Avant Garde Movies

16mm film (color, sound); 16 min.

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...

Images of the Church of the Sagrada Familia by Antoni Gaudí confronted with brief flashes of housing projects and industrial areas. The...

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

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...

A flickering survey of worlds both urban and botanical. The frame as an unsettled space, a centre that cannot hold, suspended in its own vertigo....

A film adaptation of George Berkeley's 1747 tract of the same name, which consists of an intricate, lengthy proof that gradually comes to connect the...

A small portrait of the volatility of intimacy and of breaking free from abusive cycles: made in response to a year of collapsing relationships and...

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

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

An experimental portrayal of being adrift in a daydream.

Modified flashlights and stripped down video projectors explore the visual complexities of the ordinary world: a tunnel, a clump of grass, a...

For five grueling years, Li Ning documents his struggle to achieve success as an avant-garde artist while contending with the pressures of modern...

Images that take the viewer to the sea, before dark.

The pantomime of two characters exchanging roles is accompanied by a three-layered phonogram, where sophisticated narrative text is interrupted by...

The Beat poet Chuck Miller traveled blind to Inner Mongolia, and he met a shoe repair guy......

Shifting market trends force the hand of a career artist into adopting a new style.

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

An intimate exploration of the ultimate unknowability of even those closest to your heart.

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