Avant Garde Movies

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

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

16mm film by Bojan Jovanović.

A monkey paces inside a cage: visually, the short film confines itself to this stark simplicity, yet its message resonates deeply. It draws on...

Presenting a woman, a female statue, a breathing tree, and a fish out of water, an unorthodox love story unfolds with the growth of limbs and...

A sequence of 10 images presented in 10 groups of 400 alternating frames. The primary image of a bird is gradually disfigured by the successive...

A bunch of spectators trapped in a cinema theatre.

An interpretation of a recurring dream.

A compelling narrative told entirely through subtitles, lights, and chairs.

Conceived in 1922, conceptual design published in "De Stijl Nr. 5" (1923), but not realised until 1959.

A visual daydream of a late afternoon swim in the waters of a summer in Sicily.

A precarious highway carries an unnamed protagonist to a series of doctors' appointments, where it is unclear what ails her. She speaks to no one and...

Turquoise and maroon-toned thin lines of paint are interspersed with variously toned circular "watermarks" of blotched paint giving-way to...

The debut short film from Edward Pettitt, that blends surrealist imagery with the sounds from The Residents.

"My name, melancholia".

Changes of spatial relationships, scales, locations, and materials are intimated with recognisable clues which nevertheless do not always eliminate...

A short film spelling Tokyo in hiragana.

The first part of director Seth Tyler Black’s Portraits triptych, A Portrait: A Philosophy paints the cyclical nature of the lifespan of an...

An experimental short by Tao Zhou.

Short musical / experimental / collage film inspired and influenced by People Like Us' (a.k.a. Vicki Bennett) early short films.