Avant Garde Movies

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...

From 1967-71 Barry Spinello made films without camera or tape recorder by hand drawing both sound and picture directly onto clear 16mm leader. His...

Making Space is a film about trying to find oneself in the constant flow of change and renewal, navigating through the anxiety that comes with not...

An interpretation of a recurring dream.

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...

A side table and a chest of drawers (played by actors in ingenious soft-sculpture costumes) indulge in a bit of passive-aggressive furniture moving....

Philosophical excerpts breaking the rules of language overlapped with footage of nature, inscrutable voice recordings, strange noises, and classical...

A psychedelic journey reproducing in sound and images the hallucinogenic experience of an acid trip, mixing original video with images taken from TV...

16mm film (color, sound); 16 min.

To fly a – way from/out of death, don’t hire a taxidermist but take a ride in this taxidrome! Series of 41 Moving Images - this analogy...

A meditation on time and its effect on memory. About the rocks the sea tries to drag away from the shore, towards the ocean, with every wave.

Against a repetitive trance-inducing loop of four carefully excerpted bars from “Ntsikana’s Bell” (1974, with Johnny Dyani), the...

A painting of a couple talk to the viewers for a bit.

A chair, a yogurt, and a masked man are guided to find themselves by an unknown entity.

Vast horizons and hollow landscapes. Figures in funeral gowns swaying from reality. Withering within without wunnienuther, we wandered windswept...

Staggeringly simple films: a man itching his back, a man thinking, a man yawning, but like the works of Samuel Beckett, these minute gestures stand...

Short film made with underexposed video footage.

A film about creation itself, a rite of the sun and the surfaces illuminated by it. Light capturing and light summoning "in a primitive attempt to...

Goodbye Philippines surveys an undead landscape, textured by phantoms. It is as if this feeling of a legacy regards tradition and cultural custom as...

An experimental short.