Avant Garde Movies

Short experimental 16mm film.

For years I've been looking for the means to capture everyday life just as it is perceived through a glance from the street. Twenty years ago, you...

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....

MAN AND WOMAN shows full body shots of a naked man and woman shot from above without movement. They are shown alone as well as together, one over (or...

A man’s female friend who just came back from London spends time on the river shore.

A quasi-sequel to Michel Houellebecq's novel The Possibility of an Island, Masbedo's short presents a post-apocalyptic landscape overseen by a...

Gehr uses a mini-digital recorder to look back on the Machine Age in the form of San Francisco's soon-to-be-shuttered Musee Mecanique. For slightly...

A film about a young woman's future plans in Munich, Germany. MUNCHEN, RAPHAELA (also known as RAPHAELA RING MUNCHEN) is part of Mike Plante's...

Found film sequences brought together in the paranoia of the cold war and Vietnam.

Early short by Peter Gidal.

Die Schachtel (The Box), 1968. 35mm film transfer to videotape, black-and-white, sound; 29 minutes.

A love story for the 90s: Valery falls in love with an identical twin, a virtual reality scientist, and finds she can have a more intimate...

(A)lter (A)ction, 1968. Videotape, black-and-white, sound; 65 minutes (director's edit: 57 minute television version).

Edited but not printed. Filmed in Zurich. Original reversal film deposted in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

Edited but unprinted. Filmed in Paris. Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich.