Avant Garde Movies

The ocean, the trees, the varieties of cityscape and landscape assert themselves as "pictures", but the images are essentially a wash and tangle of...

Edited but unprinted. Filmed in Paris. Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

Making Space is a film about trying to find oneself in the constant flow of change and renewal, navigating through the anxiety that comes with not...

One of Paik’s most overtly political and poignant statements, Guadalcanal Requiem is a performance/documentary collage that confronts history,...

Made in 1969. 1min. 16mm. Black and White

...again, is "plein-aire abstraction" as defined above (painted in New York City) – with, for example, even a correctly toned green impression...

"Twigs" of color in space, and pure white "ghosts" of them in the background interspersed with dark amalgams of these and conglomerate forms. The...

A Green Ray that never features. Instead, we sense it, seeing beyond our own eyes, beyond the hills, we sense it for an instant. We are plunged into...

The subject grapples with the losses and changes in their life as they're forced by flickering lights to reconcile with their past.

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

Short film by Paul Clipson from the Celluloid Sketches & Watercolor Movies DVD

shot in melbourne, may 2024

This portrait of the filmmaker's apartment, painted in the color of the title, was made a few months before his departure from New York. It...

A visual daydream of a late afternoon swim in the waters of a summer in Sicily.

This section is very similar to Prelude 4 except that it is composed of extremely thin-lined colors and sharply delineated shapes which are...

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

Thick weaves of multicolored lines and dull-colored blobs play off against each other.

Surrendering the mind to the hypnotic dance of fire, a candle's glimmer reveals dreamlike memories, illustrated by flickering fragments of...

Childhood memories of the author's life using images of dance performances with music from a genre she discovered in her adolescence. Both marked her...

trees and other things...