Avant Garde Movies

Jon Rafman's short features computer-generated renders of the Twin Towers and a narration from Charles Baudelaire's "Le Guignon."

A meditation on time and its effect on memory. About the rocks the sea tries to drag away from the shore, towards the ocean, with every wave.

Short film made with underexposed video footage.

A psychedelic journey reproducing in sound and images the hallucinogenic experience of an acid trip, mixing original video with images taken from TV...

Our place is on fire and we are on fire with it. If that, what we are, is not any longer and an eternal search begins - for who we are, where we...

CRISP., wherein a jealous man's attempt to steal a delicious apple crisp causes reality to break down and begins a chain of events leading to an...

The Storm in the Morning is an autobiographical film. It blends digital, natural, and cultural worlds to build a multidimensional narrative where...

For Barbara Figueroa

Common Mistakes uses four synonyms for the word "mistake" (fallacy, error, accident, and blunder) to present a sample of widely held "truths" that...

The Futurist is a condensed experience of film viewing, a single 360 degree animated shot in an empty 1920’s cinema where the sound becomes a...

An avant-garde meditation on obsolete technology. The film is of a 1930s Rheinmetall typewriter owned by the director. The film itself is projected...

An avant-garde "experimental anthropological poem" from France.

A minimalist monochromatic film frame is projected through a glass pane fogged via a humidification system. The planular drift of the projected frame...

In Pareidolia, analog abstract patterns made on 16mm film are used as source material for finding similar figurative images, interpreted by an online...

A sci-fi filmed in Mount Shasta, CA, Morro Bay, CA and Cape Romain, SC.

A disgruntled bank teller’s system before the mornings commute.

A meditation on light and water; landscape as self-portraiture.

An outcast girl makes an interesting conversation with a peculiar boy.

Filmed in London. For Annette Carle. Details of landscapes, roads.

A stop-motion animation compiled of postcards, photographs and video shot on the Spanish island of Mallorca. This unique island has a long and...