Avant Garde Movies
- 2017
Summer
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A visual daydream of a late afternoon swim in the waters of a summer in Sicily.
- 1997
Le Mistral, Beautiful But Terrible
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The story is the closure, the film is how pain and anxiety are carried by the wind. There is no use trying to exert control, it only causes the...
- 2007
Quiet Chaos of Desire
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"A good friend of mine died at 9:10 a.m. Saturday, July 21, 2007... my film piece is called "Quiet Chaos of Desire" it comes out of my experience in...
- 2003
It’s Not My Memory of It: Three Recollected Documents
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“It’s not my memory of it” is a documentary about secrecy, memory, and documents. A former CIA source recounts his disappearance...
- 1968
Sonata for Pen, Brush, and Ruler
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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...
- 1984
Sfaira 1985 -1895
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A short experimental film; "An hommage to silent movies".
- 1970
The Weir-Falcon Saga
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The term "The Weir-Falcon Saga" appeared to me, night after night, at the end of a series of dreams: I was "true" to the feeling, tho not the images,...
- 1980
Demons
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Polish avant-garde animation in which a periodic series of aggressive starbursts interrupt the melodic dancing of fluid shapes, one raid even...
- 1970
Memoria
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Surrendering the mind to the hypnotic dance of fire, a candle's glimmer reveals dreamlike memories, illustrated by flickering fragments of...
- 2017
Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding
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"Thornton's magnum opus, this ongoing and open-ended serial follows its two improvisatory protagonists, children “raised by technology,”...
- 2015
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 Minutes4.52015HD
Ken Burns Says "Jazz" 3 Billion Times (actually 2.97 bn) in Under 3.5 Minutes
- 2001
The Ground
The Ground62001HD
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....
- 1932
Burlesque
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In Burlesque, the young journalist and film critic Kucera concocted a playful mixture of Surrealist trick shots and newsreel material to express his...
- 1970
Shooting Star
Shooting Star01970HD
(1970) color; 5 min
- 1982
Ghost Sonata
Ghost Sonata01982HD
Video project dubbed "an Opera without Words" made by the experimental, avant-garde band Tuxedomoon.
- 2024
Foreign Surface
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An experimental reinterpretation of 1950s science fiction B movies.
- 2023
bleared eyes of blue glass
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The "bleared eyes of blue glass" in the title of this experimental short expand on a verbal image from Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves, considered...
- 1968
Welcome to Come
Welcome to Come01968HD
Welcome to Come, which depicts a somewhat mysterious transformation of the image in the course of a single zoom, was my only film to achieve a small...
- 2002
Sportello Quattro
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Sportello Quattro, filmed during a residency at the American Academy in Rome, is about immigration, work and community among people of color in...
- 2017
Choirs of the Eye: Live at The Stone
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Filmed in August of 2015 at The Stone in New York City, Kayo Dot performed their debut album Choirs Of The Eye in its entirety for a group of fewer...