Avant Garde Movies

  • 2025
    Windows (for piet and peter)

    Windows (for piet and peter)

    Windows (for piet and peter)

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    A hypnotic mise-en-abyme constructed from JVC camcorder footage of a parking garage. Produced in tribute to teacher, filmmaker and video artist...

    Windows (for piet and peter)
  • 2016
    February 14, 1992

    February 14, 1992

    February 14, 1992

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    With some amount of irony, filmmaker Joe Biglin strings together 7 shorts about himself and things that trigger his OCD.

    February 14, 1992
  • 2015
    Ken Burns Says

    Ken Burns Says "Jazz" 3 Billion Times (actually 2.97 bn) in Under 3.5 Minutes

    Ken Burns Says "Jazz" 3 Billion Times (actually 2.97 bn) in Under 3.5 Minutes

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    Ken Burns Says "Jazz" 3 Billion Times (actually 2.97 bn) in Under 3.5 Minutes

    Ken Burns Says
  • 1972
    Social Game

    Social Game

    Social Game

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    Director of this movie gave an advertisement in many Yugoslav papers calling everybody who wants to act in movie regardless of age, look or...

    Social Game
  • 1950
    Mirror of Holland

    Mirror of Holland

    Mirror of Holland

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    In this short film Bert Haanstra gives his vision - from the water – of a tranquil Holland. During filming he held the camera upside down and...

    Mirror of Holland
  • 2007
    Jeff Wall: Retrospective

    Jeff Wall: Retrospective

    Jeff Wall: Retrospective

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    Jeff Wall is one of the most important and influential photographers working today. His work played a key role in establishing photography as a...

    Jeff Wall: Retrospective
  • 1995
    Prelude 2

    Prelude 2

    Prelude 2

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    Interplay of toned rectangular shapes, vertical and horizontal and diagonal lines in juxtaposition with hardened darker shapes which gradually shift...

    Prelude 2
  • 1949
    The Petrified Dog

    The Petrified Dog

    The Petrified Dog

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    Chases within chases. A mother runs after a child. A man seems to be pursuing himself. A woman who has been nibbling her lipstick through half of the...

    The Petrified Dog
  • 1968
    The Mysteries

    The Mysteries

    The Mysteries

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    "In my film I suggest that there is no greater mystery than that of the protagonists. War and Love are simply equated for what they are; the...

    The Mysteries
  • 2018
    Liminality & Communitas

    Liminality & Communitas

    Liminality & Communitas

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    After the sunset, a man wonders between the edges of the highways gathering edible roadkill animals.

    Liminality & Communitas
  • 2025
    Flowers (III)

    Flowers (III)

    Flowers (III)

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    An experimental short film capturing the delicate beauty of different flowers.

    Flowers (III)
  • 2001
    The Ground

    The Ground

    The Ground

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    What lives in the space between the stones, in the space cupped between my hand and my chest? Filmmaker/stonemason. A tower or ruin of remembrance....

    The Ground
  • 1970
    Epistemology: Floating Images and the Search for a Greater Enallage

    Epistemology: Floating Images and the Search for a Greater Enallage

    Epistemology: Floating Images and the Search for a Greater Enallage

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    Philosophical excerpts breaking the rules of language overlapped with footage of nature, inscrutable voice recordings, strange noises, and classical...

    Epistemology: Floating Images and the Search for a Greater Enallage
  • 2018
    Into The Alternate

    Into The Alternate

    Into The Alternate

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    Taking place in the fifth reality to be discovered by humanity, Into The Alternate follows an inhabitant and foreign visitor as they struggle to...

    Into The Alternate
  • 2012
    The Woolworths Choir of 1979

    The Woolworths Choir of 1979

    The Woolworths Choir of 1979

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    Concerned with processes of assembly, CHOIR brings together disparate bodies of material and archival technologies into dissonant concert. It is a...

    The Woolworths Choir of 1979
  • 1999
    Persian Series #4

    Persian Series #4

    Persian Series #4

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    Elaborate petal-like and multicolored flowers rising in white space until the whole field is as if crushed by floral designs in madly-swift mixtures...

    Persian Series #4
  • 2013
    Sun Song

    Sun Song

    Sun Song

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    A poetic journey from the darkness of dawn into the brightness of the midday sun in the American South. Filmed over the course of six months on one...

    Sun Song
  • 1991
    Royaume

    Royaume

    Royaume

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    Light, colour, abstraction, perception, hallucination: a few concerns closely akin to those of ETANT DONNÉS which, however, do not amount to...

    Royaume
  • 2016
    What's Ours and What We Are

    What's Ours and What We Are

    What's Ours and What We Are

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    In What’s Ours and What We Are, images, motifs and words that originally served a particular political agenda are playfully manipulated to...

    What's Ours and What We Are
  • 1967
    Himself as Herself

    Himself as Herself

    Himself as Herself

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    The young hero seems the essence of maleness, yet he's troubled by vaguely feminine objects. Soon his masculine and feminine selves are intercut, as...

    Himself as Herself