Movies: Avant garde

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 as grand statements of the human condition, akin to the films of Bas Jan Ader and Marcel Broodthaer...

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

Rephotographed pornographic playing cards rhythmically intrude upon a piercing 5-beat score of different-sized black parallel lines, creating an almost indiscernible complexity, until the lined background ruptures and the sounds and visuals become sc...

This is an abstract film of a dream. It is a dream of paranoia, schizophrenia, manic-depression, and anxiety....

In What’s Ours and What We Are, images, motifs and words that originally served a particular political agenda are playfully manipulated to distort and re-contextualize their original status, satirically articulating the purpose of propaganda which is...

This film was created as a gift for our loved ones while we were all in isolation. The sole utility of the piece is to brighten up your day and to bring you back to the little pleasures of childhood. Filmed and in-camera edited in Super 8mm by Roci...

A poetic exploration of the presence and absence of a mother....

This film is constructed upon the visual poetry between what you hear and see, and a sensual fluidity that is not based on the cause and effect relationship. It casts away the practicalities and the functionalities commonly defined in real-world obje...

A psychedelic journey reproducing in sound and images the hallucinogenic experience of an acid trip, mixing original video with images taken from TV news, porn films and army stock movies. ...Substitution Number 4...

A documentary on electronic music made using "bio-feedback" devices and techniques....

Shenzhen River (the border btw Hong Kong and Shenzhen), and the Second Line of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (the border between Socialism China and Capitalism China) were compared to the Berlin Wall. The Second Line were constructed June 1982, demo...

The Storm in the Morning is an autobiographical film. It blends digital, natural, and cultural worlds to build a multidimensional narrative where memories, languages, and images work together to navigate and reconstruct my personal experience and per...

For Barbara Figueroa...

Common Mistakes uses four synonyms for the word "mistake" (fallacy, error, accident, and blunder) to present a sample of widely held "truths" that later proved to be misconceptions. The mistakes are illustrated with documentary, before and after phot...

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; Real Time, (director Douglas) Gordon arranged for a circus elephant to be transported to Gagosian Galle...

Witnessing my daughters passage though childhood with a 35mm Russian movie camera....

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 contemporary Rome, Italy....

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

A correctional officer’s daily routine of gaining access into a correctional facility....