Avant Garde Movies

Short experimental film.

1 minute, color, silent 16mm

a haiku films, a poem by Nha Thuyen

Chopin "Nocturnes" accompany this study in black and white inspired by Huysman's decadent novel "À rebours".

“This film offers a metacinematic study of tempo and change and a figure of velocity. […] Ota recorded [three different locations in...

This work is one film of the omnibus ‘Seeing’. About ‘Seeing’: “Filmmaker Matsumoto Toshio, a pioneer of experimental...

One of the most iconic sequences in the history of Hollywood cinema (from Alfred Hitchcock’s NORTH BY NORTHWEST) is deconstructed and...

A disorienting realm where reality itself flickers and fragments. Through a visceral exploration of digital distortion and failing verification...

“My attempt at a filmic interpretation of Haraguchi Noriyuki’s ‘Inclined Horizon,’ a three-dimensional physical work featured...

Childhood memories of the author's life using images of dance performances with music from a genre she discovered in her adolescence. Both marked her...

Idiosyncratic composer, unique musician and ground-breaking film director…..Frank Zappa packed more into his short lifetime than most men would...

After encountering Lensface at the 2019 Unnamed Footage Festival, Filmmaker Travis Z. (Cabin Fever 2016, The Midnight Man) became obsessed with the...

Migrating by sea from Holland as an eight-year-old, Dirk de Bruyn went on to be a doyen of Australian experimental cinema. But as this intimate film...

Ken Burns Says "Jazz" 3 Billion Times (actually 2.97 bn) in Under 3.5 Minutes

From June 2021 to June 2022, Justin "Jastun" Bland records whatever that is in front of him. He presents an abstract montage of collected videos...

A woman is terrorised in an existential hell.... Otherwise known as life itself.

Filmed in a decaying housing estate in east London, "Rhythm 06" renders the outer trappings of internal collapse, a choreography of layers of the...

A film motivated by nothing (but daily life and (my) vision). It represents nothing, it signifies nothing. There’s no hidden meaning, no...

A woman comes to terms with her life on her last day in town.

Lijn II is a tiny portrait of a friend made on a contact printer from scraps of a film that was lost