Avant Garde Movies

  • 2003
    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8

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

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8
  • 2003
    Play Dead: Real Time

    Play Dead: Real Time

    Play Dead: Real Time

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    An avant-garde film presented as part of an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. From MoMA's catalog: "For the monumental installation Play Dead;...

    Play Dead: Real Time
  • 2002
    Racine - 1

    Racine - 1

    Racine - 1

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

    Racine - 1
  • 2000
    Esciue

    Esciue

    Esciue

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

    Esciue
  • 2002
    Vanessa

    Vanessa

    Vanessa

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    Vanessa is based on the untimely death of Vanessa Jordan. A work about loss and Michelangelo.

    Vanessa
  • 2002
    Sportello Quattro

    Sportello Quattro

    Sportello Quattro

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    Sportello Quattro, filmed during a residency at the American Academy in Rome, is about immigration, work and community among people of color in...

    Sportello Quattro
  • 2002
    72

    72

    72

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    72 follows a teenage taxicab driver in Columbus, Mississippi multitasking to keep his job.

    72
  • 2002
    Fumble

    Fumble

    Fumble

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    A film interpretation of a poem by Vincent Katz.

    Fumble
  • 1997
    Eleven Eighty Two

    Eleven Eighty Two

    Eleven Eighty Two

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    Images of the uniforms as the Ohio guard is interviewed off-camera.

    Eleven Eighty Two
  • 1956
    Color of the Day

    Color of the Day

    Color of the Day

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    Portrait of the streets from downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul.

    Color of the Day
  • 1978
    Shrinking of the Sun

    Shrinking of the Sun

    Shrinking of the Sun

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    An experimental short.

    Shrinking of the Sun
  • 1978
    Batsu

    Batsu

    Batsu

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    An experimental short.

    Batsu
  • 1977
    Nanka

    Nanka

    Nanka

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    An experimental short.

    Nanka
  • 1982
    Virgin's Gift

    Virgin's Gift

    Virgin's Gift

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    Super 8mm film.

    Virgin's Gift
  • 2003
    Collage d’Hollywood

    Collage d’Hollywood

    Collage d’Hollywood

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    An eight-minute work filmed on 35mm film, Collage d’Hollywood explores the materiality of the film medium in a literal way. Collage is...

    Collage d’Hollywood
  • 2005
    Damn! The Threnody In Me!

    Damn! The Threnody In Me!

    Damn! The Threnody In Me!

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    A post-modern fantasy based on Lefcadio Hearne's short story "Jikininki."

    Damn! The Threnody In Me!
  • 1973
    Some Friends

    Some Friends

    Some Friends

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

    Some Friends
  • 2005
    Big Black Square

    Big Black Square

    Big Black Square

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    Short film by Paul Clipson from the Celluloid Sketches & Watercolor Movies DVD

    Big Black Square
  • 1997
    Le Mistral, Beautiful But Terrible

    Le Mistral, Beautiful But Terrible

    Le Mistral, Beautiful But Terrible

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    The story is the closure, the film is how pain and anxiety are carried by the wind. There is no use trying to exert control, it only causes the...

    Le Mistral, Beautiful But Terrible
  • 1988
    Norm

    Norm

    Norm

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    A twisted and macabre film by Mróz-Raynoch, which explores an exhibition where the guests are as grotesque as the exhibits (stylistically akin...

    Norm