Avant Garde Movies

  • 1979
    Toilette

    Toilette

    Toilette

    101979HD

    With a video camera, the filmmaker observes piece by piece her body, its forms, movements and sounds. In shots with the forcefulness of graphics, the...

    Toilette
  • 2014
    Now Eat My Script

    Now Eat My Script

    Now Eat My Script

    02014HD

    "Now Eat My Script is a precipice, a fluid solution in which some spectral noises of the self float adrift. Narration takes the role of a pregnant...

    Now Eat My Script
  • 1964
    Go! Go! Go!

    Go! Go! Go!

    Go! Go! Go!

    6.21964HD

    Various forms of everyday motion in and around a city are shown at rapid speed.

    Go! Go! Go!
  • 1981
    Masquerade

    Masquerade

    Masquerade

    81981HD

    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,...

    Masquerade
  • 1966
    Ming Green

    Ming Green

    Ming Green

    5.61966HD

    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...

    Ming Green
  • 1977
    Mission to Mongo

    Mission to Mongo

    Mission to Mongo

    01977HD

    First, I wanted to make a kind of reflexively impoverished Busby Berkeley extravaganza. Second, I was interested in juxtaposing two cultural...

    Mission to Mongo
  • 1965
    Aufzeichnungen

    Aufzeichnungen

    Aufzeichnungen

    01965HD

    Like "Sackgasse", a brilliantly filmed and edited impression of a big city, underpinned by groovy jazz rhythms.

    Aufzeichnungen
  • 1962
    The Sluice

    The Sluice

    The Sluice

    01962HD

    Sky and walls, a liana of water pipes, dilapidated backyards, cracks in walls, cracked walls full of lost, enigmatic children's signs, rusty railway...

    The Sluice
  • 1969
    The Midnight Party

    The Midnight Party

    The Midnight Party

    5.31969HD

    A short film where circus performers entertain children.

    The Midnight Party
  • 1972
    Sexual Meditation: Hotel

    Sexual Meditation: Hotel

    Sexual Meditation: Hotel

    5.21972HD

    This film takes its cue from that ultimate situation of Sex/Med/masturbation - the loft-and-lonely hotel room. It is thus easily twice the length and...

    Sexual Meditation: Hotel
  • 1977
    Untitled

    Untitled

    Untitled

    01977HD

    "Untitled begins with a flat, out-of-focus, reddish-pink screen on which blurry white patterns quickly appear and disappear. After awhile a space...

    Untitled
  • 1970
    Rhythm and Environment

    Rhythm and Environment

    Rhythm and Environment

    01970HD

    3-minute experimental animation based on the techniques of John Whitney.

    Rhythm and Environment
  • 2001
    The Ground

    The Ground

    The Ground

    6.22001HD

    What lives in the space between the stones, in the space cupped between my hand and my chest? Filmmaker/stonemason. A tower or ruin of remembrance....

    The Ground
  • 2003
    Don't Explain

    Don't Explain

    Don't Explain

    02003HD

    A city symphony of kinetic movement in the concrete jungle. A cacophony of textures, layers and surfaces moving in unison and discord yearning for an...

    Don't Explain
  • 1970
    Fluxfilm No. 37

    Fluxfilm No. 37

    Fluxfilm No. 37

    51970HD

    Face going out of focus by layering sheets of plastic between camera and subject.

    Fluxfilm No. 37
  • 2025
    A Small Passage of Time

    A Small Passage of Time

    A Small Passage of Time

    02025HD

    An experiment with three dimensions in a moment of clarity: the focus of the camera's lens towards the present, the speed of the train and the...

    A Small Passage of Time
  • 2012
    Burning Folk: A Road Movie

    Burning Folk: A Road Movie

    Burning Folk: A Road Movie

    02012HD

    Three slackers from Grand Rapids drive across America in an old motorhome searching for a mysterious folk music festival in the desert. Along the...

    Burning Folk: A Road Movie
  • 1930
    Pharmacy

    Pharmacy

    Pharmacy

    01930HD

    A photogram, used previously only within art photography, is adapted to create abstract moving patterns.

    Pharmacy
  • 1987
    The Dead Tree

    The Dead Tree

    The Dead Tree

    6.51987HD

    The veneer of the story is a tale of chance love: two French expatriates strike up a chance romance when they meet on a ship headed back to South...

    The Dead Tree
  • 2015
    And How Godmilow Expanded It

    And How Godmilow Expanded It

    And How Godmilow Expanded It

    02015HD

    Caspar Stracke replicates Jill Godmilow's replica of Harun Faroci's film "Inextinguishable Fire."

    And How Godmilow Expanded It