Avant Garde Movies

In the hyperkinetic multichannel video installation Devil’s Peak, Simon Liu surveys the psychogeography of Hong Kong as a feverish dreamscape,...

Poetic and romantic amateur footage of a young couple in a garden, as well as their travels — several spliced films with different plots were...

Spanning an entire day from morning to night, this film interpolates the difference between dreaming and dreams.

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

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

Witnessing my daughters passage though childhood with a 35mm Russian movie camera.

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...

This film is shot to point out the flood of commercial messages in television program, on billboards and megaboards, messages that take over our...

The Futurist is a condensed experience of film viewing, a single 360 degree animated shot in an empty 1920’s cinema where the sound becomes a...

One room, two half bodies, a silent relationship.

An urban ballet performed by street children.

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

The creation of an infinite space. Light modulations over water surfaces, conjugating into multiple alterations. Time and light being reshaped...

An early video curio pitched between performance art and George Méliès’ trick films, Drawers sees Colab artist Andrea Callard...

Against a repetitive trance-inducing loop of four carefully excerpted bars from “Ntsikana’s Bell” (1974, with Johnny Dyani), the...

Experimental short film about the fragility of time

A chair, a yogurt, and a masked man are guided to find themselves by an unknown entity.

An avant-garde "experimental anthropological poem" from France.

An argument unfolds in the midst of everything else that has ever happened.

From 1967-71 Barry Spinello made films without camera or tape recorder by hand drawing both sound and picture directly onto clear 16mm leader. His...