Avant Garde Movies

  • 2011
    The Collapse of PAL

    The Collapse of PAL

    The Collapse of PAL

    02011HD

    In "The Collapse of PAL" (Eulogy, Obsequies and Requiem for the planes of blue phosphor), the Angel of History (as described by Walter Benjamin)...

    The Collapse of PAL
  • 2016
    Shared Table

    Shared Table

    Shared Table

    02016HD

    “Last August, several filmmakers joined me to repair the splices in Markopoulos’s Eniaios. I interrupted our work for a moment; the...

    Shared Table
  • 1983
    On the Corner

    On the Corner

    On the Corner

    01983HD

    An urban ballet performed by street children.

    On the Corner
  • 2008
    Heim

    Heim

    Heim

    02008HD

    "A sequence shot explores from attic to celler a large residence that, for the time being, is emptied out of its inhabitants. Their habits are...

    Heim
  • 2020
    Tugging Diary

    Tugging Diary

    Tugging Diary

    72020HD

    Tugging Diary documents a footbridge over a year between August 2019 to January 2021. Due to social unrest and the uncertainty of various immediate...

    Tugging Diary
  • 2023
    The Black Album

    The Black Album

    The Black Album

    02023HD

    The Black Album places scrutiny on the notion of "Black Excellence" in a revisionist take.

    The Black Album
  • 2017
    Scar

    Scar

    Scar

    02017HD

    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,...

    Scar
  • 2002
    Soupirs d’écumes

    Soupirs d’écumes

    Soupirs d’écumes

    02002HD

    The twilight and half-closed vision of the blinding bursts barely reveals fleeting and luminous unexpected phosphorescences, through and through the...

    Soupirs d’écumes
  • 2022
    Before Dark

    Before Dark

    Before Dark

    02022HD

    Images that take the viewer to the sea, before dark.

    Before Dark
  • 2018
    Howl of a Gypsy Sunflower

    Howl of a Gypsy Sunflower

    Howl of a Gypsy Sunflower

    02018HD

    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...

    Howl of a Gypsy Sunflower
  • 2012
    Narcissi

    Narcissi

    Narcissi

    02012HD

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

    Narcissi
  • 1996
    Prelude 10

    Prelude 10

    Prelude 10

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    Prelude 10 is a double-printed film with an extreme mixture of darks shot thru with jewel-like bursts of color, and very white bursts of light and...

    Prelude 10
  • 1996
    Prelude 13

    Prelude 13

    Prelude 13

    61996HD

    Singly-printed multi-colored watery "blobs" and "feathery" streaks of painted color, dominated by yellows and reds interweaving in complexity until...

    Prelude 13
  • 2009
    Envío 21

    Envío 21

    Envío 21

    02009HD

    For Barbara Figueroa

    Envío 21
  • 2003
    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8

    02003HD

    An avant-garde meditation on obsolete technology. The film is of a 1930s Rheinmetall typewriter owned by the director. The film itself is projected...

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8
  • 2023
    Inquieta

    Inquieta

    Inquieta

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    An intimate and introspective experimental film in which the author's anxious manias and worries are presented visually, without the need for sound....

    Inquieta
  • 2018
    Naissance des étoiles #2

    Naissance des étoiles #2

    Naissance des étoiles #2

    02018HD

    Witnessing my daughters passage though childhood with a 35mm Russian movie camera.

    Naissance des étoiles #2
  • 1969
    Gloria in the Glass

    Gloria in the Glass

    Gloria in the Glass

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    1 minute, color, silent 16mm

    Gloria in the Glass
  • 1968
    Welcome to Come

    Welcome to Come

    Welcome to Come

    01968HD

    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...

    Welcome to Come
  • 1957
    Daybreak and Whiteye

    Daybreak and Whiteye

    Daybreak and Whiteye

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    These two films investigate frustrations in loving, DAYBREAK with a girl as object, WHITEYE with the camera as subject. Preserved by the Academy...

    Daybreak and Whiteye