Pianissimo

In this film, Paul Tomkowicz, Polish-born Canadian, talks about his job and his life in Canada. He compares his new life in the city of Winnipeg to the life he knew in Poland, marvelling at the freedo...

David Rimmer's avant-garde classic takes a single film fragment of a factory worker unraveling a sheet of cellophane, and alters it through a mesmerizing series of spectral apparitions and alchemical ...

A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as it leaves the station sets the mesmerizing tone fo...

Inspired by an Andrew Marvell poem, George Dunning sketched short phrases of animated movement on index cards, which were then stuck to a table top and filmed. Animation bared to the bone, and still e...

Part of The Children's Trilogy. Filmed in 1938, effects added by Larry Jordan ca. 1965-68.

"Made with spray paint and hand-cut stencils, this film was an attempt at maximum plastic intensity… Places Breer for the first time among the major colorists of the avant-garde." – P. Adams Sitney

Featuring a commentary by Noël Burch (in nonsense French), Recreation's rapid-fire montage of single-frame images of incredible density and intensity has been compared to contemporary Beat poetry. —Ha...

La marche des machines (Deslaw,1927) is a sort of symphony of machines.

Story about a man whose environment doesn't let him live his simple life.

An experimental short film by Owen Land, produced in 1970.

Two portraits in relation to each other, the first of Robert Creeley, the second of Michael McClure.

"Studie II (Hallucinationer)" (Study II (Hallucinations)) (1952), comprises twelve staged scenes that were modelled after a set of drawings. Accompanied by metallic sounds, various body parts, limbs a...

Black TV is the title of Tambellini’s best-known videographic film, which is part of a large intermedia project about American television. Compiled from filmed television news programs and personal ex...

A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. - Harvard Film Archive

A young girl relates what happened during her first LSD trip, when – among other things – her food began talking to her.

A meat enigma spoken in eternal language of director, con man, and magician. It’s about the sham flesh that men create to dam the streaming of truth from their muscles and senses… a molecule of revela...

A short film by Hollis Frampton.