Avant Garde Movies

By using an intervalometer and positioning the shutter to remain open between frames, I was able to capture the mystery of what happens during sleep,...

The twilight and half-closed vision of the blinding bursts barely reveals fleeting and luminous unexpected phosphorescences, through and through the...

This film concentrated the crystal energy of earth nature, expended the trace and texture of mote. It try to use powerful flicker image to tune up...

Persian Series #11 begins with a "window" of yellow paint adrift in the full frame of multicolored paint-shapes. Alternating black-space/white-space...

Lifting and holding up a chest of drawers.

A love story recounted not by them, but by their belongings and surroundings.

This, the third of the Sexual Meditation Series, might also be seen as a triangular portrait of Julia and P. Adams Sitney and Jane Brakhage.

The 360° project tells the story of a peaceful environment featuring a rare case phenomena where a swarm of butterflies is nurturing itself by...

A glimpse over the Diguillín River through the mechanical eye of an old digital camera. Light’s trail presents itself fortuitously over...

An 1962 Avant-Garde Comedy by George Kuchar.

Super 8mm film.

A colorful collage, with a subtle ecology theme, made largely from footage from trial runs of programs used for many of the other films.

A woman is stalked by a mysterious hooded spectre. An Autumnal homage to and inspired by Meshes of the Afternoon by Maya Deren.

Amateur footage of a young couple on a trip.

An experimental non-linear horror film portraying several surreal scenes of grotesque and violent acts

Brakhage begins here with Carlsbad Caverns as a stand-in for Plato's Cave and then responds to the philosopher's notion of inaccessible ideal forms...

Former European boxing champion Santiago Rojas has been completely disconnected from the world of boxing for several years. He now works at a small...

A meditation on time and its effect on memory. About the rocks the sea tries to drag away from the shore, towards the ocean, with every wave.

Weston Eastward, owner of a small delivery service, hires Garrett Britches to deliver packages to unusual clients, whom lead Garret to a dark secret.

The Greek word for mayfly (its order in biological systematics) - ephemeroptera - can be split and translated as having short-lived wings. The oldest...