Avant Garde Movies

Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of...

Chapter Two represents a continuation of daily observations from the environment of Manhattan compiled over a period from 1980-1981. This is the...

This portrait of the filmmaker's apartment, painted in the color of the title, was made a few months before his departure from New York. It...

An unseen character observes the cold, harsh world around them while listening to The Beach Boys, hidden away in the safety of their bedroom.

An experimental four-part short film that shows the outcomes of life through a vacation trip.

Future Shocked is an experimental visual film.

The twilight and half-closed vision of the blinding bursts barely reveals fleeting and luminous unexpected phosphorescences, through and through the...

A love story recounted not by them, but by their belongings and surroundings.

Produced using a VHS VCR and a digital camcorder, Vide-Uhhh! is an experimental piece, showcasing the VCR recording itself as Jesse England takes it...

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

Making Space is a film about trying to find oneself in the constant flow of change and renewal, navigating through the anxiety that comes with not...

The film is about the deceleration of motion in linear form and speed, establishing a connection between space and love. It ends with high-contrast...

Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance

Judith Wardwell’s satirical take on America’s sanitation obsession and sexually repressive Puritanism

(1970) color; 5 min

A young man recalls different moments of his life, reflecting the preservation of memory, the enigma of time and the inevitability of death

An abstract perspective into two young South African workers in the heart of Johannesburg's industrial sector during Covid-19

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

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

Our place is on fire and we are on fire with it. If that, what we are, is not any longer and an eternal search begins - for who we are, where we...