Avant Garde Movies

  • 2020
    Sehnsucht

    Sehnsucht

    Sehnsucht

    02020HD

    In this film-poem Browzan illustrates his experience living in Berlin between 2016-17. Browzan uses collage, still photography, video and boomerangs...

    Sehnsucht
  • 2013
    Second-hand Reading

    Second-hand Reading

    Second-hand Reading

    82013HD

    A film constructed from a succession of drawings on old books.

    Second-hand Reading
  • 2014
    I W I

    I W I

    I W I

    62014HD

    Avant-garde, black & white realization of the synth driven score.

    I W I
  • 1970
    Belongings and Surroundings

    Belongings and Surroundings

    Belongings and Surroundings

    01970HD

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

    Belongings and Surroundings
  • 2011
    Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film

    Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film

    Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film

    02011HD

    16mm film negative sanded with surfboard shaping tools, sex wax melted on, squirted, dripped, splashed, sprayed and rubbed with donuts, zinc oxide,...

    Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film
  • 1997
    Yoni

    Yoni

    Yoni

    01997HD

    This provocative short film explores women's power, force and passion through an enigmatic series of images, erotic performances and tableaux vivant....

    Yoni
  • 1983
    Adagio

    Adagio

    Adagio

    01983HD

    Subtitled “Eros in Psyche” and set to a composition by Tomaso Albinoni, Lawrence Jordan’s rapturous live action short contemplates...

    Adagio
  • 2010
    The Name is not the Thing named

    The Name is not the Thing named

    The Name is not the Thing named

    62010HD

    In support of experiences that are essentially common, but to which language does not easily adhere, the video passes through places that are both...

    The Name is not the Thing named
  • 2010
    The Suppliant

    The Suppliant

    The Suppliant

    02010HD

    Filmed in 2003 while staying in a Brooklyn Heights apartment, the work centers on a small Greek statue revealed in shifting morning and afternoon...

    The Suppliant
  • 2008
    Tide

    Tide

    Tide

    02008HD

    I spent a day inside a small abandoned military fort by the sea. With the tide went up and down, I appeared and disappeared into the water.

    Tide
  • 1999
    Cloud Chamber

    Cloud Chamber

    Cloud Chamber

    81999HD

    This hand-painted step-printed film begins in a field of white light slightly bespeckled with ephemeral glazes of flecks of silver which gradually...

    Cloud Chamber
  • 1995
    Prelude 6

    Prelude 6

    Prelude 6

    6.31995HD

    Interplay of mostly horizontal lines inter-woven with "watermark" forms in a wide variety of tones which gradually tend to dissolve into blues at the...

    Prelude 6
  • 1962
    Justice

    Justice

    Justice

    91962HD

    A man and a woman quarrel in the street. Others take sides, and a brawl begins. The police finally intervene and justice is carried out in a manner...

    Justice
  • 1948
    Psyche

    Psyche

    Psyche

    7.21948HD

    Psyche 1947, made while a student at USC, shows Markopoulos’ developing style and his sensuous use of colour and composition. Shot in the...

    Psyche
  • 1973
    Once Upon a Time

    Once Upon a Time

    Once Upon a Time

    6.51973HD

    We are first presented a cobweb castle, filled with the haunting doubts of the young protagonist. Spirits appear on the screen and are heard on the...

    Once Upon a Time
  • 1993
    Three Homerics

    Three Homerics

    Three Homerics

    5.51993HD

    This film is composed of three sections created to accompany a piece of music (by Barbara Feldman) on a Homeric poem.

    Three Homerics
  • 2013
    Sun Song

    Sun Song

    Sun Song

    7.32013HD

    A poetic journey from the darkness of dawn into the brightness of the midday sun in the American South. Filmed over the course of six months on one...

    Sun Song
  • 1974
    A Voyage on the North Sea

    A Voyage on the North Sea

    A Voyage on the North Sea

    01974HD

    Marcel Broodthaers’ film and book, both titled A Voyage on the North Sea which were distributed together as part and parcel of the same...

    A Voyage on the North Sea
  • 1996
    Prelude 9

    Prelude 9

    Prelude 9

    6.41996HD

    ...again, is "plein-aire abstraction" as defined above (painted in New York City) – with, for example, even a correctly toned green impression...

    Prelude 9
  • 1970
    Dwijihwa

    Dwijihwa

    Dwijihwa

    01970HD

    Kumaresh, on the run from a repressive right wing party, must spend the night at the home of a comrade who undergoes a strange shift over the course...

    Dwijihwa