Avant Garde Movies

  • 2024
    Guts and Glitz

    Guts and Glitz

    Guts and Glitz

    4.52024HD

    Audiovisual material gathered by filmmaker Fox Maxy over a decade, including documentary footage, television clips, and animation—sometimes...

    Guts and Glitz
  • 2021
    Circle

    Circle

    Circle

    102021HD

    This short film follows a man lost in the woods driven by his fear of the unknown.

    Circle
  • 1988
    Satrapy

    Satrapy

    Satrapy

    01988HD

    Rephotographed pornographic playing cards rhythmically intrude upon a piercing 5-beat score of different-sized black parallel lines, creating an...

    Satrapy
  • 2022
    When I Close My Eyes I See Everything

    When I Close My Eyes I See Everything

    When I Close My Eyes I See Everything

    02022HD

    A Sunday walk in a forest turns into a poetic journey on perception.

    When I Close My Eyes I See Everything
  • 2025
    Falso Nueve

    Falso Nueve

    Falso Nueve

    02025HD

    Falso Nueve
  • 2022
    Votive

    Votive

    Votive

    02022HD

    Shifting market trends force the hand of a career artist into adopting a new style.

    Votive
  • 1994
    Do Not August, 1991

    Do Not August, 1991

    Do Not August, 1991

    101994HD

    The film was made in the days of the August 1991 coup in Leningrad, USSR . Respecting the manner of a proprietary parallel cinema with the use of...

    Do Not August, 1991
  • 1996
    Prelude 11

    Prelude 11

    Prelude 11

    6.11996HD

    Thick weaves of multicolored lines and dull-colored blobs play off against each other.

    Prelude 11
  • 1961
    The Earth

    The Earth

    The Earth

    01961HD

    Short experimental 16mm film.

    The Earth
  • 1983
    Adagio

    Adagio

    Adagio

    01983HD

    Subtitled “Eros in Psyche” and set to a composition by Tomaso Albinoni, Lawrence Jordan’s rapturous live action short contemplates...

    Adagio
  • 1979
    Winter

    Winter

    Winter

    01979HD

    After waiting for a bus at Fern Tree that never arrives, a clown takes refuge under the snowy rocks of Mount Wellington and frolics on the wintery...

    Winter
  • 2000
    The Glass System

    The Glass System

    The Glass System

    62000HD

    “The Glass System, made from images shot in New York and Calcutta, looks at life as it is played out in the streets. Every corner turned...

    The Glass System
  • 2010
    The Name is not the Thing named

    The Name is not the Thing named

    The Name is not the Thing named

    62010HD

    In support of experiences that are essentially common, but to which language does not easily adhere, the video passes through places that are both...

    The Name is not the Thing named
  • 2000
    Incorrect Intermittence

    Incorrect Intermittence

    Incorrect Intermittence

    02000HD

    “This film offers a metacinematic study of tempo and change and a figure of velocity. […] Ota recorded [three different locations in...

    Incorrect Intermittence
  • 1971
    35, boulevard General Koenig

    35, boulevard General Koenig

    35, boulevard General Koenig

    91971HD

    Edited but unprinted. Filmed in Paris. Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

    35, boulevard General Koenig
  • 2017
    The Lone

    The Lone

    The Lone

    8.72017HD

    The loneliness of man before nature. Loneliness in the urban environment. Loneliness as a way of life. Alone in front of myself - The film is...

    The Lone
  • 1967
    O

    O

    O

    01967HD

    "Fears and thrills... Part structure (the centerpoint): part improvisation."

    O
  • 2024
    A Collection of Images From My Last Year of Naivety

    A Collection of Images From My Last Year of Naivety

    A Collection of Images From My Last Year of Naivety

    02024HD

    Three weeks to make three films. Filmed in my last semester before College. "Time", "One Night", "8x8".

    A Collection of Images From My Last Year of Naivety
  • 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
  • 1995
    Prelude 4

    Prelude 4

    Prelude 4

    5.81995HD

    Much depth of multi-colored thickened shapes which appear to be superimposed upon each other, semi-transparent in their "weave" with each other which...

    Prelude 4