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Nonobjective
see all genres ›The “front line” in the arts, the avant-garde defied (and continues to defy) the market and the masses. Cinema’s early avant-garde movements (impressionism, expressionism and others) spoke to film's intrinsic artistic properties. Often the creation of a single person or small group working on a shoestring budget, films of the avant-garde may not be straightforward “stories” as much as reflections on/refractions of the medium itself.
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Black and White Trypps no.2
"A fine fine example of spaces between existing as objects themselves. A patternistic and memorializing offering to natural totems. Two kinds of reversal at play involving black and white as well as reflection and overlap. These simple elements create a hurried maze of twisting antler branches, twigs, and...Start your free trial to watch
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Roy Eldridge
Not long after settling on Camano Island, Bruce Baillie began creating works on video. Many of these shorts and fragments were little-seen since Canyon Cinema, the distribution organization he co-founded in 1961, limited its efforts to film and declined to distribute Baillie's video pieces. Undeterred, this brevity of video...Start your free trial to watch
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The Girl's Nervy
Jennifer Reeves rekindles the avant-garde tradition of frame-by-frame filmmaking with this spirited painted film. Sinewy fissures splinter the geometric confections and viscous pools of decaying nitrate are set dancing to the slightly warped sounds of Tommy Dorsey and Raymond Scott’s big band jazz....Start your free trial to watch
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Light Work I
LIGHT WORK I is a haunting and impressionistic video that connects the industrial and medical transformations of the last century with the present day digital revolutions in music and movies and the implied demise of 16mm film. LIGHT WORK I sprung out of the immersive expanded cinema performance "Light Work Mood Disorder"...Start your free trial to watch
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The Magic Sun
Composer, photographer and filmmaker Phill Niblock's classic of experimental underground filmmaking with a sensational soundtrack by pianist Sun Ra and the members of his Solar Arkestra. Shot in the mid '60s, when the Arkestra was based in New York, this film was produced using a unique negative process and ultra-tight...Start your free trial to watch
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99 Clerkenwell Road
Filmed in an empty shop, the remaining features of the space are used to create a kaleidoscopic light film. Ceiling lamps become coloured spheres and circles that sweep across the frame. Pillars provide wipes and fades, window shutters are hole punched stencils, passing buses shoot beams of light. A toy...Start your free trial to watch
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The P-38 Pilot
“For the dispossessed, the excluded, the condemned, fallen from life and loving.” These words are typed across the screen at the outset of THE P-38 PILOT, Bruce Baillie’s experimental video portrait of a former pilot outraged by old age and bitter with regrets. We hear the man's disputatious monologue on the soundtrack: “I’m...Start your free trial to watch
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Psycho Porpoise
One of Rock Ross' most overtly experimental films, PSYCHO PORPOISE is a playful, static-filled glimpse at the interior life of horizontal lines. Electronic waves morph into hand-drawn, hand-scratched patterns and then full-fledged animation as an alarming red background gradually gives way to a more inviting green. - Michael FoxStart your free trial to watch
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Quick Billy
In QUICK BILLY, the experience of transformation between life and death, death and birth (or rebirth) in four reels. "[Bruce] Baillie once related a dream in which he, as a doctor, had to suffer the illnesses and then die the deaths of all people," writes Kathleen Michael Connor. "Any human being willing to take on...Start your free trial to watch
