Avant Garde Movies

A fascinating case of narrative deconstruction, THE SUICIDE SQUEEZE is a '40s style whodunit pressed through the wringer of an optical printer.

Film by Robert Todd

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

Chopin "Nocturnes" accompany this study in black and white inspired by Huysman's decadent novel "À rebours".

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;...

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

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

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

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

Imported (1999) is about three methods of ridding collard and kale greens of a pesky insect.

Aquarius is a film about horoscopes and hope, and coping with everyday life.

A Week in the Hole chronicles a factory employee’s adjusting to the materials, time, space and personnel during his first day of work.

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

Six Positions (1998) is about task of a funeral home director.

A correctional officer’s daily routine of gaining access into a correctional facility.

From Pompeii to Xenia puts in echo times of innocence struck by disaster: the lightning tornado which had beaten down on the American city of...

A film interpretation of a poem by Vincent Katz.

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

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