Avant Garde Movies

In 1952, Haanstra made Panta Rhei , another view of Holland through the eyes of a painter and filmmaker. Its poetic images of water, skies and clouds...

“The visual harmony of the landscape is disturbed by a screen that allows us to see into the distance (television). The film is composed of six...

A loop of a guy in Maine hanging out in his room.

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

The third part of director Seth Tyler Black’s Portraits triptych, A Portrait: A Dance is a meditation on an artist’s struggle between...

Scientists and philosophers work to understand animal vision in this multi textured rumination exploring our relationship to the nonhuman world.

Images that take the viewer to the sea, before dark.

Taking place in the fifth reality to be discovered by humanity, Into The Alternate follows an inhabitant and foreign visitor as they struggle to...

The scene is set in front of a French chateau. The camera chases improbable incidents across the screen. Many are constructed out of one of Jordan's...

An artist strives to achieve a state of pure existence. Caught between inertia and movement, her body strains, adapts, and responds to what is...

trees and other things...

Hauntology of the Retrodromomania is an essayistic motion picture, a locomotory legwork, a deambulatory non-rural land survey, a casual journeying in...

The Possible Fog of Heaven is a consideration of the dimensionality of metaphysics and the metaphysics of dimensionality. Elvis speaks for the first...

Persian Series #6 begins with what appears to be dried red and yellow rose petals, suddenly shot-thru with blue which causes a shift to violets and...

One of Paik’s most overtly political and poignant statements, Guadalcanal Requiem is a performance/documentary collage that confronts history,...

I spent a day inside a small abandoned military fort by the sea. With the tide went up and down, I appeared and disappeared into the water.

Images of concrete and stone. A cemetery. Light making its way through the tree leaves.

"Fears and thrills... Part structure (the centerpoint): part improvisation."

Made during the height of the Vietnam War, Stan Brakhage has said of this film that he was hoping to bring some clarity to the subject of war....

Drawing together footage, photographs and texts from archival sources as well as the artist’s personal collection of materials, Yto...