Avant Garde Movies

Dark blood red slow shifting tones (often embedded in dark) / (often shot-thru with parallel wave-like lines) composed of all previous shapes and...

From Pompeii to Xenia puts in echo times of innocence struck by disaster: the lightning tornado which had beaten down on the American city of...

This audio-visual tone poem uses the language of filmmaking to offer a first-hand evocation of the turbulent psychological effects one can experience...

The story tracks the unhealthy and abusive relationship between an unnamed man and his wife in the days following his return to north eastern...

Chapter Two represents a continuation of daily observations from the environment of Manhattan compiled over a period from 1980-1981. This is the...

A short film spelling Tokyo in hiragana.

"Like a Dream That Vanishes" continues Sternberg’s work in film both thematically and formally: the ephemerality of life echoed in the temporal...

Video essay ‘Rock and Cliff' investigates the creation of Horn Town, a new model village and centre of large scale tourist development, and the...

A documentary of an avant-garde theatre performance, presents an orgiastic rite of sex, degradation, and bloody sacrifice, performed by Zero-Jigen.

An urban ballet performed by street children.

Witnessing my daughters passage though childhood with a 35mm Russian movie camera.

In 1981, Tomislav Gotovac carried out an unannounced action of being an artist begging for alms wearing a sign "Alms please! Thank you! Begging...

I spent a day inside a small abandoned military fort by the sea. With the tide went up and down, I appeared and disappeared into the water.

An avant-garde "experimental anthropological poem" from France.

Druga linija aka The Other Line is a product of many years of research of neo-avant-garde cultural and art scene in Novi Sad, Serbia (late 60s and...

3-minute experimental animation based on the techniques of John Whitney.

A compelling narrative told entirely through subtitles, lights, and chairs.

Filmed in a decaying housing estate in east London, "Rhythm 06" renders the outer trappings of internal collapse, a choreography of layers of the...

In an abandoned, timeless government archive, an unprecedented case is opened: the trial of "The Future" on charges of existential fraud against...

"1969 period. In the beginning of this experimental film a figure in white ascends spiral staircases and escalators and moves away from the camera...