Avant Garde Movies

Three weeks to make three films. Filmed in my last semester before College. "Time", "One Night", "8x8".

Made up of piano, this shows Basinski's patented tape-loop technique perfectly and still stands as one of his most affecting pieces of music; still...

A young man goes through his everyday routine until he realizes that he is completely alone.

An experimental short by Tao Zhou.

Short film about a unique girl who was once a talented piano player turned idol, but one day she quietly vanished. Since then, no one has known her...

A woman rocks a cradle; a man comes to land from the sea, but leaves to view it from a distance.

"A sequence shot explores from attic to celler a large residence that, for the time being, is emptied out of its inhabitants. Their habits are...

(Always) Next to Me is a 16mm film that pairs abstract sequences of plants developed directly on the film emulsion with intertitles briefly...

The debut short film from Edward Pettitt, that blends surrealist imagery with the sounds from The Residents.

These two films investigate frustrations in loving, DAYBREAK with a girl as object, WHITEYE with the camera as subject. Preserved by the Academy...

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

Poetic and romantic amateur footage of a young couple in a garden, as well as their travels — several spliced films with different plots were...

A film about creation itself, a rite of the sun and the surfaces illuminated by it. Light capturing and light summoning "in a primitive attempt to...

The third part of director Seth Tyler Black’s Portraits tryptic, A Portrait: A Dance is a meditation on an artist’s struggle between...

A portrait of the British artists, two living sculptures, filmed in Paris on the occasion of their exhibition at the Sonnabend Gallery.

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

Experimental short film about the fragility of time

For Barbara Figueroa

The first part of director Seth Tyler Black’s Portraits tryptic, A Portrait: A Philosophy paints the cyclical nature of the lifespan of an...

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...