Avant Garde Movies

  • 1999
    Cloud Chamber

    Cloud Chamber

    Cloud Chamber

    81999HD

    This hand-painted step-printed film begins in a field of white light slightly bespeckled with ephemeral glazes of flecks of silver which gradually...

    Cloud Chamber
  • 1980
    Carabosse

    Carabosse

    Carabosse

    51980HD

    Animation, also of a new order in the recent series of short works. Mostly on black space, the figures in blue perform a very compact and jewel-like...

    Carabosse
  • 2008
    Heim

    Heim

    Heim

    02008HD

    "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
  • 2011
    Le Guignon

    Le Guignon

    Le Guignon

    62011HD

    Jon Rafman's short features computer-generated renders of the Twin Towers and a narration from Charles Baudelaire's "Le Guignon."

    Le Guignon
  • 1993
    Meggamorphosis

    Meggamorphosis

    Meggamorphosis

    01993HD

    A 3D animated journey through the life of an egg

    Meggamorphosis
  • 2010
    The Suppliant

    The Suppliant

    The Suppliant

    62010HD

    Filmed in 2003 while staying in a Brooklyn Heights apartment, the work centers on a small Greek statue revealed in shifting morning and afternoon...

    The Suppliant
  • 1973
    Global Groove

    Global Groove

    Global Groove

    7.71973HD

    Global Groove was a collaborative piece by Nam June Paik and John Godfrey. Paik, amongst other artists who shared the same vision in the 1960s, saw...

    Global Groove
  • 2023
    The Chairs

    The Chairs

    The Chairs

    02023HD

    A compelling narrative told entirely through subtitles, lights, and chairs.

    The Chairs
  • 1966
    Ming Green

    Ming Green

    Ming Green

    5.61966HD

    This portrait of the filmmaker's apartment, painted in the color of the title, was made a few months before his departure from New York. It...

    Ming Green
  • 2012
    Open Eyes

    Open Eyes

    Open Eyes

    52012HD

    Collective experimental film by Team 8mm TENGOKU.

    Open Eyes
  • 2008
    Untitled

    Untitled

    Untitled

    02008HD

    A minimalist monochromatic film frame is projected through a glass pane fogged via a humidification system. The planular drift of the projected frame...

    Untitled
  • 1970
    Visible Light

    Visible Light

    Visible Light

    01970HD

    Visible Light is a dreamlike exploration on the nature of reality as perceived by a schizophrenic man.

    Visible Light
  • 2013
    Picture Perfect Pyramid

    Picture Perfect Pyramid

    Picture Perfect Pyramid

    92013HD

    Picture Perfect Pyramid is a 16mm film which in counter-clockwise spirals, circles a large pyramid structure that was built on the outskirts of...

    Picture Perfect Pyramid
  • 2012
    Gold Moon, Sharp Arrow

    Gold Moon, Sharp Arrow

    Gold Moon, Sharp Arrow

    02012HD

    Against a backdrop of electrocution, dominance, and scientific precision, wasps nest in an abandoned refrigerator, eyelashes flutter, curtains blow...

    Gold Moon, Sharp Arrow
  • 2010
    The Name is not the Thing named

    The Name is not the Thing named

    The Name is not the Thing named

    62010HD

    In support of experiences that are essentially common, but to which language does not easily adhere, the video passes through places that are both...

    The Name is not the Thing named
  • 1982
    Hotel Cartograph

    Hotel Cartograph

    Hotel Cartograph

    01982HD

    The movements across the 2-dimensional space, and in and out of elevators through 3-dimensional space, suggest a conceptual map of the visible...

    Hotel Cartograph
  • 2009
    Reflex/Reflection

    Reflex/Reflection

    Reflex/Reflection

    02009HD

    “This film was made for an event that included an exhibition of artwork by Eishi Yamatomo. Yamatomo’s metal sculpture is often finished...

    Reflex/Reflection
  • 1978
    White Film

    White Film

    White Film

    6.31978HD

    Spectrum and prism divide the screen; whites and light, etc. "Out of this purity comes all colors. I've always been attracted to refracted light and...

    White Film
  • 2026
    The Plutonian Prophecy: Preface

    The Plutonian Prophecy: Preface

    The Plutonian Prophecy: Preface

    02026HD

    In this vertical short-form video, a strange fortune teller comes with a message for a specific collective.

    The Plutonian Prophecy: Preface
  • 2025
    Animal Eye

    Animal Eye

    Animal Eye

    02025HD

    Scientists and philosophers work to understand animal vision in this multi textured rumination exploring our relationship to the nonhuman world.

    Animal Eye