Movies: Avant garde

Paleo is a video clip shoot at the famous homonymous music festival in the French canton of Vaud in Switzerland, where many hippie-techno-pagans gather every summer since 1977. The editing style is a tribute to the reworking of psychedelic theories a...

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

In What’s Ours and What We Are, images, motifs and words that originally served a particular political agenda are playfully manipulated to distort and re-contextualize their original status, satirically articulating the purpose of propaganda which is...

Short film made with underexposed video footage....

A psychedelic journey reproducing in sound and images the hallucinogenic experience of an acid trip, mixing original video with images taken from TV news, porn films and army stock movies. ...Substitution Number 4...

A short Avant-Garde experimental film...

Experimental short film exploring New York City's multicultural history through the eyes of three chosen individuals....

Women, landscapes and manifestations of color meet experimentally with the possibilities of the artisanal copying technique on 16mm....

For Barbara Figueroa...

"This film was presented as part of my 1969 thesis on Max Ernst. It was a personal tribute where I filmed his collages, then intercut live footage I shot with other reference material into a surreal visual collage." - Penny Slinger...

"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 black silk coated in resin. The footage is cut with film I shot of a model lying back in a bath in which b...

An experimental collage film pieced together from random bits of 16mm film strips....

Witnessing my daughters passage though childhood with a 35mm Russian movie camera....

A sci-fi filmed in Mount Shasta, CA, Morro Bay, CA and Cape Romain, SC....

Sportello Quattro, filmed during a residency at the American Academy in Rome, is about immigration, work and community among people of color in contemporary Rome, Italy....

I killed two fish for this project, and made them suffer as little as possible, in order to film them and in order to eat them. Attempting to uncover something about either the natural process(killing and eating) or the more removed process(filming a...

Drawing together footage, photographs and texts from archival sources as well as the artist’s personal collection of materials, Yto Barrada’s new film is as much a poetic enigma as it is a portrait of identity. Ether Reveries (Suite for Thérèse Riviè...

A meditation on light and water; landscape as self-portraiture....

Using the unstability of digital to pursue the unstability of film....

One room, two half bodies, a silent relationship....