Avant Garde Movies

  • 1967
    A Sense of the Past

    A Sense of the Past

    A Sense of the Past

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    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 Sense of the Past
  • 2017
    Scar

    Scar

    Scar

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    A girl who was floating freely in the water accidentally gets her skin cut by a sailboat passing by. The story is derived from personal experience,...

    Scar
  • 1962
    A Woman Distressed

    A Woman Distressed

    A Woman Distressed

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    An 1962 Avant-Garde Comedy by George Kuchar.

    A Woman Distressed
  • 2022
    Fire Shall Come

    Fire Shall Come

    Fire Shall Come

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    Video art piece by Michigan artist Gio Orlando.

    Fire Shall Come
  • 2016
    Stabat Mater

    Stabat Mater

    Stabat Mater

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    Hotel guests look restrained, sedated in the diffuse light of the service provider’s shimmering cage. A network of joists, pilasters and...

    Stabat Mater
  • 2013
    Second-hand Reading

    Second-hand Reading

    Second-hand Reading

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

    Second-hand Reading
  • 1999
    Incorrect Continuity

    Incorrect Continuity

    Incorrect Continuity

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    “Sequences of space-time manipulation that raise the problem of continuity in the shot.” - Yo Ota

    Incorrect Continuity
  • 2009
    Mutual Exercise

    Mutual Exercise

    Mutual Exercise

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

    Mutual Exercise
  • 2020
    A Portrait: A Philosophy

    A Portrait: A Philosophy

    A Portrait: A Philosophy

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    The first part of director Seth Tyler Black’s Portraits triptych, A Portrait: A Philosophy paints the cyclical nature of the lifespan of an...

    A Portrait: A Philosophy
  • 1984
    Dislocated Third Eye Series III: Bismillah /In Four Movements/

    Dislocated Third Eye Series III: Bismillah /In Four Movements/

    Dislocated Third Eye Series III: Bismillah /In Four Movements/

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    Against a repetitive trance-inducing loop of four carefully excerpted bars from “Ntsikana’s Bell” (1974, with Johnny Dyani), the...

    Dislocated Third Eye Series III: Bismillah /In Four Movements/
  • 2019
    Pareidolia

    Pareidolia

    Pareidolia

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    In Pareidolia, analog abstract patterns made on 16mm film are used as source material for finding similar figurative images, interpreted by an online...

    Pareidolia
  • 2008
    Heim

    Heim

    Heim

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    "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...

    Heim
  • 1970
    Colors of Summer

    Colors of Summer

    Colors of Summer

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    A careful observation of changes in the life cycles of flora and fauna that occur in the garden near his house in Vynnyky. The structure of the film...

    Colors of Summer
  • 2024
    A Sense of Nothing

    A Sense of Nothing

    A Sense of Nothing

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    A film motivated by nothing (but daily life and (my) vision). It represents nothing, it signifies nothing. There’s no hidden meaning, no...

    A Sense of Nothing
  • 1995
    Prelude 1

    Prelude 1

    Prelude 1

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    Turquoise and maroon-toned thin lines of paint are interspersed with variously toned circular "watermarks" of blotched paint giving-way to...

    Prelude 1
  • 2024
    French Poem

    French Poem

    French Poem

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    Two men sit in a car, watching the world through the windshield. One is silent, the other is slowly drinking himself to death. External reality...

    French Poem
  • 2008
    Rhythm 06

    Rhythm 06

    Rhythm 06

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

    Rhythm 06
  • 2017
    Vortex

    Vortex

    Vortex

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    A corridor of an apartment is transformed into a claustrophobic and vertiginous vortex that swallows and imprisons you in an infinite fall through a...

    Vortex
  • 1985
    Black Heat

    Black Heat

    Black Heat

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    Influenced by abstract expressionism, a series of black and white high-contrast positive episodes characterized by intense bursts of light and deep...

    Black Heat
  • 2023
    Looking through a Glass Darkly

    Looking through a Glass Darkly

    Looking through a Glass Darkly

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

    Looking through a Glass Darkly