Avant Garde Movies

Women, landscapes and manifestations of color meet experimentally with the possibilities of the artisanal copying technique on 16mm.

For Barbara Figueroa

An experimental collage film pieced together from random bits of 16mm film strips.

A disgruntled bank teller’s system before the mornings commute.

Filmed in Zürich. For Robert Beavers. Talking about the illuminated and the un-illuminated.

A man tells the story about his trip to Inner Mongolia.

An experimental short.

Some occurrences themselves are forgotten and being got rid of any copyrights. What’s more these occurrences were created and shared by people...

Roger Hammond’s silent portraits of film artists from the early 1970s were shot in and around David Larcher’s studio. Some Friends begins...

A group of leftist activists expose the exploitation of immigrant workers by a criminal network with connections to local government officials. The...

Experimental film by Motoharu Jonouchi comprised of both archival footage from the 1960s Japanese student riots and dramatised re-enactions. It was...

“The ‘exhibition’ held by ‘artist’ Katsuhiro Fujimura in Tokyo during the very hot summer of 2013 was one that made...

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

Calm shots of a seascape also examine optical colour mixing using various flicker effects.

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

Experimental short film.

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

16mm film by Radoslav Vladić.

A film of the avant-garde genre. It represents wanting to escape, but ultimately finding comfort in your mental illness (not in a good way).

The ancient Thracian bard Orpheus laments ever for his lost love Eurydice. Having returned from the Underworld in his attempts to retrieve her, he...