Avant Garde Movies

Divided into 26 parts, an attempt to remake James Benning's film, YouTube (2011) with similar internet footage after 13 years.

Obscure signs portend a looming, indecipherable slump. An oracular decoding of the landscape.

For five grueling years, Li Ning documents his struggle to achieve success as an avant-garde artist while contending with the pressures of modern...

A colorful collage, with a subtle ecology theme, made largely from footage from trial runs of programs used for many of the other films.

A series of individual portraits of friends and family, all interrelated in what might be called a branch growing directly from the trunk of SONGS 1...

trees and other things...

By using an intervalometer and positioning the shutter to remain open between frames, I was able to capture the mystery of what happens during sleep,...

An afternoon in the woods. Every camera movement a stroke of a brush. An impossible painting. Never completing itself, always starting anew.

Picture Perfect Pyramid is a 16mm film which in counter-clockwise spirals, circles a large pyramid structure that was built on the outskirts of...

The corner of a street is matched and mixed with the chant of a bird recorded on that same street. A symbiotic relationship is triggered: the rapid...

Spanning an entire day from morning to night, this film interpolates the difference between dreaming and dreams.

"A springtime Fantasy," everything comes joyfully together in mirthful mythic warmth as Bird Lad's white line on black background richly sprouts,...

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

Filmed in Zürich. For Sofía Verder "As if I had the intention to narrate things, I have saved a considerable amount of notes and...

Filmed in London. For Annette Carle. Details of landscapes, roads.

An experimental short by Tao Zhou.

An argument unfolds in the midst of everything else that has ever happened.

A young adult's first-hand account of "accidentally becoming human again" after, and with, trauma induced depression. Lo-fi, vulnerable, and uniquely...

FUDDY DUDDY uses the motif of the grid to blow it to pieces. Being occupied with structural film, I repeatedly draw 'frame plans', using grid...