Avant Garde Movies

Coming out of an accident with amnesia, Sophie Bauer tries to reshape herself in the eyes of those who knew her best.

An old man (artist and landscape architect Bevis Bawa) contemplates the Garden of Eden.

"In this experimental film from 1969 the seeds are seen of my exploration of the mouth motif, which reached its full expression in the...

The script is composed of three stories set in three different time periods and three different locations. One story takes place during an ascent of...

(1970) color; 5 min

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s travels in 1981, this short captures scenes from Stockholm. The footage was later included in his 2003 compilation...

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

The Dadaist, an eccentric creature who embodies the concept of the 20th century European avant-garde art movement Dadaism, destroys and mocks art...

In this short film Bert Haanstra gives his vision - from the water – of a tranquil Holland. During filming he held the camera upside down and...

Three lonely young people, adrift in an abandoned and isolated house, search for ways to satisfy their desires but remain uncertain of what they...

A piano tuner wanders through the streets of New York after dark, seeking artistic inspiration. Sketchbook in hand, he observes the city’s...

Short experimental 16mm film.

An anxiety-free day. Trees, flowers, bridges, the ocean, and people reading (the same book).

The roll of 16 mm film of Shahin Parhami's "Mirror of Breath" was among a few rolls given to André Habib by Lara Breistein, following the...

Living in fragments, pieced together in varied ways, uncertainly, and yet... Inside there is a familiar chaos, awaiting a key...

Avant-garde composer John Cage is famous for his experimental pieces and "chance music" but temporarily branched into video in 1992 with this art...

This hand-painted work is easily the most minutely detailed ever given to me to do, for it traces (as best I'm able) the hypnagogic after-effect of...

Strips of previously unexposed film went into the ocean and these fragments are what returned. In this final installment of a nine year project...