Avant Garde Movies

  • 2023
    Spaghetti Ramen

    Spaghetti Ramen

    Spaghetti Ramen

    102023HD

    Originally completed in 2018, the film was largely self-funded, Mr Yen Ooi worked on the script, refining the vision of the film for over a decade,...

    Spaghetti Ramen
  • 2005
    Big Black Square

    Big Black Square

    Big Black Square

    02005HD

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

    Big Black Square
  • 1995
    Prelude 1

    Prelude 1

    Prelude 1

    5.51995HD

    Turquoise and maroon-toned thin lines of paint are interspersed with variously toned circular "watermarks" of blotched paint giving-way to...

    Prelude 1
  • 2019
    La Jardinera

    La Jardinera

    La Jardinera

    02019HD

    Starting from frame by frame in-camera editing, the film translates a nursery garden from Chillán into a filmic landscape, with a rhythm and...

    La Jardinera
  • 1996
    Prelude 12

    Prelude 12

    Prelude 12

    6.41996HD

    A bursting of mostly golden light forms as if heralding sunlight itself in their hurried (single-frame) display.

    Prelude 12
  • 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...

    Protective Coloration
  • 2009
    Mutual Exercise

    Mutual Exercise

    Mutual Exercise

    02009HD

    I and other person, we exercise the daily movements by moving each other's body.

    Mutual Exercise
  • 2022
    Corner

    Corner

    Corner

    02022HD

    The corner of a street is matched and mixed with the chant of a bird recorded on that same street. A symbiotic relationship is triggered: the rapid...

    Corner
  • 2018
    Naissance des étoiles #2

    Naissance des étoiles #2

    Naissance des étoiles #2

    02018HD

    Witnessing my daughters passage though childhood with a 35mm Russian movie camera.

    Naissance des étoiles #2
  • 1975
    Drawers

    Drawers

    Drawers

    01975HD

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

    Drawers
  • 2022
    Making Space

    Making Space

    Making Space

    02022HD

    Making Space is a film about trying to find oneself in the constant flow of change and renewal, navigating through the anxiety that comes with not...

    Making Space
  • 1998
    Distorted Movi Sion

    Distorted Movi Sion

    Distorted Movi Sion

    6.51998HD

    “The structure of human vision is the visual knowledge of the world. Individuals do not visually understand the world through the eyes, but...

    Distorted Movi Sion
  • 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...

    Sonata for Pen, Brush, and Ruler
  • 1973
    Ikarus

    Ikarus

    Ikarus

    01973HD

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

    Ikarus
  • 2022
    Deterioration of Memory

    Deterioration of Memory

    Deterioration of Memory

    02022HD

    A representation of my own memory during the course of this year, illustrated by visuals.

    Deterioration of Memory
  • 1973
    Some Friends

    Some Friends

    Some Friends

    01973HD

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

    Some Friends
  • 1977
    The Heavens

    The Heavens

    The Heavens

    01977HD

    "The Heavens"–Symmetrical chaos envelops a lone, topless man, whose symmetrical abstractions conjure up a psychadelic version of DaVinci's...

    The Heavens
  • 1967
    O

    O

    O

    01967HD

    "Fears and thrills... Part structure (the centerpoint): part improvisation."

    O
  • 1970
    Into the Meridian

    Into the Meridian

    Into the Meridian

    01970HD

    A musical audiovisual journey in four parts. A young man finds himself unexpectedly taking an audiovisual odyssey into a world of surreality, slowly...

    Into the Meridian
  • 2014
    Second Sighted

    Second Sighted

    Second Sighted

    62014HD

    Obscure signs portend a looming, indecipherable slump. An oracular decoding of the landscape.

    Second Sighted