Avant Garde Movies

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...

Face going out of focus by layering sheets of plastic between camera and subject.

A 3D animated journey through the life of an egg

An old woman is carrying shopping bags. A child with a gun is riding a scooter. Birds are flying. A city is falling. A party is lit.

A man stumbles upon a saxophone.

Renowned artist Krzysztof Wodiczko creates powerful responses to the inequities and horrors of war. This in-depth investigation into the artist...

A stream of mysterious rituals and symbols are encountered as a young boy journeys to school in the fantastical world of Kshya Tra Ghya.

A recollection of almost 40 years of career. A giant image-jukebox, from early 70s autoportrait to films for Alain Bashung / Elli Medeiros, private...

Changes of spatial relationships, scales, locations, and materials are intimated with recognisable clues which nevertheless do not always eliminate...

Twenty images of a camera running next to a chemical platform and capturing abstract light throught improvised gestures and asymmetrical motion

Here's the most detailed, informative, fascinating Zappa & the Mothers doc yet! Their restless experimentation and agitated social satire come into...

A Sunday walk in a forest turns into a poetic journey on perception.

Drawing together footage, photographs and texts from archival sources as well as the artist’s personal collection of materials, Yto...

A portrait of North Kolkata (Calcutta), this film searches the streets for the ebb and flow of humanity and reflects the changing landscape of a city...

Short musical / experimental / collage film inspired and influenced by People Like Us' (a.k.a. Vicki Bennett) early short films.

With a video camera, the filmmaker observes piece by piece her body, its forms, movements and sounds. In shots with the forcefulness of graphics, the...

This film was shot on Super-8 by Derek Jarman in 1977 and is considered to be the inspiration for Jubilee. Jarman often showed his films silent or...

Markopoulos called Lysis “a study in stream-of-consciousness poetry of a lost, wandering, homosexual soul” and felt that the film...

Various forms of everyday motion in and around a city are shown at rapid speed.

a one-reel experiment - part-'flicker film,' part-stop motion - shot on 16mm.