Avant Garde Movies

People are punished not for their sins, but by their sins and this is the most severe and proper punishment.

An old woman is carrying shopping bags. A child with a gun is riding a scooter. Birds are flying. A city is falling. A party is lit.

"I came across an old industrial film by Siemens on computer and their language. To better appreciate the film I first of all cut off the sound, I...

A faceless protagonist witnesses the alienation of gentrification as his home is overtaken by development. the forces behind it are demanding him to...

An abstract experimental short film from Jordan Belson.

Casa Loma was the unfinished dream mansion of Canadian industrial magnate Henry Pellatt. A self-made millionaire, Pellatt was derided by fellow...

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;...

Psyche, made while a student at USC, shows Markopoulos’ developing style and his sensuous use of colour and composition. Shot in the Hollywood...

A young man recalls different moments of his life, reflecting the preservation of memory, the enigma of time and the inevitability of death

“The Glass System, made from images shot in New York and Calcutta, looks at life as it is played out in the streets. Every corner turned...

In an anachronistic dystopian landscape, a beleaguered young man attempts to navigate his way through the indie film scene in LA.

Sunny. Semantic sequences guide the gaze, a gaze that is sometimes raised, propelled downwards, then too high or motionless in front of an...

A young man goes through his everyday routine until he realizes that he is completely alone.

A psychedelic journey reproducing in sound and images the hallucinogenic experience of an acid trip, mixing original video with images taken from TV...

In this short film Bert Haanstra gives his vision - from the water – of a tranquil Holland. During filming he held the camera upside down and...

In the stillness of night, a lone man is trapped in a state of sleep paralysis. As darkness closes in, he must confront the ghosts of his past.

Arriving in the US with a background in abstract art, opera, and film—including work with German director Werner Schroeter—Vogl began...

The most beautiful planet deconstructed, played with, and put back together again.

Three weeks to make three films. Filmed in my last semester before College. "Time", "One Night", "8x8".