Avant Garde Movies

Paik produced this exuberant, high-speed collage as a commission for the National Fine Arts Committee of the 1980 Olympic Winter Games. In a...

Water for Maya is a hand-painted work which came into being during a film interview with Martina Kudlacek about Maya Deren. There was a sudden...

In this vertical short-form video, a strange fortune teller comes with a message for a specific collective.

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

In SIBYL, three forces converge within a mysterious house—a space that becomes their base of transport. As they adapt to its strange rhythms,...

Footage filmed in Spain, subjected a new visual effects process. Deslaw devoted himself to the discovery of a new machine that enabled film to be...

(A)lter (A)ction, 1968. Videotape, black-and-white, sound; 65 minutes (director's edit: 57 minute television version).

Demonstrates the visual logic (and illogic) of sign combining with limited movements of camera for panning and zooming.

The film is a trip to the planet Muscovy - an upside-down twin city of Moscow in space. As the title of the work suggests, the journey also takes us...

Flashing lights illuminate black faces and dark eyes, oscillating between darkness and inverted lightness.

I killed two fish for this project, and made them suffer as little as possible, in order to film them and in order to eat them. Attempting to uncover...

The death of the minotavr talks about the concept of the heroine's journey. Suffering, horror and exhaustion lead the protagonist to a process of...

The pantomime of two characters exchanging roles is accompanied by a three-layered phonogram, where sophisticated narrative text is interrupted by...

The long flights of spacecraft have been in the past, as well as the chronicle of accomplishments. Snatches of memory bring to us the fragments of...

An obsessive exploration of the three geometric dimensions in hopes of reaching a fourth.

A whirlwind of improvisation combines the images of animator Pierre Hébert with the avant-garde sound of techno whiz Bob Ostertag in this...

A small exploration in the cemetery from the township of Sainte-Colombe throught a focus into the light, graveyards, flaggings and funerary plaques.

A brief and experimental ode to the humble dandelion, shot on 16mm developed using an eco-processor made of dandelions.

"Time, forward!" - two orchestral suites by George Sviridov, published for the first time in 1968 (first suite) and in 1977 (second suite). The...