Movies: Avant garde

  • 2006
    Kaleidoskop-In 10 Minuten Licht

    Kaleidoskop-In 10 Minuten Licht (2006)

    Kaleidoskop-In 10 Minuten Licht

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    Short movie from the German band "Das Ich". "Kaleidoskop" was filmed by Kevin Gross....

    Kaleidoskop-In 10 Minuten Licht
  • 1975
    Drawers

    Drawers (1975)

    Drawers

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    An early video curio pitched between performance art and George Méliès’ trick films, Drawers sees Colab artist Andrea Callard training her Sony Portapak on a rigged dresser for some endearingly primitive magic. - Max Goldberg...

    Drawers
  • 1980
    Dr. Jeckyll and Ms. Hyde

    Dr. Jeckyll and Ms. Hyde (1980)

    Dr. Jeckyll and Ms. Hyde

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    This black-and-white nightmare gives Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale
of the dark id a campy, gender-flipping treatment reminiscent of George Kuchar’s works. Quaffing some chemical homebrew in her personal laboratory (like everything here, a "se...

    Dr. Jeckyll and Ms. Hyde
  • 2016
    Stabat Mater

    Stabat Mater (2016)

    Stabat Mater

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    Hotel guests look restrained, sedated in the diffuse light of the service provider’s shimmering cage. A network of joists, pilasters and fluting exposes the proverbial off-season chill in the seating arrangements. Smart-phones and tablets mask a tota...

    Stabat Mater
  • 2009
    Reflex/Reflection

    Reflex/Reflection (2009)

    Reflex/Reflection

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    “This film was made for an event that included an exhibition of artwork by Eishi Yamatomo. Yamatomo’s metal sculpture is often finished with a chromium plating, which reflects its surroundings. For this project, I tried to obtain the image of a metal...

    Reflex/Reflection
  • 2016
    Now We Put The Little Feelers On The Butterfly

    Now We Put The Little Feelers On The Butterfly (2016)

    Now We Put The Little Feelers On The Butterfly

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    Vast horizons and hollow landscapes. Figures in funeral gowns swaying from reality. Withering within without wunnienuther, we wandered windswept as heartswept....

    Now We Put The Little Feelers On The Butterfly
  • 2015
    Ken Burns Says

    Ken Burns Says "Jazz" 3 Billion Times (actually 2.97 bn) in Under 3.5 Minutes (2015)

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

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

    Ken Burns Says
  • 2016
    Goodbye Philippines

    Goodbye Philippines (2016)

    Goodbye Philippines

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    Goodbye Philippines surveys an undead landscape, textured by phantoms. It is as if this feeling of a legacy regards tradition and cultural custom as memories repossessed by the setting....

    Goodbye Philippines
  • 1983
    Holiday

    Holiday (1983)

    Holiday

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    Experimental short film....

    Holiday
  • 1995
    Unstable Materials

    Unstable Materials (1995)

    Unstable Materials

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    This film is made by some beautiful and unique alchemical transformations of the film material itself. It is a visual expedition into the world of matter, which shows the bizarre richness of the smallest particles floating in the film emulsion. The c...

    Unstable Materials
  • 1993
    A Proven Partner

    A Proven Partner (1993)

    A Proven Partner

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    "I came across an old industrial film by Siemens on computer and their language. To better appreciate the film I first of all cut off the sound, I then took out the colours and reduced the speed. Slowly the very substance of the film emerged and I be...

    A Proven Partner
  • 2015
    They Had It Coming

    They Had It Coming (2015)

    They Had It Coming

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    A movie by Jon Jost, who is the maestro of the American experimental movie world. The film tells us the strange incidents that happen in the ruined old village. Comparing to Jon Jost’s previous movies, this film has a clearer narrative and is more ex...

    They Had It Coming
  • 1988
    The Balcony

    The Balcony (1988)

    The Balcony

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    The lives of people are observed within the confines of one, twenty-two story high rise apartment complex and its adjacent courtyard in Trump Village, Brooklyn, New York. Shot from one vantage point over a period of fifteen months, THE BALCONY, specu...

    The Balcony
  • 1984
    Images That Ate Themselves

    Images That Ate Themselves (1984)

    Images That Ate Themselves

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    16mm film by Bojan Jovanović....

    Images That Ate Themselves
  • 1985
    Valletta

    Valletta (1985)

    Valletta

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    An early film by British experimental filmmaker Nick Collins. It combines bulbous, rapid-motion abstractions of greenery with a portrait of a cat, showing these elements individually and then projecting them on top of each other....

    Valletta
  • 2011
    Christ Church – Saint James

    Christ Church – Saint James (2011)

    Christ Church – Saint James

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    In the spring of 1998, Christ Church - Saint James, an historic black church in Toronto's Little Italy, was destroyed by arson. All that remained were walls and a pit, and over subsequent years, the site was overtaken with graffiti. This film has tak...

    Christ Church – Saint James