Movies: Avant garde

Two men sit in a car, watching the world through the windshield. One is silent, the other is slowly drinking himself to death. External reality becomes a reflection of internal decay. Almost without words, the film speaks through gaze, sound, and sil...

A man stumbles upon a saxophone....

Sleeping and dreaming under the sun...

A girl reads during a bus ride...

A short film directed by the Argentine filmmaker Ernesto Baca...

An unseen character observes the cold, harsh world around them while listening to The Beach Boys, hidden away in the safety of their bedroom....

A 3 minute Shortfilm playing with the expressionistic themes of the German Poem “D-Zug” by Gottfried Benn....

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

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An experimental reinterpretation of 1950s science fiction B movies....

An experimental work that explores sound and vision as an emotional response system....

An intimate and introspective experimental film in which the author's anxious manias and worries are presented visually, without the need for sound. The movement of her fingers and mouth, both tearing the skin, accompanied by the images of her eyes s...

People are punished not for their sins, but by their sins and this is the most severe and proper punishment....

Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance...

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

The film is an observational telling of a watchman in an apartment complex in Guwahati, Assam, India. It blends documentary to explore his alienation and raise the question of empathy vis-a-vis his occupation: its existence beyond what may be referre...

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

Short film made with underexposed video footage....

A documentary on electronic music made using "bio-feedback" devices and techniques....

Video essay ‘Rock and Cliff' investigates the creation of Horn Town, a new model village and centre of large scale tourist development, and the experiences of rural residents moved there through government-led displacement. Horn Town is located in Wu...