Avant Garde Movies

Five artistic expressions with no apparent meaning.

Formats and the environment. Experimental short.

A film about endless processes. Images reappearing. New sentences being written.

The world appears black on black until it separates from itself, looks at itself, includes itself, and sees colour.

Director Lam Can-Zhao leads a small film crew as they shoot a film about a stray dog in the streets of Guangzhou, leading viewers into an...

Edited but not printed. Filmed in Zurich. Original reversal film deposted in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

The work departs from Ernst Toller’s play “Die Maschinenstürmer” (1922), but relocates its themes along the remnants and...

Based on Plato's dialogue Charmides.

Multiple screens in blue.

Experimentation with multiple exposure.

The ancient Thracian bard Orpheus laments ever for his lost love Eurydice. Having returned from the Underworld in his attempts to retrieve her, he...

Video essay ‘Rock and Cliff' investigates the creation of Horn Town, a new model village and centre of large scale tourist development, and the...

A meditation on light and water; landscape as self-portraiture.

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

Line between making cinema and making a film.

Fixed Camera angle watching the sounds of birds.

A meditative journey through an ancient and desolate land enveloped in an ever darkening mist.

One of the earliest minimalist video with flicker effects was produced in Tokyo in early 1970s. A flickering video with eyes, which super-impose the...

Mirror images.

Three acts. The term anamorphosis is used in several areas of knowledge (from the Greek word anamorfosis – reformation, return to form,...