Avant Garde Movies

Beginning in 1965 with Black Is, Tambellini launched a series of politically charged experimental films that explore the expressive possibilities of...

This is a short film description of a room, and the way light (coming through a window) illuminates papers on a desk. An attempt to use color, camera...

A short film spelling Tokyo in hiragana.

A film about endless processes. Images reappearing. New sentences being written.

(Always) Next to Me is a 16mm film that pairs abstract sequences of plants developed directly on the film emulsion with intertitles briefly...

16mm film (color, sound); 16 min.

This is an abstract film of a dream. It is a dream of paranoia, schizophrenia, manic-depression, and anxiety.

How do those within the memories show themselves to us?

A film constructed from a succession of drawings on old books.

Women, landscapes and manifestations of color meet experimentally with the possibilities of the artisanal copying technique on 16mm.

For Barbara Figueroa

"This film was part of my thesis presentation at Chelsea College of Art in 1969. It expresses my interest in the human form and how two human forms...

Common Mistakes uses four synonyms for the word "mistake" (fallacy, error, accident, and blunder) to present a sample of widely held "truths" that...

After the electricity went off, many eyes grew from the playground.

An avant-garde meditation on obsolete technology. The film is of a 1930s Rheinmetall typewriter owned by the director. The film itself is projected...

A minimalist monochromatic film frame is projected through a glass pane fogged via a humidification system. The planular drift of the projected frame...

Six Positions (1998) is about task of a funeral home director.

I killed two fish for this project, and made them suffer as little as possible, in order to film them and in order to eat them. Attempting to uncover...

Portrait of the streets from downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul.

An outcast girl makes an interesting conversation with a peculiar boy.