Avant Garde Movies

Prelude 10 is a double-printed film with an extreme mixture of darks shot thru with jewel-like bursts of color, and very white bursts of light and...

The twilight and half-closed vision of the blinding bursts barely reveals fleeting and luminous unexpected phosphorescences, through and through the...

In 1963 and 1964, Andy Warhol captured dancer-choreographers Lucinda Childs, Yvonne Rainer, and Freddy Herko, and Village Voice dance critic Jill...

The poet's dreams a maiden's bubbles through edifices of forest and eclectic contagion.

Five years in the making, Lawrence Jordan's feature-length "alchemical autobiography" Sophie's Place takes as its inspiration the story of the Greek...

This short film follows a man lost in the woods driven by his fear of the unknown.

A series of individual portraits of friends and family, all interrelated in what might be called a branch growing directly from the trunk of SONGS 1...

Though best known for his collage films, Lawrence Jordan here makes exquisite study of the different aspects of light lilting through the early...

A journey through a composite galaxy of artificial light.

16mm film by Radoslav Vladić.

"A sequence shot explores from attic to celler a large residence that, for the time being, is emptied out of its inhabitants. Their habits are...

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

Chopin "Nocturnes" accompany this study in black and white inspired by Huysman's decadent novel "À rebours".

This portrait of the filmmaker's apartment, painted in the color of the title, was made a few months before his departure from New York. It...

trees and other things...

An experimental media installation of three windows exploring fragments of liminality. Three unique re-constructions of experiential instances...

Many white interruptive frames and absolutely straight-edged multi-colored lines amidst "clouds" of color, finally thickened into blobs with lengthy...

This section is very similar to Prelude 4 except that it is composed of extremely thin-lined colors and sharply delineated shapes which are...

Die Schachtel (The Box), 1968. 35mm film transfer to videotape, black-and-white, sound; 29 minutes.

Thick weaves of multicolored lines and dull-colored blobs play off against each other.