Avant Garde Movies

"A springtime Fantasy," everything comes joyfully together in mirthful mythic warmth as Bird Lad's white line on black background richly sprouts,...

Beginning in 1965 with Black Is, Tambellini launched a series of politically charged experimental films that explore the expressive possibilities of...

A vivid sampler of the great Barcelona architect-sculptor’s work in situ, Sokoloff constantly is seeking out the most anthropomorphic images...

(1970) color; 3 min.

(1970) color; 5 min

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

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...

(Always) Next to Me is a 16mm film that pairs abstract sequences of plants developed directly on the film emulsion with intertitles briefly...

A short Avant-Garde experimental film

An avant-garde film presented as part of an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. From MoMA's catalog: "For the monumental installation Play Dead;...

An experimental collage film pieced together from random bits of 16mm film strips.

Imported (1999) is about three methods of ridding collard and kale greens of a pesky insect.

I killed two fish for this project, and made them suffer as little as possible, in order to film them and in order to eat them. Attempting to uncover...

The wife lost her sense of time in the loops of life, becoming the gears of social machinery. The husband is a writer who has the spirit of...

Music by Dick Connette from his album, Too Sad for the Public Vol. 1: Oysters Ice Cream Lemonade. Suzzy Roche sings the vocal. Dick’s lyrics...

An eight-minute work filmed on 35mm film, Collage d’Hollywood explores the materiality of the film medium in a literal way. Collage is...

Roger Hammond’s silent portraits of film artists from the early 1970s were shot in and around David Larcher’s studio. Some Friends begins...

Three lives caught in limbo between dreams, reality, and oblivion.

Short experimental 16mm film.

Short experimental 16mm film.