Scanning of Modulations

Lights flicker & fade as focus shifts from artificial to natural light, ending on a second artificial light speeding through the blackened miasma of the night sky.

10 minute experimental film. Warning: this video involves frequent strobing.

Naked bodies are buffeted by water accompanied by the music Il Temporale from the opera La Cenerentola and the overture to Il Barbiere di Siviglia both by Gioacchino Rossini.

Experimental short film by Michio Mihara.

A hybrid artistic bet and therefore binding in which the architectural space ceases to be a scene of contemplation and awakens enhanced by the flow of dance whose impulse in a swing between the volumetry of the space and the sensitive gaze of the camera.

A surreal musical comedy set in a world where the avant-garde and the mainstream are reversed.

A 'reversal' of Jean-Léon Gérôme's 1872 painting Pollice Verso.

An experimental film from Jirí Lehovec, mixing the sound process with animated rhythms.

Filmmakers use archival footage and animation to explore the culture surrounding nuclear weapons, the fascination they inspire and the perverse appeal they still exert.

The film traces Sam McKinlay’s early days as a punk skateboarder through his academic development as a conceptual artist into a highly esteemed noise practitioner whose work bridges the gap between the gallery world and the sleaze of exploitation film imagery. It documents the physical processes of his work and the distillation of visuals into sound, most notably addressing the appeal of abstraction—from the cheap effects of old monster movie makeup to the ‘masks’ created by the heavy cosmetic makeup of 1920s flapper culture and actresses like Pamela Stanford in Jess Franco’s Lorna the Exorcist (The Rita has albums or EPs named after several eurotrash actresses, including The Nylons of Laura Antonelli (2009) and Monica Swinn/Pamela Stanford (2016)).

A proto-music video: three minutes of experimental animation set to the tune of Romeo Nelson's 'Head Rag Hop'.

A surreal post-apocalyptic drama by Patrick Kennelly inspired by the clipping. album “Splendor & Misery”

Life drums the playfulness out of a boy as he grows up.

5 minute experimental film.

Tones rise and fall as images replicate and reorder, dizzying, nauseating -- vexing.

4 minute experimental film.

"a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement."

4 minute experimental film.

Live, documented at Chicago's Vic Theatre in April of 1996. 1 Thumbscrews 2 Fly On The Wall 3 Mailman 4 Destroy Before Reading 5 Thumper 6 Bloody Mary 7 Wheelchair Epidemic

Two men in adjoining duplexes, good friends, are enchanted by the song of a bird. One buys a small harmonica and learns to play it; he keeps his neighbor awake. The neighbor buys a larger harmonica, and an arms race ensues; the instruments get larger, until it's a piano vs. a pipe organ, and then they start bringing in larger groups of friends until an entire orchestra is playing the 1812 Overture. The houses collapse from all this, atop the dueling orchestras, and on their way up to heaven, the man puts his small harmonica up for sale.