Avant Garde Movies

  • 1999
    Ad Vice

    Ad Vice

    Ad Vice

    01999HD

    "Ad Vice consists of a succession of colored projection surfaces with segments of text from the worlds of advertising, sport and popular culture." -...

    Ad Vice
  • 1995
    Unstable Materials

    Unstable Materials

    Unstable Materials

    61995HD

    This film is made by some beautiful and unique alchemical transformations of the film material itself. It is a visual expedition into the world of...

    Unstable Materials
  • 2017
    Black River Falls

    Black River Falls

    Black River Falls

    02017HD

    Music by Dick Connette from his album, Too Sad for the Public Vol. 1: Oysters Ice Cream Lemonade. Suzzy Roche sings the vocal. Dick’s lyrics...

    Black River Falls
  • 2016
    Stabat Mater

    Stabat Mater

    Stabat Mater

    4.82016HD

    Hotel guests look restrained, sedated in the diffuse light of the service provider’s shimmering cage. A network of joists, pilasters and...

    Stabat Mater
  • 1980
    Demons

    Demons

    Demons

    3.51980HD

    Polish avant-garde animation in which a periodic series of aggressive starbursts interrupt the melodic dancing of fluid shapes, one raid even...

    Demons
  • 1984
    Sfaira 1985 -1895

    Sfaira 1985 -1895

    Sfaira 1985 -1895

    5.71984HD

    A short experimental film; "An hommage to silent movies".

    Sfaira 1985 -1895
  • 1996
    Prelude 7

    Prelude 7

    Prelude 7

    61996HD

    The ocean, the trees, the varieties of cityscape and landscape assert themselves as "pictures", but the images are essentially a wash and tangle of...

    Prelude 7
  • 1957
    Daybreak and Whiteye

    Daybreak and Whiteye

    Daybreak and Whiteye

    01957HD

    These two films investigate frustrations in loving, DAYBREAK with a girl as object, WHITEYE with the camera as subject. Preserved by the Academy...

    Daybreak and Whiteye
  • 2017
    The Visitors

    The Visitors

    The Visitors

    02017HD

    A stop-motion animation compiled of postcards, photographs and video shot on the Spanish island of Mallorca. This unique island has a long and...

    The Visitors
  • 2017
    Time, Ago!

    Time, Ago!

    Time, Ago!

    7.32017HD

    "Time, forward!" - two orchestral suites by George Sviridov, published for the first time in 1968 (first suite) and in 1977 (second suite). The...

    Time, Ago!
  • 1972
    The Dreamer That Remains: A Portrait of Harry Partch

    The Dreamer That Remains: A Portrait of Harry Partch

    The Dreamer That Remains: A Portrait of Harry Partch

    51972HD

    The Dreamer That Remains is a documentary produced by Betty Freeman and directed by Stephen Pouliot in 1972. Here is the director’s original...

    The Dreamer That Remains: A Portrait of Harry Partch
  • 2010
    The Unnamed

    The Unnamed

    The Unnamed

    82010HD

    This film is constructed upon the visual poetry between what you hear and see, and a sensual fluidity that is not based on the cause and effect...

    The Unnamed
  • 1973
    Sexual Meditation: Open Field

    Sexual Meditation: Open Field

    Sexual Meditation: Open Field

    3.81973HD

    OPEN FIELD is in the mind, of course, and exists as a weave of trees, grasses, waters, and bodies poised and fleeting at childhood's end. The scene...

    Sexual Meditation: Open Field
  • 1981
    Temps Topologique

    Temps Topologique

    Temps Topologique

    01981HD

    “One can not speak of time as a thing in itself. It is movements and variations that give the feeling of time. Men have always linked time and...

    Temps Topologique
  • 2016
    Popsong

    Popsong

    Popsong

    02016HD

    The world appears black on black until it separates from itself, looks at itself, includes itself, and sees colour.

    Popsong
  • 1988
    Black Celebration

    Black Celebration

    Black Celebration

    01988HD

    This engaged reading of the urban black riots of the 1960s references Guy Debord’s Situationist text, “The Decline and Fall of the...

    Black Celebration
  • 2018
    Frozen Ghosts

    Frozen Ghosts

    Frozen Ghosts

    02018HD

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

    Frozen Ghosts
  • 1976
    Superdyke Meets Madame X

    Superdyke Meets Madame X

    Superdyke Meets Madame X

    5.51976HD

    From the first kiss to breakup, Almy and Hammer record their relationship on a reel-to-reel ¾” tape recorder and microphone. Winner of...

    Superdyke Meets Madame X
  • 1988
    Devil's Circuit

    Devil's Circuit

    Devil's Circuit

    5.81988HD

    A film in which the one 60-story skyscraper that soars in the spaces between roofs spins with incredible speed. I centered the circumference with its...

    Devil's Circuit
  • 2022
    Crow

    Crow

    Crow

    02022HD

    An experimental work that explores sound and vision as an emotional response system.

    Crow