Avant Garde Movies

An afternoon in the woods. Every camera movement a stroke of a brush. An impossible painting. Never completing itself, always starting anew.

A girl who was floating freely in the water accidentally gets her skin cut by a sailboat passing by. The story is derived from personal experience,...

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...

The film is an observational telling of a watchman in an apartment complex in Guwahati, Assam, India. It blends documentary to explore his alienation...

This is an abstract film of a dream. It is a dream of paranoia, schizophrenia, manic-depression, and anxiety.

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

"Shiloh Cinquemani works wonders simply by framing flowers in “Narcissi” and “Rose.” Her delirious flux of glances...

A documentary on electronic music made using "bio-feedback" devices and techniques.

A short Avant-Garde experimental film

For Barbara Figueroa

"This film was presented as part of my 1969 thesis on Max Ernst. It was a personal tribute where I filmed his collages, then intercut live footage I...

Common Mistakes uses four synonyms for the word "mistake" (fallacy, error, accident, and blunder) to present a sample of widely held "truths" that...

In Pareidolia, analog abstract patterns made on 16mm film are used as source material for finding similar figurative images, interpreted by an online...

A sci-fi filmed in Mount Shasta, CA, Morro Bay, CA and Cape Romain, SC.

Sportello Quattro, filmed during a residency at the American Academy in Rome, is about immigration, work and community among people of color in...

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

Six Positions (1998) is about task of a funeral home director.

A correctional officer’s daily routine of gaining access into a correctional facility.

Filmed in Zürich. For Sofía Verder "As if I had the intention to narrate things, I have saved a considerable amount of notes and...