Experimental & Avant-Garde Films
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A Week with Azar
Azar, an Iranian computer engineer living in the United States, failed to see her ill sister in Isfahan (Iran) for the last time because of the Executive Order 13769.More Information -
Before David
A short film about pre-partum depression, its symptoms, and the difficulties it poses when a woman is going through extreme physical and emotional changes.More Information -
A 1994 Video Book
Beverly Singer from the Santa Clara Tewa Pueblo muses aloud about history, personal and national, marks moments of regret and of insight in her life.More Information -
A Cosmic Demonstration of Sexuality
In this humorous video, five women talk about menstruation, masturbation and ejaculation.More Information -
A Refutation of Time
A student from the Large Midwestern University receives an unusual e-mail message about the nature of time, tango singer Carlos Gardel, the humorist Will Rodgers, and writer Jorge Luis Borges.More Information -
alexia
An experimental video about the word-blindness condition.More Information -
amaurosis
Vietnamese American blind musician Nguyen Duc Dat faces oppression on many levels: language and cultural differences, immigrant and lower income status, and societal misunderstanding and alienation.More Information -
Animal Appetites
Michael Cho's biting critique on popular cultural stereotypes centers on the case of two Cambodian immigrants tried in California on charges of slaughtering their pet dog for food.More Information -
Asian Boys
Interviews with eleven "Asian Boys" are intercut with images of "fish out of water" in Chinatown and footage from the Miss Universe contest in the Philippines to reveal their underlying ideas about race and identity.More Information -
Birth of a Nation: 4*29*1992
After criminal charges were dropped against four Los Angeles police officers accused in the brutal beating of Rodney King, Los Angeles erupted. This video offers a rare view of the rebellion that began within minutes of the verdict.More Information -
Black & White
The power of visualizing the meaning of the words “Black & White”.More Information -
Demarcations
DEMARCATIONS uses the female body as a landscape to explore memories of a rape.More Information -
Detour: Or How I Spent My Weekend
Two mismatched drifters, Jim and James, are on a voyage discovering the contours of homo/hetero, red/white, personal/political, textual/metatextual in an experimental narrative feast.More Information -
El Culebrero, La Muerte de un Colombiano y el Acordeonista Que No Esta
This video presents the transient aspects of the gay Colombian experience in New York City.More Information -
Epilogue: The Palpable Invisibility of Life
A moving video essay about motherhood and mourning.More Information -
Extra Change
A realistic view of a 12-year-old African American girl's voyage through early adolescence, peer pressure, friendship and love.More Information -
Fade to Black
This videotape is a meditation on contemporary race relations.More Information -
Flow
FLOW is a multi-layered investigation of contemporary political, cultural and psychological dislocations.More Information -
Sold outKnow Your Enemy
KNOW YOUR ENEMY critiques the mass media's bias against rap music and culture.More InformationSold out -
Sold outKnowledge Reigns Supreme
Using the words and music of rapper KRS-1, this video short questions the current wave of multiculturalism in the educational system.More InformationSold out -
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Mi Otro Yo (My Other Self)
MI OTRO YO looks at the work of Chicano artists living in California.More Information -
Ọya: Something Happened On The Way To West Africa!
Media artist Seyi Adebanjo tells a tale not often heard about gender and indigenous Yorùbá spirituality.More Information -
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This is My House
This experimental short humorously and powerfully explores women's body imagery.More Information -
Toc Storee
The first in a series by the artist addressing Asian/Pacific Islander Gay experiences, this multilevel narrative explores sexuality, identity, tradition and personal recollection through gay Asian storytelling.More Information -
Sold outWalking Home
For the walkers, talkers and those who say nothing.More InformationSold out -
What is a Line?
Weaving a narrative of a jilted lover with footage of a train in motion, this video is a darkly comedic study of the physical, psychological and emotional traumas jilted lovers go through.More Information -
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Yanqui WALKER and the OPTICAL REVOLUTION
This film explores a now-obscure American expansionist, William Walker, who through military force and coercion became president of Nicaragua in 1856.More Information -
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Yippie (Newsreel #)
Filmed as the official statement of the Youth International Party, this film is as freewheeling and irreverent as the Yippies themselves.More Information
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