Avant Garde Movies

  • 1930
    A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray

    A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray

    A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray

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    This short film made by László Moholy-Nagy is based on the shadow patterns created by his Light-Space Modulator, an early kinetic...

    A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray
  • 1931
    Portrait of a Young Man in Three Movements

    Portrait of a Young Man in Three Movements

    Portrait of a Young Man in Three Movements

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    This is a non-narrative film, comprised of shots that "portray a certain young man in the terms of the things that he likes", such as the flow of...

    Portrait of a Young Man in Three Movements
  • 1923
    Rhythm 23

    Rhythm 23

    Rhythm 23

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    We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures...

    Rhythm 23
  • 2020
    Watine-Eros & Thanatos

    Watine-Eros & Thanatos

    Watine-Eros & Thanatos

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    A music video directed by experimental director Anna Malina for Catherine Watine's EROS & THANATOS from her 2020 album INTRICATIONS QUANTIQUES.

    Watine-Eros & Thanatos
  • 2024
    From My Room

    From My Room

    From My Room

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    An unseen character observes the cold, harsh world around them while listening to The Beach Boys, hidden away in the safety of their bedroom.

    From My Room
  • 2024
    Nevermore Eleanor

    Nevermore Eleanor

    Nevermore Eleanor

    02024HD

    Nevermore Eleanor (2024) | 2160p

    Nevermore Eleanor
  • 2024
    So Green

    So Green

    So Green

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    An experimental four-part short film that shows the outcomes of life through a vacation trip.

    So Green
  • 2023
    Cotton Candy Chocolate River

    Cotton Candy Chocolate River

    Cotton Candy Chocolate River

    02023HD

    You and AI at the end of the world.

    Cotton Candy Chocolate River
  • 2022
    Making Space

    Making Space

    Making Space

    02022HD

    Making Space is a film about trying to find oneself in the constant flow of change and renewal, navigating through the anxiety that comes with not...

    Making Space
  • 2023
    The Black Album

    The Black Album

    The Black Album

    02023HD

    The Black Album places scrutiny on the notion of "Black Excellence" in a revisionist take.

    The Black Album
  • 2022
    All The Stars We Made

    All The Stars We Made

    All The Stars We Made

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    A journey through a composite galaxy of artificial light.

    All The Stars We Made
  • 1968
    Plastic Blag

    Plastic Blag

    Plastic Blag

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    Judith Wardwell’s satirical take on America’s sanitation obsession and sexually repressive Puritanism

    Plastic Blag
  • 1967
    Black '67

    Black '67

    Black '67

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    Beginning in 1965 with Black Is, Tambellini launched a series of politically charged experimental films that explore the expressive possibilities of...

    Black '67
  • 1977
    The Heavens

    The Heavens

    The Heavens

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    "The Heavens"–Symmetrical chaos envelops a lone, topless man, whose symmetrical abstractions conjure up a psychadelic version of DaVinci's...

    The Heavens
  • 1968
    Welcome to Come

    Welcome to Come

    Welcome to Come

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    Welcome to Come, which depicts a somewhat mysterious transformation of the image in the course of a single zoom, was my only film to achieve a small...

    Welcome to Come
  • 1967
    A Sense of the Past

    A Sense of the Past

    A Sense of the Past

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    This is a short film description of a room, and the way light (coming through a window) illuminates papers on a desk. An attempt to use color, camera...

    A Sense of the Past
  • 2022
    An Atom on Creation's Throne

    An Atom on Creation's Throne

    An Atom on Creation's Throne

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

    An Atom on Creation's Throne
  • 2001
    Rummaging for Pasts

    Rummaging for Pasts

    Rummaging for Pasts

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    Rummaging for Pasts is an experimental juxtaposition of two cinematic documents: the video diary of an international archaeological excavation and a...

    Rummaging for Pasts
  • 2021
    (Always) Next To Me

    (Always) Next To Me

    (Always) Next To Me

    02021HD

    (Always) Next to Me is a 16mm film that pairs abstract sequences of plants developed directly on the film emulsion with intertitles briefly...

    (Always) Next To Me
  • 2018
    Frozen Ghosts

    Frozen Ghosts

    Frozen Ghosts

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    This is an abstract film of a dream. It is a dream of paranoia, schizophrenia, manic-depression, and anxiety.

    Frozen Ghosts