Avant Garde Filmes

Experimental short film of colors and lights

Arriving in the US with a background in abstract art, opera, and film—including work with German director Werner Schroeter—Vogl began...

A priest arrives in a village and give advice and comfort to different people. He meets a wheelchair-bound former representative of the Communist...

The film is about the deceleration of motion in linear form and speed, establishing a connection between space and love. It ends with high-contrast...

Short film by Mary Ellen Bute

This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.

Avant-garde, black & white realization of the synth driven score.

A girl reads during a bus ride

The 360° project tells the story of a peaceful environment featuring a rare case phenomena where a swarm of butterflies is nurturing itself by...

One film projected two times with a difference of a couple of seconds.

In Madonna, Tanaami employs his signature collage-style animation, combining pop art influences, retro aesthetics, and surrealistic motifs. The film...

a haiku films, a poem by Nha Thuyen

The life of painter, dancer and poet Mark Turbyfill, seen in his 70th year, is evoked through Markopoulos’ unique form of cinematic portraiture.

A film-parable about the eternal movement of mankind from the Stone Age to self-destruction.

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...

This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by...

A visual representation, in four parts, of one man's internalization of "The Divine Comedy." Hell is a series of multicolored brush strokes against a...

An experimental portrayal of being adrift in a daydream.

Playing with the recording of a water polo match, Galeta creates a kind of Copernicus twist in the structure and perception of this sports game. The...

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s travels in 1981, this short captures scenes from Stockholm. The footage was later included in his 2003 compilation...