Avant Garde Movies

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A psychedelic journey reproducing in sound and images the hallucinogenic experience of an acid trip, mixing original video with images taken from TV...

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...

The Storm in the Morning is an autobiographical film. It blends digital, natural, and cultural worlds to build a multidimensional narrative where...

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...

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;...

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...

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.