

    Earth

    01978HD

    Flashing lights illuminate black faces and dark eyes, oscillating between darkness and inverted lightness.

    Earth
  • 2023
    A Fly Floating In The Midst Of The Milk

    A Fly Floating In The Midst Of The Milk

    A Fly Floating In The Midst Of The Milk

    52023HD

    Disturbed by an irrational aversion to his house owner's unsettling left eye, man contemplates murder to escape the disturbing presence and restore...

    A Fly Floating In The Midst Of The Milk
  • 2020
    Perdurare

    Perdurare

    Perdurare

    02020HD

    A meditation on time and its effect on memory. About the rocks the sea tries to drag away from the shore, towards the ocean, with every wave.

    Perdurare
  • 2025
    A Small Passage of Time

    A Small Passage of Time

    A Small Passage of Time

    02025HD

    An experiment with three dimensions in a moment of clarity: the focus of the camera's lens towards the present, the speed of the train and the...

    A Small Passage of Time
  • 1980
    Dr. Jeckyll and Ms. Hyde

    Dr. Jeckyll and Ms. Hyde

    Dr. Jeckyll and Ms. Hyde

    01980HD

    This black-and-white nightmare gives Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale
of the dark id a campy, gender-flipping treatment reminiscent...

    Dr. Jeckyll and Ms. Hyde
  • 2005
    Kolkata

    Kolkata

    Kolkata

    82005HD

    A portrait of North Kolkata (Calcutta), this film searches the streets for the ebb and flow of humanity and reflects the changing landscape of a city...

    Kolkata
  • 1988
    Norm

    Norm

    Norm

    01988HD

    A twisted and macabre film by Mróz-Raynoch, which explores an exhibition where the guests are as grotesque as the exhibits (stylistically akin...

    Norm
  • 2022
    Fire Shall Come

    Fire Shall Come

    Fire Shall Come

    02022HD

    Video art piece by Michigan artist Gio Orlando.

    Fire Shall Come
  • 1994
    Scattering Stars

    Scattering Stars

    Scattering Stars

    71994HD

    A paean to light, a glittering bodice of a film that rapturously unfolds its subject with a shimmering luminosity.

    Scattering Stars
  • 2016
    Fuddy Duddy

    Fuddy Duddy

    Fuddy Duddy

    02016HD

    FUDDY DUDDY uses the motif of the grid to blow it to pieces. Being occupied with structural film, I repeatedly draw 'frame plans', using grid...

    Fuddy Duddy
  • 2022
    Not a Day Goes By

    Not a Day Goes By

    Not a Day Goes By

    02022HD

    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...

    Not a Day Goes By
  • 2026
    LYTLE 2014

    LYTLE 2014

    LYTLE 2014

    02026HD

    An argument unfolds in the midst of everything else that has ever happened.

    LYTLE 2014
  • 1966
    He

    He

    He

    5.51966HD

    Surreal film melding documentary footage of Chicago and its residents, featuring fast paced montage sequences set against a rollicking 1960s musical...

    He
  • 2023
    Looking through a Glass Darkly

    Looking through a Glass Darkly

    Looking through a Glass Darkly

    02023HD

    An experimental media installation of three windows exploring fragments of liminality. Three unique re-constructions of experiential instances...

    Looking through a Glass Darkly
  • 2020
    at her heels a stone

    at her heels a stone

    at her heels a stone

    02020HD

    An essay on the brutality of beauty and innocence in a hostile world.

    at her heels a stone
  • 1956
    Color of the Day

    Color of the Day

    Color of the Day

    01956HD

    Portrait of the streets from downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul.

    Color of the Day