Avant Garde Movies

The world shifts subtly while silent watchers already understand.

The work departs from Ernst Toller’s play “Die Maschinenstürmer” (1922), but relocates its themes along the remnants and...

Surreal film melding documentary footage of Chicago and its residents, featuring fast paced montage sequences set against a rollicking 1960s musical...

Filmed in a decaying housing estate in east London, "Rhythm 06" renders the outer trappings of internal collapse, a choreography of layers of the...

A collection of interwoven images are threaded together by a string of unspecified women who roam their dreamscape which they are unable to escape....

In PATH OF CESSATION the image that is communicated to us by Fulton is a highly mystifying one. Rather than analyze, or enter into a dialogue with...

You and AI at the end of the world.

Avant-garde short focused on the pure elements of film like form, visual composition, and rhythm.

The ocean, the trees, the varieties of cityscape and landscape assert themselves as "pictures", but the images are essentially a wash and tangle of...

A love story recounted not by them, but by their belongings and surroundings.

A paean to light, a glittering bodice of a film that rapturously unfolds its subject with a shimmering luminosity.

Short film about a unique girl who was once a talented piano player turned idol, but one day she quietly vanished. Since then, no one has known her...

Portrait of the streets from downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul.

"In this experimental film from 1969 the seeds are seen of my exploration of the mouth motif, which reached its full expression in the...

An archival film recovered by the Kydean Film Institute 10 years after the bombing of Renegraad.

To forget about the end of a relationship, a woman fantasizes about an ideal one. Fantasy and reality begin to melt into one another, but the past...

Little Stabs at Happiness is a collection of silent shorts Jacobs shot from the period of 1959-1963. Jaunty tunes (and a somber reflection) accompany...

In this fragile yet frightening poetic fantasy set against a dark industrial landscape, a woman sits knitting on the porch of her home when a man...

Renowned artist Krzysztof Wodiczko creates powerful responses to the inequities and horrors of war. This in-depth investigation into the artist...

Presenting a woman, a female statue, a breathing tree, and a fish out of water, an unorthodox love story unfolds with the growth of limbs and...