Avant Garde Movies

For Barbara Figueroa

Film by Robert Todd

An experimental short inspired by the music of Gladys Knight.

Common Mistakes uses four synonyms for the word "mistake" (fallacy, error, accident, and blunder) to present a sample of widely held "truths" that...

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;...

A minimalist monochromatic film frame is projected through a glass pane fogged via a humidification system. The planular drift of the projected frame...

A sci-fi filmed in Mount Shasta, CA, Morro Bay, CA and Cape Romain, SC.

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

A man comes home to find a mysterious box on his living room floor.

Filmed in London, sent to Paris. For Helga Fanderl. "Dear Helga, today I have recieved a postcard from Chile. Shaking folds and tearing invisible...

Filmed in Zürich. For Sofía Verder "As if I had the intention to narrate things, I have saved a considerable amount of notes and...

One room, two half bodies, a silent relationship.

An experimental short.

Heineken is an abstraction based on an image from a six pack of beer. The extraction of color and transformation of the source image are...

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

An early video curio pitched between performance art and George Méliès’ trick films, Drawers sees Colab artist Andrea Callard...

Restore the classical definition of planet! Bring back planet Pluto! The solar system is twelve!

This black-and-white nightmare gives Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale
of the dark id a campy, gender-flipping treatment reminiscent...

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

“There was an art event at a closed school, Kataura Junior High School, in Nebukawa, Kanagawa Prefecture. If I did not participate in this...