Avant Garde Movies

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

This hand-painted step-printed film begins in a field of white light slightly bespeckled with ephemeral glazes of flecks of silver which gradually giv...

Early short by Peter Gidal.

A stream of mysterious rituals and symbols are encountered as a young boy journeys to school in the fantastical world of Kshya Tra Ghya.

Two screens. Fusion of two words, usually one losing the final part and the other losing the initial part.

A young woman watches TV with her cat in the room. A dying man explores what's left of his psyche.

An experimental reinterpretation of 1950s science fiction B movies.

A film constructed from a succession of drawings on old books.

"Heart-wrenching cry about the physical suffering caused by the AIDS plague being compounded by the shameful arrogance of self-appointed moralists."

A docudrama about art and creativity; based on modern art gallery in Tehran and its founder Jazeh Tabatabai.

Going back to the places of crime scenes and urban legends, a Visual Bizarre Adventure in Daytime.

A wordless experimental collage of impressions and moods. Grainy fragments of landscapes, flakes whirl in the wind. Fog and mist, shadows of people in...

The poet's dreams a maiden's bubbles through edifices of forest and eclectic contagion.

Ivan Ladislav hides a true chamber of wonders behind the clear, mathematically abstract structure of his films and videos, meticulously compiled rhyth...

A rhythmic series of gestures and steps to the sound of music.

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

An anxiety-free day. Trees, flowers, bridges, the ocean, and people reading (the same book).

First, I wanted to make a kind of reflexively impoverished Busby Berkeley extravaganza. Second, I was interested in juxtaposing two cultural artifacts...