Avant Garde Movies

Christmas Eve in rapid camera.

Burn flowers burn ,as dreams.Dreams burn down like they were never meant to bloom.

Around the sleeping bodies, some presences occupy the architecture and move around the space in obscure activities: nothing of their actions is...

"A film featuring my work as shown in my 1969 diploma exhibit at Chelsea College of Art. It explores my Mummy Case, then the series of works that are...

"[Hutton’s] latest urban film, New York Portrait, Chapter III, takes on a unique tone in relation to Hutton’s ongoing exploration of...

(1970) color; 5 min

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

A woman carries a cat in a shopping bag that refuses to be petted. Tired of its behaviour, she violently strikes the bag repeatedly against a wall....

A short experimental film dedicated to Polish artist Wacław Szpakowski (1883–1973).

Young boy confesses his love toward a grocery store chain in a abstract manner.

The film began as a record of the painter Joseph Glin and his series of paintings inspired by "La Maison Des Mortes" by Guillaume Apollinaire. After...

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...

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

The story is the closure, the film is how pain and anxiety are carried by the wind. There is no use trying to exert control, it only causes the...

Modified flashlights and stripped down video projectors explore the visual complexities of the ordinary world: a tunnel, a clump of grass, a...

This engaged reading of the urban black riots of the 1960s references Guy Debord’s Situationist text, “The Decline and Fall of the...

“The Occidental Hotel is a “city” film—I was inspired to emulate the Surrealists’ sense of wandering, of flaneury, of...

In "The Lead Shoes", we can neither thrust in our eyes nor our ears to help us understand how time flows or how space is. Therefore, Peterson forces...

The faces of a 5:00 PM crowd descending via the Pan Am building escalators in one continuous shot. In old-fashioned black and white, these faces...