Avant Garde Movies

Portrait of the streets from downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul.

An experimental short.

An experimental short.

An experimental short.

Super 8mm film.

An eight-minute work filmed on 35mm film, Collage d’Hollywood explores the materiality of the film medium in a literal way. Collage is...

A post-modern fantasy based on Lefcadio Hearne's short story "Jikininki."

Roger Hammond’s silent portraits of film artists from the early 1970s were shot in and around David Larcher’s studio. Some Friends begins...

Short film by Paul Clipson from the Celluloid Sketches & Watercolor Movies DVD

An early video curio pitched between performance art and George Méliès’ trick films, Drawers sees Colab artist Andrea Callard...

This black-and-white nightmare gives Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale
of the dark id a campy, gender-flipping treatment reminiscent of...

A group of leftist activists expose the exploitation of immigrant workers by a criminal network with connections to local government officials. The...

Following an introduction which establishes the social context of the film, ‘The Politics of Perception’ presents a one-minute...

Changes of spatial relationships, scales, locations, and materials are intimated with recognisable clues which nevertheless do not always eliminate...

“Sequences of space-time manipulation that raise the problem of continuity in the shot.” - Yo Ota

“This film offers a metacinematic study of tempo and change and a figure of velocity. […] Ota recorded [three different locations in...

“One can not speak of time as a thing in itself. It is movements and variations that give the feeling of time. Men have always linked time and...

“Peter Kubelka…was teaching at Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule (Städel) at the time....

“The Glass System, made from images shot in New York and Calcutta, looks at life as it is played out in the streets. Every corner turned...

"The work Everytown deals with futuristic models from science, literature and film at the beginning of the 20th century. The focus lies on the social...