Movies: Avant garde

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

A meditation on light and water; landscape as self-portraiture....

An outcast girl makes an interesting conversation with a peculiar boy....

One room, two half bodies, a silent relationship....

Architectural distortions of the second city....

An experimental short....

An experimental short....

An experimental short....

Going back to the places of crime scenes and urban legends, a Visual Bizarre Adventure in Daytime....

Super 8mm film....

A post-modern fantasy based on Lefcadio Hearne's short story "Jikininki."...

Roger Hammond’s silent portraits of film artists from the early 1970s were shot in and around David Larcher’s studio. Some Friends begins with a Polaroid photograph of fellow Co-op filmmaker Mike Dunford held before the camera by the filmmaker as he ...

An early video curio pitched between performance art and George Méliès’ trick films, Drawers sees Colab artist Andrea Callard training her Sony Portapak on a rigged dresser for some endearingly primitive magic. - Max Goldberg...

Three lives caught in limbo between dreams, reality, and oblivion....

Scenes from a demolition derby event are combined with statements taken from automobile insurance claims in Accidental Confessions. In these claims, drivers were instructed to summarize the details of their accidents in the fewest words possible resu...

“My attempt at a filmic interpretation of Haraguchi Noriyuki’s ‘Inclined Horizon,’ a three-dimensional physical work featured in the ‘Dance Hakushu 2006’ exhibition held in the Hakushu district of Hokuto City, Yamanashi Prefecture. Haraguchi’s work w...

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A film about a young woman's future plans in Munich, Germany. MUNCHEN, RAPHAELA (also known as RAPHAELA RING MUNCHEN) is part of Mike Plante's Lunchfilm series of commissioned shorts (made for the cost of a lunch between Plante and filmmaker Kevin Je...

"The video "Between the ocean" is a juxtaposition of interior and exterior spaces in Japan that are somehow connected. The material for this video montage was recorded in Japan in fall 2013 in Tokyo, Fukushima and Tohoku regions." - Claudia Larcher...

This engaged reading of the urban black riots of the 1960s references Guy Debord’s Situationist text, “The Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy,” Internationale Situationniste #10 (March 1966). Along with additional commentary adapted ...