Avant Garde Movies

Drawing together footage, photographs and texts from archival sources as well as the artist’s personal collection of materials, Yto...

A visual daydream of a late afternoon swim in the waters of a summer in Sicily.

The film is an allegory in which the attempt is made to show the inner process of movement of the composer's soul at the time of the birth of music.

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

A married woman has an affair. She gets pregnant by her lover and they live serenely together, although war is thundering towards their city. Despite...

Sitting on a promenade in nice with a sign: Watch me, that’s all.

A young father struggles with his art and an infatuation, while his young daughter may be the key to saving the future, if the weird aliens and...

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

Part of the larger filmic Four Journeys Into Mystic Time, in this work director Shirley Clarke makes use of a dancer’s body not only as the...

For the first time I am animating hand-painted engraved cut-outs on a full-color background. The film is mood-filled: A duel scene in a snowy forest,...

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

A series of individual portraits of friends and family, all interrelated in what might be called a branch growing directly from the trunk of SONGS 1...

Traditional Northwestern Indigenous spiritual images combined with cutting-edge computer animation in this surreal short film about the power of...

Safe places to view from.

Thanks to his myriad film roles, Lon Chaney is known as “the man of a thousand faces,” and you could say that the early horror era never...

Ivan Ladislav hides a true chamber of wonders behind the clear, mathematically abstract structure of his films and videos, meticulously compiled...

The world appears black on black until it separates from itself, looks at itself, includes itself, and sees colour.

One of Takahiko Iimura's (and modern art's) earliest works in conceptual video, A Chair entirely consists of a steady (and usually ghosted) image of...