Avant Garde Movies

  • 1968
    Sonata for Pen, Brush, and Ruler

    Sonata for Pen, Brush, and Ruler

    Sonata for Pen, Brush, and Ruler

    01968HD

    From 1967-71 Barry Spinello made films without camera or tape recorder by hand drawing both sound and picture directly onto clear 16mm leader. His int...

    Sonata for Pen, Brush, and Ruler
  • 1968
    Gaudi Killed by a Tram

    Gaudi Killed by a Tram

    Gaudi Killed by a Tram

    51968HD

    Images of the Church of the Sagrada Familia by Antoni Gaudí confronted with brief flashes of housing projects and industrial areas. The furious displa...

    Gaudi Killed by a Tram
  • 1973
    Ikarus

    Ikarus

    Ikarus

    01973HD

    A slow-motion dive at 3,000 frames per second.

    Ikarus
  • 1988
    Black Celebration

    Black Celebration

    Black Celebration

    01988HD

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

    Black Celebration
  • 1999
    Ad Vice

    Ad Vice

    Ad Vice

    01999HD

    "Ad Vice consists of a succession of colored projection surfaces with segments of text from the worlds of advertising, sport and popular culture." - A...

    Ad Vice
  • 1995
    Unstable Materials

    Unstable Materials

    Unstable Materials

    61995HD

    This film is made by some beautiful and unique alchemical transformations of the film material itself. It is a visual expedition into the world of mat...

    Unstable Materials
  • 1993
    A Proven Partner

    A Proven Partner

    A Proven Partner

    01993HD

    "I came across an old industrial film by Siemens on computer and their language. To better appreciate the film I first of all cut off the sound, I the...

    A Proven Partner
  • 1974
    A Voyage on the North Sea

    A Voyage on the North Sea

    A Voyage on the North Sea

    01974HD

    Marcel Broodthaers’ film and book, both titled A Voyage on the North Sea which were distributed together as part and parcel of the same publishing plo...

    A Voyage on the North Sea
  • 1996
    Postcard from San Miguel

    Postcard from San Miguel

    Postcard from San Miguel

    01996HD

    POSTCARD FROM SAN MIGUEL is perhaps the most mystical of all the films from Lawrence Jordan's "Odyssey" triptych. On the surface, it is merely a postc...

    Postcard from San Miguel
  • 1970
    Koodal

    Koodal

    Koodal

    01970HD

    "Visionary post-war modernist Tyeb Mehta channels the nightmares of the nation in Koodal, at once the artist’s self-described “autobiography” and a pr...

    Koodal
  • 1988
    The Balcony

    The Balcony

    The Balcony

    01988HD

    The lives of people are observed within the confines of one, twenty-two story high rise apartment complex and its adjacent courtyard in Trump Village,...

    The Balcony
  • 1959
    Komposition II/1922

    Komposition II/1922

    Komposition II/1922

    01959HD

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

    Komposition II/1922
  • 1984
    Images That Ate Themselves

    Images That Ate Themselves

    Images That Ate Themselves

    01984HD

    16mm film by Bojan Jovanović.

    Images That Ate Themselves
  • 1978
    Mystery and Melancholy of a Street

    Mystery and Melancholy of a Street

    Mystery and Melancholy of a Street

    01978HD

    16mm film by Radoslav Vladić.

    Mystery and Melancholy of a Street