Movies: Avant garde

(Always) Next to Me is a 16mm film that pairs abstract sequences of plants developed directly on the film emulsion with intertitles briefly describing what was going on for me personally at the moment the plants were collected. I started the film at...

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

Sunny. Semantic sequences guide the gaze, a gaze that is sometimes raised, propelled downwards, then too high or motionless in front of an unrecognizable and yet so familiar vision. The images, linked by echoes of chromatic palettes and linear layers...

The work departs from Ernst Toller’s play “Die Maschinenstürmer” (1922), but relocates its themes along the remnants and ruins of the cotton industry, in post-2011 Egypt and post-industrial Poland. Actualizing a criticism of technology, the film re-...

How do those within the memories show themselves to us?...

A short Avant-Garde experimental film...

Shenzhen River (the border btw Hong Kong and Shenzhen), and the Second Line of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (the border between Socialism China and Capitalism China) were compared to the Berlin Wall. The Second Line were constructed June 1982, demo...

"From the 1969 exhibition, Bride in the Bath is shown in its sculptural form – a life cast of a model's body lying back in a bath and draped in black silk coated in resin. The footage is cut with film I shot of a model lying back in a bath in which b...

After the electricity went off, many eyes grew from the playground....

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

72 follows a teenage taxicab driver in Columbus, Mississippi multitasking to keep his job....

A correctional officer’s daily routine of gaining access into a correctional facility....

A meditation on light and water; landscape as self-portraiture....

A man comes home to find a mysterious box on his living room floor....

Filmed in London. For Annette Carle. Details of landscapes, roads....

An experimental short....

Going back to the places of crime scenes and urban legends, a Visual Bizarre Adventure in Daytime....

A symbolic rape by the Devil and a renewal of self worth....

An eight-minute work filmed on 35mm film, Collage d’Hollywood explores the materiality of the film medium in a literal way. Collage is assembled from movie trailers found at a deserted drive-in cinema, and explores onscreen sex and violence...

Scenes from a demolition derby event are combined with statements taken from automobile insurance claims in Accidental Confessions. In these claims, drivers were instructed to summarize the details of their accidents in the fewest words possible resu...