The Pursuit of What Was

I, Apostate

A fantasia of post-indoctrination, immigration, and iconography. A pageant of wanderers and searchers: Mormon missionaries, a pioneer, polygamists, sc

2018

White Tape

White Tape explores the theme of boundaries: the frame, the space between brushstrokes and the implications of occupation.

2010

The Man's Name is Spade

A psychological portrait of a disturbed man whose fragmented thoughts and experiences form the framework of an experimental narrative.

2016

My Friend Ángel

An experimental and critical view on the decadence of Honduran society. It practically has no narrative structure, as it plays out as a day-in-the-lif

1964

circles

a haiku films, a poem by Nha Thuyen

2014

Carol Anne Is Dead

A family embraces the heart of evil in this Poltergeist remake/drag-show circa 1992.

2008

Carabosse

Animation, also of a new order in the recent series of short works. Mostly on black space, the figures in blue perform a very compact and jewel-like o

1980

Forenoon of a Faun

The film consists of three sequences shot by a fixed camera: the first shows the balcony of a hospital with patients (soundtrack from the film "Vivre

1963

Blow-Up

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing

1966

An Appropriated Self-Portrait

An Appropriated Self-portrait is an autobiographical piece conceived through the articulation of appropriated and recycled film fragments from over 18

2014

Sunspring

Sunspring is a short film about three people living in a weird future, possibly on a space station, probably in a love triangle. You know it's the fut

2016

The Magic Sun

Multi-faceted artist Phil Niblock captures a brief moment of an interstellar communication by the Arkestra in their prime. Black turns white in a so-c

1966

Totem Talk

Traditional Northwestern Indigenous spiritual images combined with cutting-edge computer animation in this surreal short film about the power of tradi

1997

Jack's Dream

A lucid dream turned nightmarish reality. A ship sinking into a world of fear. A short film that’s mostly puppetry by one of America's most prolific t

1938

Scherzo

Norman McLaren made Scherzo early after his arrival in North America in 1939, but the film was subsequently lost. In 1984 the original materials were

1939

A Silent Day

A depiction of a girl’s uneasy state of mind as it wavers between life and death.

2002

Crash!

Short film produced by the BBC about JG Ballard's Crash. “The film was a product of the most experimental, darkest phase of Ballard’s career. It was a

1971

Frank Zappa: The Torture Never Stops

Halloween, New York City, 1981 Live at The Palladium with Ray White, Steve Vai, Bobby Martin, Tommy Mars, Ed Mann, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman

2008

Enigma: Nazo

Enigma is something of a more glamorous version of White Hole, with a wide variety of elaborate textures (often composed of iconographic and religious

1978

Thaumaturgic Eye

Scientists demonstrate the wonders of magnified objects.

1939