Avant Garde Movies

  • 1977
    Peripeteia I

    Peripeteia I

    Peripeteia I

    01977HD

    Peripeteia I and Peripeteia II, shot by the artist in Oregon’s rainforest, alone and without electricity.

    Peripeteia I
  • 1968
    Welcome to Come

    Welcome to Come

    Welcome to Come

    01968HD

    Welcome to Come, which depicts a somewhat mysterious transformation of the image in the course of a single zoom, was my only film to achieve a small m...

    Welcome to Come
  • 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
  • 1969
    Stand Up and Be Counted

    Stand Up and Be Counted

    Stand Up and Be Counted

    01969HD

    A continuous dissolve into a series of happy nude couples in various configurations: female/male, female/female, male/male, as the Rolling Stones sing...

    Stand Up and Be Counted
  • 1992
    Han (on the sun)

    Han (on the sun)

    Han (on the sun)

    01992HD

    Han closes a trilogy that began with Ere erera baleibu... (1968) and continued with Impressions en haute atmosphère (1991),which goes from the microc...

    Han (on the sun)
  • 1976
    Head

    Head

    Head

    01976HD

    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 in...

    Head
  • 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 in...

    Itch
  • 1976
    Skyworks: "Light, Lighten, Lightning" (Three Mile Drop)

    Skyworks: "Light, Lighten, Lightning" (Three Mile Drop)

    Skyworks: "Light, Lighten, Lightning" (Three Mile Drop)

    01976HD

    16mm film (color, sound); 16 min.

    Skyworks: "Light, Lighten, Lightning" (Three Mile Drop)
  • 1990
    Protective Coloration

    Protective Coloration

    Protective Coloration

    01990HD

    This film is a succession of visual and aural "notes" generated by the patterns in animals' hides, which are arranged and re-edited into a complex mus...

    Protective Coloration
  • 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 almos...

    Satrapy
  • 2024
    Casual Workers

    Casual Workers

    Casual Workers

    02024HD

    An abstract perspective into two young South African workers in the heart of Johannesburg's industrial sector during Covid-19

    Casual Workers
  • 1989
    Self-Organization of Biological Systems

    Self-Organization of Biological Systems

    Self-Organization of Biological Systems

    01989HD

    The pantomime of two characters exchanging roles is accompanied by a three-layered phonogram, where sophisticated narrative text is interrupted by sli...

    Self-Organization of Biological Systems
  • 1969
    Max Ernst, Une Semaine de Bonte

    Max Ernst, Une Semaine de Bonte

    Max Ernst, Une Semaine de Bonte

    01969HD

    "This film was presented as part of my 1969 thesis on Max Ernst. It was a personal tribute where I filmed his collages, then intercut live footage I s...

    Max Ernst, Une Semaine de Bonte
  • 1969
    Stairs, Tunnels and Mirrors

    Stairs, Tunnels and Mirrors

    Stairs, Tunnels and Mirrors

    01969HD

    "1969 period. In the beginning of this experimental film a figure in white ascends spiral staircases and escalators and moves away from the camera dow...

    Stairs, Tunnels and Mirrors
  • 1969
    Mouths and Masks

    Mouths and Masks

    Mouths and Masks

    01969HD

    "In this experimental film from 1969 the seeds are seen of my exploration of the mouth motif, which reached its full expression in the ‘Opening’ exhib...

    Mouths and Masks
  • 1969
    Bride in the Bath

    Bride in the Bath

    Bride in the Bath

    01969HD

    "From the 1969 exhibition, Bride in the Bath is shown in its sculptural form – a life cast of a model's body lying back in a bath and draped in black...

    Bride in the Bath
  • 1969
    Rhythm of Two Figures

    Rhythm of Two Figures

    Rhythm of Two Figures

    01969HD

    "This film was part of my thesis presentation at Chelsea College of Art in 1969. It expresses my interest in the human form and how two human forms ca...

    Rhythm of Two Figures
  • 2024
    Common Mistakes

    Common Mistakes

    Common Mistakes

    02024HD

    Common Mistakes uses four synonyms for the word "mistake" (fallacy, error, accident, and blunder) to present a sample of widely held "truths" that lat...

    Common Mistakes
  • 2003
    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8

    02003HD

    An avant-garde meditation on obsolete technology. The film is of a 1930s Rheinmetall typewriter owned by the director. The film itself is projected...

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8
  • 2003
    Play Dead: Real Time

    Play Dead: Real Time

    Play Dead: Real Time

    02003HD

    An avant-garde film presented as part of an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. From MoMA's catalog: "For the monumental installation Play Dead; Rea...

    Play Dead: Real Time