Avant Garde Filmes

A fascinating case of narrative deconstruction, THE SUICIDE SQUEEZE is a '40s style whodunit pressed through the wringer of an optical printer.

After the electricity went off, many eyes grew from the playground.

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

Using the unstability of digital to pursue the unstability of film.

Heineken is an abstraction based on an image from a six pack of beer. The extraction of color and transformation of the source image are...

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...

I set my sights on the human body and realized things, were moving at last, during my first material action, I soiled a female body with mud, paint,...

Caspar Stracke replicates Jill Godmilow's replica of Harun Faroci's film "Inextinguishable Fire."

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

“It’s not my memory of it” is a documentary about secrecy, memory, and documents. A former CIA source recounts his disappearance...

"The video "Between the ocean" is a juxtaposition of interior and exterior spaces in Japan that are somehow connected. The material for this video...

In this meditation on contemporary race relations, two black men discuss in voiceover certain “casual” events in life and cinema that are...

Seeing, Hearing, Saying Nothing. Ben stands with ears, eyes, mouth bandaged.

Face going out of focus by layering sheets of plastic between camera and subject.

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...

A monkey paces inside a cage: visually, the short film confines itself to this stark simplicity, yet its message resonates deeply. It draws on...

"Single Frame sequences of TV or film images, with periodic distortions of the image. The images are airplanes, women men interspersed with pictures...

Peterson based this romantic piece on Balzac’s Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu and Picasso’s Minotauromachie. The film combines a story of the...

A piano player is able to perform a Chopin piece backwards and Galeta will film it backwards and forwards creating four different variations of a...

A colorful collage, with a subtle ecology theme, made largely from footage from trial runs of programs used for many of the other films.