Avant Garde Movies

A thrillingly lo-fi salute to the old-school, hand-crafted special effects that were once a mainstay of pre-CGI science-fiction films.

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...

In "The Lead Shoes", we can neither thrust in our eyes nor our ears to help us understand how time flows or how space is. Therefore, Peterson forces...

The film is constructed from video material that the author shot in 1999 at the horseshoe factory in Karlovac (closed in 2005). It consists of 99...

A short film spelling Tokyo in hiragana.

A man runs through city streets, followed by a figure darkly dressed, always on his heels. He gets something to eat, reads a paper, smokes a...

In What’s Ours and What We Are, images, motifs and words that originally served a particular political agenda are playfully manipulated to...

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.

How do those within the memories show themselves to us?

An essay on the brutality of beauty and innocence in a hostile world.

Starting from frame by frame in-camera editing, the film translates a nursery garden from Chillán into a filmic landscape, with a rhythm and...

Women, landscapes and manifestations of color meet experimentally with the possibilities of the artisanal copying technique on 16mm.

For Barbara Figueroa

An experimental short inspired by the music of Gladys Knight.

An avant-garde meditation on obsolete technology. The film is of a 1930s Rheinmetall typewriter owned by the director. The film itself is projected...

An experimental collage film pieced together from random bits of 16mm film strips.

Imported (1999) is about three methods of ridding collard and kale greens of a pesky insect.

A disgruntled bank teller’s system before the mornings commute.

Filmed in Zürich. For Robert Beavers. Talking about the illuminated and the un-illuminated.