Avant Garde Movies

"From the 1969 exhibition, Bride in the Bath is shown in its sculptural form – a life cast of a model's body lying back in a bath and draped in black...

"A film featuring my work as shown in my 1969 diploma exhibit at Chelsea College of Art. It explores my Mummy Case, then the series of works that are...

"This film was part of my thesis presentation at Chelsea College of Art in 1969. It expresses my interest in the human form and how two human forms ca...

Film by Robert Todd

Common Mistakes uses four synonyms for the word "mistake" (fallacy, error, accident, and blunder) to present a sample of widely held "truths" that lat...

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 avant-garde film presented as part of an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. From MoMA's catalog: "For the monumental installation Play Dead; Rea...

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

An avant-garde "experimental anthropological poem" from France.

Vanessa is based on the untimely death of Vanessa Jordan. A work about loss and Michelangelo.

Sportello Quattro, filmed during a residency at the American Academy in Rome, is about immigration, work and community among people of color in contem...

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

Aquarius is a film about horoscopes and hope, and coping with everyday life.

72 follows a teenage taxicab driver in Columbus, Mississippi multitasking to keep his job.

Six Positions (1998) is about task of a funeral home director.

A film interpretation of a poem by Vincent Katz.

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

Images of the uniforms as the Ohio guard is interviewed off-camera.

Portrait of the streets from downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul.

First, I wanted to make a kind of reflexively impoverished Busby Berkeley extravaganza. Second, I was interested in juxtaposing two cultural artifacts...