Avant Garde Movies

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

A film constructed from a succession of drawings on old books.

"From the 1969 exhibition, Bride in the Bath is shown in its sculptural form – a life cast of a model's body lying back in a bath and draped in...

An avant-garde film presented as part of an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. From MoMA's catalog: "For the monumental installation Play Dead;...

A minimalist monochromatic film frame is projected through a glass pane fogged via a humidification system. The planular drift of the projected frame...

In Pareidolia, analog abstract patterns made on 16mm film are used as source material for finding similar figurative images, interpreted by an online...

Around the sleeping bodies, some presences occupy the architecture and move around the space in obscure activities: nothing of their actions is...

An experimental short by Tao Zhou.

Going back to the places of crime scenes and urban legends, a Visual Bizarre Adventure in Daytime.

After five years of intense work on identity, an alchemical quest for the depths, after nine films and films / actions where the actresses' gestures...

Heineken is an abstraction based on an image from a six pack of beer. The extraction of color and transformation of the source image are...

A symbolic rape by the Devil and a renewal of self worth.

A post-modern fantasy based on Lefcadio Hearne's short story "Jikininki."

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

“Last August, several filmmakers joined me to repair the splices in Markopoulos’s Eniaios. I interrupted our work for a moment; the...

Demonstrates the visual logic (and illogic) of sign combining with limited movements of camera for panning and zooming.

16mm film negative sanded with surfboard shaping tools, sex wax melted on, squirted, dripped, splashed, sprayed and rubbed with donuts, zinc oxide,...

A small portrait of the volatility of intimacy and of breaking free from abusive cycles: made in response to a year of collapsing relationships and...

Hotel guests look restrained, sedated in the diffuse light of the service provider’s shimmering cage. A network of joists, pilasters and...

“This film was made for an event that included an exhibition of artwork by Eishi Yamatomo. Yamatomo’s metal sculpture is often finished...