Avant Garde Movies

Sunday afternoon. Images of last summer. A view of the sunset from a hill. Some flashes.

The life of painter, dancer and poet Mark Turbyfill, seen in his 70th year, is evoked through Markopoulos’ unique form of cinematic portraiture.

An afternoon in the woods. Every camera movement a stroke of a brush. An impossible painting. Never completing itself, always starting anew.

Die Schachtel (The Box), 1968. 35mm film transfer to videotape, black-and-white, sound; 29 minutes.

A Green Ray that never features. Instead, we sense it, seeing beyond our own eyes, beyond the hills, we sense it for an instant. We are plunged into...

Edited but unprinted. Filmed in Paris. Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

The Black Album places scrutiny on the notion of "Black Excellence" in a revisionist take.

A group of leftist activists expose the exploitation of immigrant workers by a criminal network with connections to local government officials. The...

For five grueling years, Li Ning documents his struggle to achieve success as an avant-garde artist while contending with the pressures of modern...

The first part of director Seth Tyler Black’s Portraits tryptic, A Portrait: A Philosophy paints the cyclical nature of the lifespan of an...

"A sequence shot explores from attic to celler a large residence that, for the time being, is emptied out of its inhabitants. Their habits are...

Adopting mainly hand contact printing with photographic enlarger, «Metaphysics of sound» started from September of 2006 and completed in...

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

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...

The ancient Thracian bard Orpheus laments ever for his lost love Eurydice. Having returned from the Underworld in his attempts to retrieve her, he...

"Twigs" of color in space, and pure white "ghosts" of them in the background interspersed with dark amalgams of these and conglomerate forms. The...

In "The Collapse of PAL" (Eulogy, Obsequies and Requiem for the planes of blue phosphor), the Angel of History (as described by Walter Benjamin)...

Childhood memories of the author's life using images of dance performances with music from a genre she discovered in her adolescence. Both marked her...

Burn flowers burn ,as dreams.Dreams burn down like they were never meant to bloom.

Filmed in Quintay, sent to Santiago. For Claudia Muñoz. "In the rocks by the sea there is a woman watching the sun set. We read, we talk"....