Avant Garde Movies

The creation of an infinite space. Light modulations over water surfaces, conjugating into multiple alterations. Time and light being reshaped...

The film is based on a puppet musical which fuses the fantastical and historical, transforming a process of historical research into a...

Film produced and directed by Ricky Leacock, Edward Pincus, and MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies documenting the Centerbeam kinetic sculpture...

An anthology of surreal films by Patrick McGuinn featuring Vincent, a puppet who is obsessed with Twinkies and pasta.

The parents of an adult infant named "Child", played by Todd Haynes, attempt to expel him from their home, by casting magical spell seen in a...

A dark, stream of consciousness fever dream, gathering all that is decrepit in this world, and reflecting it all back to those who have reduced the...

A light explodes and becomes a snail.

Demonstrates the visual logic (and illogic) of sign combining with limited movements of camera for panning and zooming.

The world appears black on black until it separates from itself, looks at itself, includes itself, and sees colour.

Inspired by the famous gay Greek painter Giannis Tsarouhis' paintings, Diptych is a contemplation on male beauty, the impossibility of open gay love...

A film of and through the trees. Leaves catch, consume and resist the light through the seasons.

A young man, attempting to watch a VHS tape of "Love Streams" by John Cassavetes on his television, is constantly harassed and annoyed by outside...

In 1933, at age 33, Harry Alan Potamkin died of complications related to starvation, at a time when he was one of the world's most respected film...

Between a experimental journey in the subconscious, a woman go through her introspective layers and bettle one of her powerfuls and misterious...

Preferring to shower with clothes on, they wait patiently for an evening with Winder, a living movie camera. Made as an exercise activity for...

In 1961 Lithuanian American artist and impresario George Maciunas established the avant-garde art movement Fluxus. George details the rise of Fluxus...

A lucid dream turned nightmarish reality. A ship sinking into a world of fear. A short film that’s mostly puppetry by one of America's...

This piece represents a kind of autobiographical vision. I use myself to create all the figures, sometimes employing masks from the Noh theater to...