Avant Garde Movies

  • 2009
    Envío 21

    Envío 21

    Envío 21

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    For Barbara Figueroa

    Envío 21
  • 2010
    Envío 22

    Envío 22

    Envío 22

    02010HD

    Filmed in London. For Annette Carle. Details of landscapes, roads.

    Envío 22
  • 1999
    Incorrect Continuity

    Incorrect Continuity

    Incorrect Continuity

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    “Sequences of space-time manipulation that raise the problem of continuity in the shot.” - Yo Ota

    Incorrect Continuity
  • 1972
    Lijn II

    Lijn II

    Lijn II

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    Lijn II is a tiny portrait of a friend made on a contact printer from scraps of a film that was lost

    Lijn II
  • 2023
    Looking through a Glass Darkly

    Looking through a Glass Darkly

    Looking through a Glass Darkly

    02023HD

    An experimental media installation of three windows exploring fragments of liminality. Three unique re-constructions of experiential instances...

    Looking through a Glass Darkly
  • 2011
    Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film

    Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film

    Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film

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    16mm film negative sanded with surfboard shaping tools, sex wax melted on, squirted, dripped, splashed, sprayed and rubbed with donuts, zinc oxide,...

    Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film
  • 2019
    La Jardinera

    La Jardinera

    La Jardinera

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    Starting from frame by frame in-camera editing, the film translates a nursery garden from Chillán into a filmic landscape, with a rhythm and...

    La Jardinera
  • 1969
    A Persian Rug

    A Persian Rug

    A Persian Rug

    01969HD

    The film frame sometimes seems to function as a rug-like rectangle into or onto which the lover steps. Filmed in Orselina, Switzerland after reading...

    A Persian Rug
  • 2018
    Naissance des étoiles #2

    Naissance des étoiles #2

    Naissance des étoiles #2

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    Witnessing my daughters passage though childhood with a 35mm Russian movie camera.

    Naissance des étoiles #2
  • 2023
    bleared eyes of blue glass

    bleared eyes of blue glass

    bleared eyes of blue glass

    02023HD

    The "bleared eyes of blue glass" in the title of this experimental short expand on a verbal image from Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves, considered...

    bleared eyes of blue glass
  • 2025
    Portrait of a Motherless Child

    Portrait of a Motherless Child

    Portrait of a Motherless Child

    02025HD

    The subject grapples with the losses and changes in their life as they're forced by flickering lights to reconcile with their past.

    Portrait of a Motherless Child
  • 2008
    Valentine

    Valentine

    Valentine

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    A short film shot in 8mm. Directed and shot by Kevin Schaefer.

    Valentine
  • 2000
    Incorrect Intermittence

    Incorrect Intermittence

    Incorrect Intermittence

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

    Incorrect Intermittence
  • 1970
    Siris

    Siris

    Siris

    01970HD

    A film adaptation of George Berkeley's 1747 tract of the same name, which consists of an intricate, lengthy proof that gradually comes to connect the...

    Siris
  • 2018
    Paleo Impulse

    Paleo Impulse

    Paleo Impulse

    102018HD

    Paleo is a video clip shoot at the famous homonymous music festival in the French canton of Vaud in Switzerland, where many hippie-techno-pagans...

    Paleo Impulse
  • 2026
    Placenta Mentis

    Placenta Mentis

    Placenta Mentis

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    Five people of different ages, professions, and backgrounds, explore madness through collective play and the performance of surreal acts, freeing...

    Placenta Mentis
  • 2012
    Narcissi

    Narcissi

    Narcissi

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    "Shiloh Cinquemani works wonders simply by framing flowers in “Narcissi” and “Rose.” Her delirious flux of glances...

    Narcissi
  • 2019
    The Boundaries

    The Boundaries

    The Boundaries

    02019HD

    Shenzhen River (the border btw Hong Kong and Shenzhen), and the Second Line of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (the border between Socialism China and...

    The Boundaries
  • 2022
    With Short-Lived Wings

    With Short-Lived Wings

    With Short-Lived Wings

    02022HD

    The Greek word for mayfly (its order in biological systematics) - ephemeroptera - can be split and translated as having short-lived wings. The oldest...

    With Short-Lived Wings
  • 2019
    Embodiment of Darkness

    Embodiment of Darkness

    Embodiment of Darkness

    02019HD

    A dark formless body moves . Formlessness of an entity is because a constant change in form is perceived as formless

    Embodiment of Darkness