Avant Garde Movies

  • 2025
    bubble skin

    bubble skin

    bubble skin

    02025HD

    A disorienting realm where reality itself flickers and fragments. Through a visceral exploration of digital distortion and failing verification...

    bubble skin
  • 1995
    Prelude 1

    Prelude 1

    Prelude 1

    5.51995HD

    Turquoise and maroon-toned thin lines of paint are interspersed with variously toned circular "watermarks" of blotched paint giving-way to...

    Prelude 1
  • 2026
    Breath and Length

    Breath and Length

    Breath and Length

    32026HD

    The debut short film from Edward Pettitt, that blends surrealist imagery with the sounds from The Residents.

    Breath and Length
  • 1990
    Fade to Black

    Fade to Black

    Fade to Black

    01990HD

    In this meditation on contemporary race relations, two black men discuss in voiceover certain “casual” events in life and cinema that are...

    Fade to Black
  • 2005
    Vide-Uhhh!

    Vide-Uhhh!

    Vide-Uhhh!

    02005HD

    Produced using a VHS VCR and a digital camcorder, Vide-Uhhh! is an experimental piece, showcasing the VCR recording itself as Jesse England takes it...

    Vide-Uhhh!
  • 1962
    Ahasverus

    Ahasverus

    Ahasverus

    01962HD

    Short experimental 16mm film.

    Ahasverus
  • 1978
    Batsu

    Batsu

    Batsu

    01978HD

    An experimental short.

    Batsu
  • 1995
    Prelude 5

    Prelude 5

    Prelude 5

    5.31995HD

    This section is very similar to Prelude 4 except that it is composed of extremely thin-lined colors and sharply delineated shapes which are...

    Prelude 5
  • 2020
    A Portrait: A Philosophy

    A Portrait: A Philosophy

    A Portrait: A Philosophy

    02020HD

    The first part of director Seth Tyler Black’s Portraits triptych, A Portrait: A Philosophy paints the cyclical nature of the lifespan of an...

    A Portrait: A Philosophy
  • 2021
    Taxidrome

    Taxidrome

    Taxidrome

    102021HD

    To fly a – way from/out of death, don’t hire a taxidermist but take a ride in this taxidrome! Series of 41 Moving Images - this analogy...

    Taxidrome
  • 2019
    Number Two

    Number Two

    Number Two

    02019HD

    Number Two’ is an audio visual work which materializes the definite possibilities of sight and the existence of light in space with the drama...

    Number Two
  • 2011
    Mote It Be

    Mote It Be

    Mote It Be

    02011HD

    This film concentrated the crystal energy of earth nature, expended the trace and texture of mote. It try to use powerful flicker image to tune up...

    Mote It Be
  • 2010
    The Suppliant

    The Suppliant

    The Suppliant

    62010HD

    Filmed in 2003 while staying in a Brooklyn Heights apartment, the work centers on a small Greek statue revealed in shifting morning and afternoon...

    The Suppliant
  • 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
  • 2008
    Studies in Transfalumination

    Studies in Transfalumination

    Studies in Transfalumination

    02008HD

    Modified flashlights and stripped down video projectors explore the visual complexities of the ordinary world: a tunnel, a clump of grass, a...

    Studies in Transfalumination
  • 2009
    Dahlia

    Dahlia

    Dahlia

    6.52009HD

    This work is one film of the omnibus ‘Seeing’. About ‘Seeing’: “Filmmaker Matsumoto Toshio, a pioneer of experimental...

    Dahlia
  • 2011
    Christ Church – Saint James

    Christ Church – Saint James

    Christ Church – Saint James

    72011HD

    In the spring of 1998, Christ Church - Saint James, an historic black church in Toronto's Little Italy, was destroyed by arson. All that remained...

    Christ Church – Saint James
  • 2024
    After James Benning's YouTube

    After James Benning's YouTube

    After James Benning's YouTube

    02024HD

    Divided into 26 parts, an attempt to remake James Benning's film, YouTube (2011) with similar internet footage after 13 years.

    After James Benning's YouTube
  • 2020
    Casual Workers

    Casual Workers

    Casual Workers

    02020HD

    An abstract perspective into two young South African workers in the heart of Johannesburg's industrial sector during Covid-19

    Casual Workers
  • 1972
    Mis-Takes

    Mis-Takes

    Mis-Takes

    31972HD

    A colorful collage, with a subtle ecology theme, made largely from footage from trial runs of programs used for many of the other films.

    Mis-Takes