Avant Garde Movies

Judith Wardwell’s satirical take on America’s sanitation obsession and sexually repressive Puritanism

A bursting of mostly golden light forms as if heralding sunlight itself in their hurried (single-frame) display.

"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...

An 1962 Avant-Garde Comedy by George Kuchar.

The Beat poet Chuck Miller traveled blind to Inner Mongolia, and he met a shoe repair guy......

This provocative short film explores women's power, force and passion through an enigmatic series of images, erotic performances and tableaux vivant....

A kinetic prayer and structuralist intervention. Shot entirely on an iPhone 11 in a desolate Midwest laundromat, 108 spin documents the mechanics of...

I and other person, we exercise the daily movements by moving each other's body.

Heineken is an abstraction based on an image from a six pack of beer. The extraction of color and transformation of the source image are...

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

1 minute, color, silent 16mm

An experimental media installation of three windows exploring fragments of liminality. Three unique re-constructions of experiential instances...

A short film spelling Tokyo in hiragana.

A hand-painted film photographically step-printed so that the thicket-like lines of paint are “played-off” against some centered...

A dark and visceral journey. A language that tears apart the morbid nature of the dead-old primal human eyes. No warning was given. No mercy was...

Making Space is a film about trying to find oneself in the constant flow of change and renewal, navigating through the anxiety that comes with not...

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"....

A small portrait of the volatility of intimacy and of breaking free from abusive cycles: made in response to a year of collapsing relationships and...

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...

The ocean, the trees, the varieties of cityscape and landscape assert themselves as "pictures", but the images are essentially a wash and tangle of...