Avant Garde Movies

Quintessential alternative rockers, Sonic Youth, celebrate free-form experimentalism while reinforcing their performance-art driven tradition in this...

Restore the classical definition of planet! Bring back planet Pluto! The solar system is twelve!

“The ‘exhibition’ held by ‘artist’ Katsuhiro Fujimura in Tokyo during the very hot summer of 2013 was one that made...

“My attempt at a filmic interpretation of Haraguchi Noriyuki’s ‘Inclined Horizon,’ a three-dimensional physical work featured...

"The video "Between the ocean" is a juxtaposition of interior and exterior spaces in Japan that are somehow connected. The material for this video...

This film is shot to point out the flood of commercial messages in television program, on billboards and megaboards, messages that take over our...

For Barbara Figueroa

From Pompeii to Xenia puts in echo times of innocence struck by disaster: the lightning tornado which had beaten down on the American city of...

Heineken is an abstraction based on an image from a six pack of beer. The extraction of color and transformation of the source image are...

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 Futurist is a condensed experience of film viewing, a single 360 degree animated shot in an empty 1920’s cinema where the sound becomes a...

A minimalist monochromatic film frame is projected through a glass pane fogged via a humidification system. The planular drift of the projected frame...

Filmed in Zürich. For Robert Beavers. Talking about the illuminated and the un-illuminated.

Filmed in London. For Annette Carle. Details of landscapes, roads.

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

"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...

“This film was made for an event that included an exhibition of artwork by Eishi Yamatomo. Yamatomo’s metal sculpture is often finished...

"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...

An employee at the Getty owned Pierre Hotel in New York City wondered why there were so many Germans being hired and staying at The Pierre during...

For five grueling years, Li Ning documents his struggle to achieve success as an avant-garde artist while contending with the pressures of modern...