Avant Garde Movies

In 1981, Tomislav Gotovac carried out an unannounced action of being an artist begging for alms wearing a sign "Alms please! Thank you! Begging...

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

A bunch of spectators trapped in a cinema theatre.

Here I am. A mind backed up by delusion of previous condition. Free or humiliated? Who is ashamed? Me or you? It is so hard to share one's secret.

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

A painting of a couple talk to the viewers for a bit.

A ritual of grids, reflections and chasms; a complete state of entropy; a space that devours itself; a vertigo that destroys the gravity of the...

Subtitled “Eros in Psyche” and set to a composition by Tomaso Albinoni, Lawrence Jordan’s rapturous live action short contemplates...

In What’s Ours and What We Are, images, motifs and words that originally served a particular political agenda are playfully manipulated to...

Dark blood red slow shifting tones (often embedded in dark) / (often shot-thru with parallel wave-like lines) composed of all previous shapes and...

Scenes from a demolition derby event are combined with statements taken from automobile insurance claims in Accidental Confessions. In these claims,...

Singly-printed multi-colored watery "blobs" and "feathery" streaks of painted color, dominated by yellows and reds interweaving in complexity until...

This film is composed of three sections created to accompany a piece of music (by Barbara Feldman) on a Homeric poem.

Persian Series #11 begins with a "window" of yellow paint adrift in the full frame of multicolored paint-shapes. Alternating black-space/white-space...

In "The Lead Shoes", we can neither thrust in our eyes nor our ears to help us understand how time flows or how space is. Therefore, Peterson forces...

Dissonant selves dancing around opposition and harmony.

A meditation on time and its effect on memory. About the rocks the sea tries to drag away from the shore, towards the ocean, with every wave.

This engaged reading of the urban black riots of the 1960s references Guy Debord’s Situationist text, “The Decline and Fall of the...

You and AI at the end of the world.