Avant Garde Movies

A young adult's first-hand account of "accidentally becoming human again" after, and with, trauma induced depression. Lo-fi, vulnerable, and uniquely...

In December, 1941, using music by Stravinsky, this film provides a reaction to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. An egg is smashed by a hammer;...

A man’s female friend who just came back from London spends time on the river shore.

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

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

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

The creation of an infinite space. Light modulations over water surfaces, conjugating into multiple alterations. Time and light being reshaped...

Filmed in Zürich. For Robert Beavers. Talking about the illuminated and the un-illuminated.

Dissonant selves dancing around opposition and harmony.

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

A poetic exploration of the presence and absence of a mother.

This portrait of the filmmaker's apartment, painted in the color of the title, was made a few months before his departure from New York. It...

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

A woman rocks a cradle; a man comes to land from the sea, but leaves to view it from a distance.

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

The third part of director Seth Tyler Black’s Portraits triptych, A Portrait: A Dance is a meditation on an artist’s struggle between...

An avant-garde "experimental anthropological poem" from France.

An experimental portrayal of being adrift in a daydream.

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

A chair, a yogurt, and a masked man are guided to find themselves by an unknown entity.