Avant Garde Movies

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

A hand-painted film photographically step-printed so that the thicket-like lines of paint are “played-off” against some centered...

Obscure signs portend a looming, indecipherable slump. An oracular decoding of the landscape.

A chair, a yogurt, and a masked man are guided to find themselves by an unknown entity.

I and other person, we exercise the daily movements by moving each other's body.

In “Everybody’s Cage”, German film artist Sandra Trostel turns John Cage and his approach to art into a tangible fascination,...

Edited but unprinted. Filmed in Paris. Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

Study for Film No. 11: Mirror Animations (1957). Harry Smith described the film as, “An exposition of Buddhism and the Kaballah in the form of...

A dark and visceral journey. A language that tears apart the morbid nature of the dead-old primal human eyes. No warning was given. No mercy was...

Directly in the tradition of SEXUAL MEDITATION #1: Motel, this "sequel" does explore further possibilities of nudes in a room. - Canyon Cinema

A bursting of mostly golden light forms as if heralding sunlight itself in their hurried (single-frame) display.

A meditation on time and its effect on memory. About the rocks the sea tries to drag away from the shore, towards the ocean, with every wave.

Die Schachtel (The Box), 1968. 35mm film transfer to videotape, black-and-white, sound; 29 minutes.

The film began as a record of the painter Joseph Glin and his series of paintings inspired by "La Maison Des Mortes" by Guillaume Apollinaire. After...

One of the most iconic sequences in the history of Hollywood cinema (from Alfred Hitchcock’s NORTH BY NORTHWEST) is deconstructed and...

A woman rocks a cradle; a man comes to land from the sea, but leaves to view it from a distance.

An outcast girl makes an interesting conversation with a peculiar boy.

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