Avant Garde Movies

  • 1978
    Shrinking of the Sun

    Shrinking of the Sun

    Shrinking of the Sun

    01978HD

    An experimental short.

    Shrinking of the Sun
  • 1977
    Nanka

    Nanka

    Nanka

    01977HD

    An experimental short.

    Nanka
  • 2017
    Summer

    Summer

    Summer

    32017HD

    A visual daydream of a late afternoon swim in the waters of a summer in Sicily.

    Summer
  • 1964
    Sabath

    Sabath

    Sabath

    01964HD

    Short experimental 16mm film.

    Sabath
  • 2016
    Stabat Mater

    Stabat Mater

    Stabat Mater

    4.82016HD

    Hotel guests look restrained, sedated in the diffuse light of the service provider’s shimmering cage. A network of joists, pilasters and...

    Stabat Mater
  • 2007
    Inclined Horizon

    Inclined Horizon

    Inclined Horizon

    02007HD

    “My attempt at a filmic interpretation of Haraguchi Noriyuki’s ‘Inclined Horizon,’ a three-dimensional physical work featured...

    Inclined Horizon
  • 2000
    Incorrect Intermittence

    Incorrect Intermittence

    Incorrect Intermittence

    02000HD

    “This film offers a metacinematic study of tempo and change and a figure of velocity. […] Ota recorded [three different locations in...

    Incorrect Intermittence
  • 1997
    Distorted

    Distorted "Tele" Vision

    Distorted "Tele" Vision

    71997HD

    “The visual harmony of the landscape is disturbed by a screen that allows us to see into the distance (television). The film is composed of six...

    Distorted
  • 1985
    Städel

    Städel

    Städel

    01985HD

    “Peter Kubelka…was teaching at Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule (Städel) at the time....

    Städel
  • 2016
    Now We Put The Little Feelers On The Butterfly

    Now We Put The Little Feelers On The Butterfly

    Now We Put The Little Feelers On The Butterfly

    02016HD

    Vast horizons and hollow landscapes. Figures in funeral gowns swaying from reality. Withering within without wunnienuther, we wandered windswept...

    Now We Put The Little Feelers On The Butterfly
  • 1986
    Rhytmical Lines

    Rhytmical Lines

    Rhytmical Lines

    21986HD

    A short experimental film dedicated to Polish artist Wacław Szpakowski (1883–1973).

    Rhytmical Lines
  • 1993
    A Proven Partner

    A Proven Partner

    A Proven Partner

    01993HD

    "I came across an old industrial film by Siemens on computer and their language. To better appreciate the film I first of all cut off the sound, I...

    A Proven Partner
  • 2014
    The Occidental Hotel

    The Occidental Hotel

    The Occidental Hotel

    02014HD

    “The Occidental Hotel is a “city” film—I was inspired to emulate the Surrealists’ sense of wandering, of flaneury, of...

    The Occidental Hotel
  • 2022
    N-th Cinematic Nail Factory, 2021

    N-th Cinematic Nail Factory, 2021

    N-th Cinematic Nail Factory, 2021

    02022HD

    The film is constructed from video material that the author shot in 1999 at the horseshoe factory in Karlovac (closed in 2005). It consists of 99...

    N-th Cinematic Nail Factory, 2021
  • 1969
    Untitled

    Untitled

    Untitled

    01969HD

    Made in 1969. 1min. 16mm. Black and White

    Untitled
  • 1978
    Earth

    Earth

    Earth

    01978HD

    Flashing lights illuminate black faces and dark eyes, oscillating between darkness and inverted lightness.

    Earth
  • 1976
    Head

    Head

    Head

    01976HD

    Staggeringly simple films: a man itching his back, a man thinking, a man yawning, but like the works of Samuel Beckett, these minute gestures stand...

    Head
  • 2021
    The Song of the Shirt

    The Song of the Shirt

    The Song of the Shirt

    02021HD

    The work departs from Ernst Toller’s play “Die Maschinenstürmer” (1922), but relocates its themes along the remnants and...

    The Song of the Shirt
  • 2018
    The Storm in the Morning

    The Storm in the Morning

    The Storm in the Morning

    02018HD

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

    The Storm in the Morning
  • 2000
    Esciue

    Esciue

    Esciue

    02000HD

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

    Esciue