Avant Garde Movies

  • 1996
    Prelude 8

    Prelude 8

    Prelude 8

    5.71996HD

    ...as removed as possible from any recognition of either exterior scene of interior feedback phenomena. It is, in its ineffability, as close to pure...

    Prelude 8
  • 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
  • 2008
    Rosa Rosa

    Rosa Rosa

    Rosa Rosa

    72008HD

    A married woman has an affair. She gets pregnant by her lover and they live serenely together, although war is thundering towards their city. Despite...

    Rosa Rosa
  • 1977
    Veil of Years

    Veil of Years

    Veil of Years

    01977HD

    Slow disintegration and aging of artists head, revealing underlying bone structure. Created using old picture-phone technology. New music added in...

    Veil of Years
  • 1967
    Self Shots

    Self Shots

    Self Shots

    7.71967HD

    Self shots are the optical Biographie of an unorthodox film producer. Director, cameraman and actor in a person, he directs the camera against...

    Self Shots
  • 2010
    Me, Myself, and My Third Eye: 4 Enlightened Stories For 1 Imperfect God

    Me, Myself, and My Third Eye: 4 Enlightened Stories For 1 Imperfect God

    Me, Myself, and My Third Eye: 4 Enlightened Stories For 1 Imperfect God

    52010HD

    Features four distinct, bizarre, existential tales about people whose lives are in transition, who are each asking questions about themselves, their...

    Me, Myself, and My Third Eye: 4 Enlightened Stories For 1 Imperfect God
  • 1969
    Cybele: A Pastoral Ritual in Five Scenes

    Cybele: A Pastoral Ritual in Five Scenes

    Cybele: A Pastoral Ritual in Five Scenes

    4.61969HD

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

    Cybele: A Pastoral Ritual in Five Scenes
  • 1968
    Razor Blades

    Razor Blades

    Razor Blades

    51968HD

    In Razor Blades, Paul SHARITS consciously challenges our eyes, ears and minds to withstand a barrage of high powered and often contradictory stimuli....

    Razor Blades
  • 2011
    Christ Church – Saint James

    Christ Church – Saint James

    Christ Church – Saint James

    72011HD

    In the spring of 1998, Christ Church - Saint James, an historic black church in Toronto's Little Italy, was destroyed by arson. All that remained...

    Christ Church – Saint James
  • 1959
    Eyewash

    Eyewash

    Eyewash

    4.91959HD

    A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. - Harvard Film Archive

    Eyewash
  • 1926
    Five Minutes of Pure Cinema

    Five Minutes of Pure Cinema

    Five Minutes of Pure Cinema

    6.11926HD

    Avant-garde short focused on the pure elements of film like form, visual composition, and rhythm.

    Five Minutes of Pure Cinema
  • 1930
    A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray

    A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray

    A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray

    5.0771930HD

    This short film made by László Moholy-Nagy is based on the shadow patterns created by his Light-Space Modulator, an early kinetic...

    A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray
  • 2022
    Crow

    Crow

    Crow

    02022HD

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

    Crow
  • 1970
    Exerium

    Exerium

    Exerium

    71970HD

    Exerium
  • 2023
    Bulíço Mulíebre

    Bulíço Mulíebre

    Bulíço Mulíebre

    02023HD

    Bulíço Mulíebre
  • 2023
    Xiuhtecuhtli

    Xiuhtecuhtli

    Xiuhtecuhtli

    02023HD

    This is a rhythmic invocation of the ancestral fire, in which dazzling flames reanimate bones and natural elements. This is the shining of colour.

    Xiuhtecuhtli
  • 2022
    Man and the Dog

    Man and the Dog

    Man and the Dog

    02022HD

    Man and the Dog (2022) is a British neo avant-garde short film that plays around with the concept of speed. The pace is being constantly increased,...

    Man and the Dog
  • 2022
    are dandelions really so bad?

    are dandelions really so bad?

    are dandelions really so bad?

    02022HD

    A brief and experimental ode to the humble dandelion, shot on 16mm developed using an eco-processor made of dandelions.

    are dandelions really so bad?
  • 1997
    Yoni

    Yoni

    Yoni

    01997HD

    This provocative short film explores women's power, force and passion through an enigmatic series of images, erotic performances and tableaux vivant....

    Yoni
  • 1972
    GAUDÍ

    GAUDÍ

    GAUDÍ

    01972HD

    A vivid sampler of the great Barcelona architect-sculptor’s work in situ, Sokoloff constantly is seeking out the most anthropomorphic images...

    GAUDÍ