Avant Garde Movies

"Fears and thrills... Part structure (the centerpoint): part improvisation."

An 1962 Avant-Garde Comedy by George Kuchar.

(1970) color; 3 min.

(1970) color; 5 min

Made in 1969. 1min. 16mm. Black and White

A portrait of Eric de Kuyper.

The film frame sometimes seems to function as a rug-like rectangle into or onto which the lover steps. Filmed in Orselina, Switzerland after reading t...

Lijn II is a tiny portrait of a friend made on a contact printer from scraps of a film that was lost

The film began as a record of the painter Joseph Glin and his series of paintings inspired by "La Maison Des Mortes" by Guillaume Apollinaire. After f...

The story of Jacob wrestling the angel at the stream called Jabbok.

"The Heavens"–Symmetrical chaos envelops a lone, topless man, whose symmetrical abstractions conjure up a psychadelic version of DaVinci's Vitruvian M...

1 minute, color, silent 16mm

Flashing lights illuminate black faces and dark eyes, oscillating between darkness and inverted lightness.

Peripeteia I and Peripeteia II, shot by the artist in Oregon’s rainforest, alone and without electricity.

Welcome to Come, which depicts a somewhat mysterious transformation of the image in the course of a single zoom, was my only film to achieve a small m...

This is a short film description of a room, and the way light (coming through a window) illuminates papers on a desk. An attempt to use color, camera...

A continuous dissolve into a series of happy nude couples in various configurations: female/male, female/female, male/male, as the Rolling Stones sing...

Han closes a trilogy that began with Ere erera baleibu... (1968) and continued with Impressions en haute atmosphère (1991),which goes from the microc...

Staggeringly simple films: a man itching his back, a man thinking, a man yawning, but like the works of Samuel Beckett, these minute gestures stand in...

Staggeringly simple films: a man itching his back, a man thinking, a man yawning, but like the works of Samuel Beckett, these minute gestures stand in...