Avant Garde Movies

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

A Green Ray that never features. Instead, we sense it, seeing beyond our own eyes, beyond the hills, we sense it for an instant. We are plunged into...

This black-and-white nightmare gives Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale
of the dark id a campy, gender-flipping treatment reminiscent...

Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance

"The video "Between the ocean" is a juxtaposition of interior and exterior spaces in Japan that are somehow connected. The material for this video...

"We Go Past Future" is an experimental paper collage film by Anna Malina. The film reimagines a series of Soviet films from 1919 to 1953, blending...

The Beat poet Chuck Miller traveled blind to Inner Mongolia, and he met a shoe repair guy......

A side table and a chest of drawers (played by actors in ingenious soft-sculpture costumes) indulge in a bit of passive-aggressive furniture moving....

16mm film (color, sound); 16 min.

For five grueling years, Li Ning documents his struggle to achieve success as an avant-garde artist while contending with the pressures of modern...

A film about endless processes. Images reappearing. New sentences being written.

A group of leftist activists expose the exploitation of immigrant workers by a criminal network with connections to local government officials. The...

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

An employee at the Getty owned Pierre Hotel in New York City wondered why there were so many Germans being hired and staying at The Pierre during...

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;...

The film is constructed from video material that the author shot in 1999 at the horseshoe factory in Karlovac (closed in 2005). It consists of 99...

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.

A radical series of images from Karl Ring.