Avant Garde Movies

“Peter Kubelka…was teaching at Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule (Städel) at the time....

The world appears black on black until it separates from itself, looks at itself, includes itself, and sees colour.

"Thornton's magnum opus, this ongoing and open-ended serial follows its two improvisatory protagonists, children “raised by technology,”...

Die Schachtel (The Box), 1968. 35mm film transfer to videotape, black-and-white, sound; 29 minutes.

Edited but unprinted. Filmed in Paris. Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

Goodbye Philippines surveys an undead landscape, textured by phantoms. It is as if this feeling of a legacy regards tradition and cultural custom as...

"The work Everytown deals with futuristic models from science, literature and film at the beginning of the 20th century. The focus lies on the social...

Experimental short film.

From 1967-71 Barry Spinello made films without camera or tape recorder by hand drawing both sound and picture directly onto clear 16mm leader. His...

An old man (artist and landscape architect Bevis Bawa) contemplates the Garden of Eden.

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

The lives of people are observed within the confines of one, twenty-two story high rise apartment complex and its adjacent courtyard in Trump...

Inspired by the famous gay Greek painter Giannis Tsarouhis' paintings, Diptych is a contemplation on male beauty, the impossibility of open gay love...

Obscure signs portend a looming, indecipherable slump. An oracular decoding of the landscape.

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

An early film by British experimental filmmaker Nick Collins. It combines bulbous, rapid-motion abstractions of greenery with a portrait of a cat,...

Slow disintegration and aging of artists head, revealing underlying bone structure. Created using old picture-phone technology. New music added in...

"[Hutton’s] latest urban film, New York Portrait, Chapter III, takes on a unique tone in relation to Hutton’s ongoing exploration of...

In the spring of 1998, Christ Church - Saint James, an historic black church in Toronto's Little Italy, was destroyed by arson. All that remained...

Hutton's most impressive work ... the filmmaker's style takes on an assertive edge that marks his maturity. The landscape has a majesty that serves...