Avant Garde Movies

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

One of the earliest minimalist video with flicker effects was produced in Tokyo in early 1970s. A flickering video with eyes, which super-impose the...

An abstract work featuring three dancers, the performers interact with large screens as well as each other. Included in Shirley Clarke’s Four...

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

One of Takahiko Iimura's (and modern art's) earliest works in conceptual video, A Chair entirely consists of a steady (and usually ghosted) image of...

An animated cartoon about the Creation myth reviewed and corrected by two women. God the magician has decided to create a paradise: Switzerland. He...

The most beautiful planet deconstructed, played with, and put back together again.

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

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

This hand-painted step-printed film begins in a field of white light slightly bespeckled with ephemeral glazes of flecks of silver which gradually...

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

Scenes from a demolition derby event are combined with statements taken from automobile insurance claims in Accidental Confessions. In these claims,...

This apocalyptic linguistic comedy meditates on the relationship between language, meaning and social decay and is scripted from "double-speak"...

Part of the larger filmic Four Journeys Into Mystic Time, in this work director Shirley Clarke makes use of a dancer’s body not only as the...

A small portrait of the volatility of intimacy and of breaking free from abusive cycles: made in response to a year of collapsing relationships and...

Experimental film by Toshio Matsumoto created for the 1970 world's fair, Expo '70 in Osaka. The film was made up of multiple projections onto the...

Experimental film by Motoharu Jonouchi comprised of both archival footage from the 1960s Japanese student riots and dramatised re-enactions. It was...

Short experimental 16mm film.

Short experimental 16mm film.

Short experimental 16mm film.