Avant Garde Movies

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

A meditative journey through an ancient and desolate land enveloped in an ever darkening mist.

Markopoulos called Lysis “a study in stream-of-consciousness poetry of a lost, wandering, homosexual soul” and felt that the film...

I and other person, we exercise the daily movements by moving each other's body.

"Ryuta is 5 years old. Even though he is my son, I sometimes wonder what this small person is to me. Even though I see his joys and sadnesses and...

Interweaving stonework and filmmaking, Beavers evokes memory through hammer strokes and chisel sounds that shape both image and rhythm. In this...

Seeing, Hearing, Saying Nothing. Ben stands with ears, eyes, mouth bandaged.

This is a surrealistic documentary with a strong format which is based on the point of view of author. Tan can't fall in sleep in the night, is that...

Disturbed by an irrational aversion to his house owner's unsettling left eye, man contemplates murder to escape the disturbing presence and restore...

Images of the uniforms as the Ohio guard is interviewed off-camera.

“The Occidental Hotel is a “city” film—I was inspired to emulate the Surrealists’ sense of wandering, of flaneury, of...

A hand-painted film photographically step-printed so that the thicket-like lines of paint are “played-off” against some centered...

An experimental short.

Experimental short film.

The world shifts subtly while silent watchers already understand.

"In my film I suggest that there is no greater mystery than that of the protagonists. War and Love are simply equated for what they are; the...

3-D is a hand-painted experimental short film by Riley Hogan. Acrylic paint, ink and scratching were used to animate on clear Super 8mm film leader.

Lifting and holding up a chest of drawers.

Dissonant selves dancing around opposition and harmony.

"Twigs" of color in space, and pure white "ghosts" of them in the background interspersed with dark amalgams of these and conglomerate forms. The...