Avant Garde Movies

An early film by British experimental filmmaker Nick Collins. It combines bulbous, rapid-motion abstractions of greenery with a portrait of a cat,...

Attempt of the artist's detached view of what is happening in the world.

Experimental short film.

A short film where circus performers entertain children.

Though best known for his collage films, Lawrence Jordan here makes exquisite study of the different aspects of light lilting through the early...

Spanning an entire day from morning to night, this film interpolates the difference between dreaming and dreams.

Experimental short film.

Begging features Paul Su, the activist known for protesting the fare increase of the Star Ferry, in a striking portrayal of a homeless man. His...

A Green Ray that never features. Instead, we sense it, seeing beyond our own eyes, beyond the hills, we sense it for an instant. We are plunged into...

This film takes its cue from that ultimate situation of Sex/Med/masturbation - the loft-and-lonely hotel room. It is thus easily twice the length and...

"Time, forward!" - two orchestral suites by George Sviridov, published for the first time in 1968 (first suite) and in 1977 (second suite). The...

A short film, shot in a long take, interpreted, drawn and directed by Jean-Louis Bompoint, with the precious collaboration of Hélène...

Conceived in 1922, conceptual design published in "De Stijl Nr. 5" (1923), but not realised until 1959.

A monkey paces inside a cage: visually, the short film confines itself to this stark simplicity, yet its message resonates deeply. It draws on...

A group of leftist activists expose the exploitation of immigrant workers by a criminal network with connections to local government officials. The...

Images of concrete and stone. A cemetery. Light making its way through the tree leaves.

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,...

The film is about the deceleration of motion in linear form and speed, establishing a connection between space and love. It ends with high-contrast...

I spent a day inside a small abandoned military fort by the sea. With the tide went up and down, I appeared and disappeared into the water.