Avant Garde Movies

Casa Loma was the unfinished dream mansion of Canadian industrial magnate Henry Pellatt. A self-made millionaire, Pellatt was derided by fellow...

The scene is set in front of a French chateau. The camera chases improbable incidents across the screen. Many are constructed out of one of Jordan's...

Calm shots of a seascape also examine optical colour mixing using various flicker effects.

A silent succession of black-and-white photographs of the city of Montreal.

Architectural distortions of the second city.

Profile, face, appearance, countenance...

Here I am. A mind backed up by delusion of previous condition. Free or humiliated? Who is ashamed? Me or you? It is so hard to share one's secret.

Subtitled “Eros in Psyche” and set to a composition by Tomaso Albinoni, Lawrence Jordan’s rapturous live action short contemplates...

"In my film I suggest that there is no greater mystery than that of the protagonists. War and Love are simply equated for what they are; the...

Time frames.

Our place is on fire and we are on fire with it. If that, what we are, is not any longer and an eternal search begins - for who we are, where we...

The constant movement of the wheels, threads, sprockets, feet and hands suggests restlessness, and this is paralleled by the soundtrack. The unknown...

Living in fragments, pieced together in varied ways, uncertainly, and yet... Inside there is a familiar chaos, awaiting a key...

The movie is one of the foundational Greek arthouse films, by the filmaker Kostas Sfikas

Experimentation with multiple exposure.

Am I? I don't know. I know? I do not know.

Visual poem.

Any body or object that projects forward.

Frame... within a frame... within a frame... poetic... dark and tragic...

Caspar Stracke replicates Jill Godmilow's replica of Harun Faroci's film "Inextinguishable Fire."