Movies: Avant garde

(Always) Next to Me is a 16mm film that pairs abstract sequences of plants developed directly on the film emulsion with intertitles briefly describing what was going on for me personally at the moment the plants were collected. I started the film at...

The film is an observational telling of a watchman in an apartment complex in Guwahati, Assam, India. It blends documentary to explore his alienation and raise the question of empathy vis-a-vis his occupation: its existence beyond what may be referre...

In What’s Ours and What We Are, images, motifs and words that originally served a particular political agenda are playfully manipulated to distort and re-contextualize their original status, satirically articulating the purpose of propaganda which is...

A docudrama about art and creativity; based on modern art gallery in Tehran and its founder Jazeh Tabatabai....

Starting from frame by frame in-camera editing, the film translates a nursery garden from Chillán into a filmic landscape, with a rhythm and structure coming from a personal relationship with color, light and occurrences that took place near the end ...

For Barbara Figueroa...

With some amount of irony, filmmaker Joe Biglin strings together 7 shorts about himself and things that trigger his OCD....

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 later proved to be misconceptions. The mistakes are illustrated with documentary, before and after phot...

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; Real Time, (director Douglas) Gordon arranged for a circus elephant to be transported to Gagosian Galle...

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

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 something about either the natural process(killing and eating) or the more removed process(filming a...

Filmed in Quintay, sent to Santiago. For Claudia Muñoz. "In the rocks by the sea there is a woman watching the sun set. We read, we talk". J.M....

Filmed in London, sent to Paris. For Helga Fanderl. "Dear Helga, today I have recieved a postcard from Chile. Shaking folds and tearing invisible strata, I aim to wander through this city". J.M....

I and other person, we exercise the daily movements by moving each other's body....

A film searching for life....

Living in fragments, pieced together in varied ways, uncertainly, and yet... Inside there is a familiar chaos, awaiting a key......

Several fragments of one day in Leningrad in the autumn of 1989, refracted in the imagination of the artist....

An experimental short....

Going back to the places of crime scenes and urban legends, a Visual Bizarre Adventure in Daytime....