Avant Garde Movies

A radical series of images from Karl Ring.

Surrendering the mind to the hypnotic dance of fire, a candle's glimmer reveals dreamlike memories, illustrated by flickering fragments of...

A film adaptation of George Berkeley's 1747 tract of the same name, which consists of an intricate, lengthy proof that gradually comes to connect the...

3-minute experimental animation based on the techniques of John Whitney.

"In my film I suggest that there is no greater mystery than that of the protagonists. War and Love are simply equated for what they are; the...

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

Elaborate petal-like and multicolored flowers rising in white space until the whole field is as if crushed by floral designs in madly-swift mixtures...

Short experimental 16mm film.

A lucid dream turned nightmarish reality. A ship sinking into a world of fear. A short film that’s mostly puppetry by one of America's...

A slow-motion dive at 3,000 frames per second.

A woman rocks a cradle; a man comes to land from the sea, but leaves to view it from a distance.

Roger Hammond’s silent portraits of film artists from the early 1970s were shot in and around David Larcher’s studio. Some Friends begins...

A high school student tries to accustom himself to an unusual phobia, destroying everyone in his path. A nerd tries to eradicate the phobia entirely.

Short film by Paul Clipson from the Celluloid Sketches & Watercolor Movies DVD

The film frame sometimes seems to function as a rug-like rectangle into or onto which the lover steps. Filmed in Orselina, Switzerland after reading...

A film in which the one 60-story skyscraper that soars in the spaces between roofs spins with incredible speed. I centered the circumference with its...

Starting from frame by frame in-camera editing, the film translates a nursery garden from Chillán into a filmic landscape, with a rhythm and...

Three lives caught in limbo between dreams, reality, and oblivion.

A young man desperately seeks the fleeting image of a female companion, and though he never quite catches her, he discovers far more through surreal...