Avant Garde Movies

  • 1970
    Rhythm and Environment

    Rhythm and Environment

    Rhythm and Environment

    01970HD

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

    Rhythm and Environment
  • 1970
    Epistemology: Floating Images and the Search for a Greater Enallage

    Epistemology: Floating Images and the Search for a Greater Enallage

    Epistemology: Floating Images and the Search for a Greater Enallage

    01970HD

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

    Epistemology: Floating Images and the Search for a Greater Enallage
  • 1970
    Belongings and Surroundings

    Belongings and Surroundings

    Belongings and Surroundings

    01970HD

    A love story recounted not by them, but by their belongings and surroundings.

    Belongings and Surroundings
  • 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
  • 2023
    Xiuhtecuhtli

    Xiuhtecuhtli

    Xiuhtecuhtli

    02023HD

    This is a rhythmic invocation of the ancestral fire, in which dazzling flames reanimate bones and natural elements. This is the shining of colour.

    Xiuhtecuhtli
  • 2022
    are dandelions really so bad?

    are dandelions really so bad?

    are dandelions really so bad?

    02022HD

    A brief and experimental ode to the humble dandelion, shot on 16mm developed using an eco-processor made of dandelions.

    are dandelions really so bad?
  • 1968
    Plastic Blag

    Plastic Blag

    Plastic Blag

    01968HD

    Judith Wardwell’s satirical take on America’s sanitation obsession and sexually repressive Puritanism

    Plastic Blag
  • 1969
    A Persian Rug

    A Persian Rug

    A Persian Rug

    01969HD

    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 Persian Rug
  • 1967
    A Sense of the Past

    A Sense of the Past

    A Sense of the Past

    01967HD

    This is a short film description of a room, and the way light (coming through a window) illuminates papers on a desk. An attempt to use color, camera...

    A Sense of the Past
  • 1975
    Itch

    Itch

    Itch

    01975HD

    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...

    Itch
  • 2020
    Butterfly 360°

    Butterfly 360°

    Butterfly 360°

    102020HD

    The 360° project tells the story of a peaceful environment featuring a rare case phenomena where a swarm of butterflies is nurturing itself by...

    Butterfly 360°
  • 2020
    at her heels a stone

    at her heels a stone

    at her heels a stone

    02020HD

    An essay on the brutality of beauty and innocence in a hostile world.

    at her heels a stone
  • 2008
    In A Year With 13 Deaths

    In A Year With 13 Deaths

    In A Year With 13 Deaths

    02008HD

    Light painting and nature imagery are captured in 13 shots of different points of luminescence, on the 13th anniversary of Schwartz’s...

    In A Year With 13 Deaths
  • 2008
    Untitled

    Untitled

    Untitled

    02008HD

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

    Untitled
  • 2019
    Pareidolia

    Pareidolia

    Pareidolia

    02019HD

    In Pareidolia, analog abstract patterns made on 16mm film are used as source material for finding similar figurative images, interpreted by an online...

    Pareidolia
  • 2018
    Sneyd Green

    Sneyd Green

    Sneyd Green

    62018HD

    It’s any day, any year in the house of Alan and Vera Ellis in their Post-Industrial English conurbation formerly known for their world renown...

    Sneyd Green
  • 2017
    Films To Break Projectors

    Films To Break Projectors

    Films To Break Projectors

    4.52017HD

    ‘Films to Break Projectors’ glues, scrapes and splices 35mm, 16mm and 8mm film to create unprojectable celluloid collages. Reanimating...

    Films To Break Projectors
  • 2002
    Notes on Film 01 Else

    Notes on Film 01 Else

    Notes on Film 01 Else

    02002HD

    Notes on Film 01 Else
  • 1981
    Temps Topologique

    Temps Topologique

    Temps Topologique

    01981HD

    “One can not speak of time as a thing in itself. It is movements and variations that give the feeling of time. Men have always linked time and...

    Temps Topologique
  • 2003
    It’s Not My Memory of It: Three Recollected Documents

    It’s Not My Memory of It: Three Recollected Documents

    It’s Not My Memory of It: Three Recollected Documents

    02003HD

    “It’s not my memory of it” is a documentary about secrecy, memory, and documents. A former CIA source recounts his disappearance...

    It’s Not My Memory of It: Three Recollected Documents