Avant Garde Movies

  • 2019
    Rock and Cliff: The Geological Surface of Horn Town

    Rock and Cliff: The Geological Surface of Horn Town

    Rock and Cliff: The Geological Surface of Horn Town

    02019HD

    Video essay ‘Rock and Cliff' investigates the creation of Horn Town, a new model village and centre of large scale tourist development, and the...

    Rock and Cliff: The Geological Surface of Horn Town
  • 2025
    Portrait of a Motherless Child

    Portrait of a Motherless Child

    Portrait of a Motherless Child

    02025HD

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

    Portrait of a Motherless Child
  • 2025
    trees

    trees

    trees

    02025HD

    trees and other things...

    trees
  • 1977
    Guadalcanal Requiem

    Guadalcanal Requiem

    Guadalcanal Requiem

    71977HD

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

    Guadalcanal Requiem
  • 2019
    The Boundaries

    The Boundaries

    The Boundaries

    02019HD

    Shenzhen River (the border btw Hong Kong and Shenzhen), and the Second Line of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (the border between Socialism China and...

    The Boundaries
  • 2008
    Studies in Transfalumination

    Studies in Transfalumination

    Studies in Transfalumination

    02008HD

    Modified flashlights and stripped down video projectors explore the visual complexities of the ordinary world: a tunnel, a clump of grass, a...

    Studies in Transfalumination
  • 1932
    The Cradles

    The Cradles

    The Cradles

    6.31932HD

    A woman rocks a cradle; a man comes to land from the sea, but leaves to view it from a distance.

    The Cradles
  • 2004
    Chateau/Poyet

    Chateau/Poyet

    Chateau/Poyet

    02004HD

    The scene is set in front of a French chateau. The camera chases improbable incidents across the screen. Many are constructed out of one of Jordan's...

    Chateau/Poyet
  • 2025
    Motion Pictures are Your Best Entertainment

    Motion Pictures are Your Best Entertainment

    Motion Pictures are Your Best Entertainment

    02025HD

    Television was invented as a result of scientific and technical research. Its power as a medium of news and entertainment altered all preceding media...

    Motion Pictures are Your Best Entertainment
  • 1996
    Prelude 12

    Prelude 12

    Prelude 12

    6.4291996HD

    A bursting of mostly golden light forms as if heralding sunlight itself in their hurried (single-frame) display.

    Prelude 12
  • 2021
    Untitled

    Untitled

    Untitled

    02021HD

    Short film made with underexposed video footage.

    Untitled
  • 1993
    Tryst Haunt

    Tryst Haunt

    Tryst Haunt

    5.751993HD

    A hand-painted film photographically step-printed so that the thicket-like lines of paint are “played-off” against some centered...

    Tryst Haunt
  • 2017
    Scar

    Scar

    Scar

    02017HD

    A girl who was floating freely in the water accidentally gets her skin cut by a sailboat passing by. The story is derived from personal experience,...

    Scar
  • 2011
    Christ Church – Saint James

    Christ Church – Saint James

    Christ Church – Saint James

    72011HD

    In the spring of 1998, Christ Church - Saint James, an historic black church in Toronto's Little Italy, was destroyed by arson. All that remained...

    Christ Church – Saint James
  • 2009
    Dahlia

    Dahlia

    Dahlia

    6.52009HD

    This work is one film of the omnibus ‘Seeing’. About ‘Seeing’: “Filmmaker Matsumoto Toshio, a pioneer of experimental...

    Dahlia
  • 2019
    Jat Later I Ditt Kök

    Jat Later I Ditt Kök

    Jat Later I Ditt Kök

    42019HD

    About the failure. Maybe as a strategy. About the feeling of searching but not finding, and not even knowing what you are looking for. The kitchen as...

    Jat Later I Ditt Kök
  • 2011
    Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film

    Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film

    Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film

    02011HD

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

    Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film
  • 2021
    Recurring Phrases

    Recurring Phrases

    Recurring Phrases

    62021HD

    A film about endless processes. Images reappearing. New sentences being written.

    Recurring Phrases
  • 1997
    Six Boxes (Single Sequence)

    Six Boxes (Single Sequence)

    Six Boxes (Single Sequence)

    01997HD

    Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance

    Six Boxes (Single Sequence)
  • 2024
    After James Benning's YouTube

    After James Benning's YouTube

    After James Benning's YouTube

    02024HD

    Divided into 26 parts, an attempt to remake James Benning's film, YouTube (2011) with similar internet footage after 13 years.

    After James Benning's YouTube