Avant Garde Movies

  • 1969
    Gloria in the Glass

    Gloria in the Glass

    Gloria in the Glass

    01969HD

    1 minute, color, silent 16mm

    Gloria in the Glass
  • 1978
    Earth

    Earth

    Earth

    01978HD

    Flashing lights illuminate black faces and dark eyes, oscillating between darkness and inverted lightness.

    Earth
  • 1978
    Peripeteia II

    Peripeteia II

    Peripeteia II

    01978HD

    Peripeteia I and Peripeteia II, shot by the artist in Oregon’s rainforest, alone and without electricity

    Peripeteia II
  • 1977
    Peripeteia I

    Peripeteia I

    Peripeteia I

    01977HD

    Peripeteia I and Peripeteia II, shot by the artist in Oregon’s rainforest, alone and without electricity.

    Peripeteia I
  • 1968
    Welcome to Come

    Welcome to Come

    Welcome to Come

    01968HD

    Welcome to Come, which depicts a somewhat mysterious transformation of the image in the course of a single zoom, was my only film to achieve a small m...

    Welcome to Come
  • 1967
    A Sense of the Past

    A Sense of the Past

    A Sense of the Past

    01967HD

    This is a short film description of a room, and the way light (coming through a window) illuminates papers on a desk. An attempt to use color, camera...

    A Sense of the Past
  • 1969
    Stand Up and Be Counted

    Stand Up and Be Counted

    Stand Up and Be Counted

    01969HD

    A continuous dissolve into a series of happy nude couples in various configurations: female/male, female/female, male/male, as the Rolling Stones sing...

    Stand Up and Be Counted
  • 1998
    Watching a Movie

    Watching a Movie

    Watching a Movie

    01998HD

    A young man, attempting to watch a VHS tape of "Love Streams" by John Cassavetes on his television, is constantly harassed and annoyed by outside forc...

    Watching a Movie
  • 1992
    Han (on the sun)

    Han (on the sun)

    Han (on the sun)

    01992HD

    Han closes a trilogy that began with Ere erera baleibu... (1968) and continued with Impressions en haute atmosphère (1991),which goes from the microc...

    Han (on the sun)
  • 1976
    Head

    Head

    Head

    01976HD

    Staggeringly simple films: a man itching his back, a man thinking, a man yawning, but like the works of Samuel Beckett, these minute gestures stand in...

    Head
  • 1975
    Itch

    Itch

    Itch

    01975HD

    Staggeringly simple films: a man itching his back, a man thinking, a man yawning, but like the works of Samuel Beckett, these minute gestures stand in...

    Itch
  • 1982
    Ghost Sonata

    Ghost Sonata

    Ghost Sonata

    01982HD

    Video project dubbed "an Opera without Words" made by the experimental, avant-garde band Tuxedomoon.

    Ghost Sonata
  • 1976
    Skyworks: "Light, Lighten, Lightning" (Three Mile Drop)

    Skyworks: "Light, Lighten, Lightning" (Three Mile Drop)

    Skyworks: "Light, Lighten, Lightning" (Three Mile Drop)

    01976HD

    16mm film (color, sound); 16 min.

    Skyworks: "Light, Lighten, Lightning" (Three Mile Drop)
  • 1990
    Protective Coloration

    Protective Coloration

    Protective Coloration

    01990HD

    This film is a succession of visual and aural "notes" generated by the patterns in animals' hides, which are arranged and re-edited into a complex mus...

    Protective Coloration
  • 1988
    Satrapy

    Satrapy

    Satrapy

    01988HD

    Rephotographed pornographic playing cards rhythmically intrude upon a piercing 5-beat score of different-sized black parallel lines, creating an almos...

    Satrapy
  • 2025
    Casual Workers

    Casual Workers

    Casual Workers

    02025HD

    An abstract perspective into two young South African workers in the heart of Johannesburg's industrial sector during Covid-19

    Casual Workers
  • 1989
    Self-Organization of Biological Systems

    Self-Organization of Biological Systems

    Self-Organization of Biological Systems

    01989HD

    The pantomime of two characters exchanging roles is accompanied by a three-layered phonogram, where sophisticated narrative text is interrupted by sli...

    Self-Organization of Biological Systems
  • 1969
    Max Ernst, Une Semaine de Bonte

    Max Ernst, Une Semaine de Bonte

    Max Ernst, Une Semaine de Bonte

    01969HD

    "This film was presented as part of my 1969 thesis on Max Ernst. It was a personal tribute where I filmed his collages, then intercut live footage I s...

    Max Ernst, Une Semaine de Bonte
  • 1969
    Stairs, Tunnels and Mirrors

    Stairs, Tunnels and Mirrors

    Stairs, Tunnels and Mirrors

    01969HD

    "1969 period. In the beginning of this experimental film a figure in white ascends spiral staircases and escalators and moves away from the camera dow...

    Stairs, Tunnels and Mirrors
  • 1969
    Mouths and Masks

    Mouths and Masks

    Mouths and Masks

    01969HD

    "In this experimental film from 1969 the seeds are seen of my exploration of the mouth motif, which reached its full expression in the ‘Opening’ exhib...

    Mouths and Masks