Avant Garde Movies

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...

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.

A Week in the Hole chronicles a factory employee’s adjusting to the materials, time, space and personnel during his first day of work.

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

From Pompeii to Xenia puts in echo times of innocence struck by disaster: the lightning tornado which had beaten down on the American city of...

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.

Hymn to nature, song to the cosmos, Mâyâ builds a world where the camera generates a new type of representation in which the depth of...

A lone man walking across the video screen is the starting point for this dynamic formal exercise. This image and its accompanying sound are...

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

An experimental short.

An experimental short.