Avant Garde Movies

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

Experimental short uses Ray Charles' “What'd I Say” as accompaniment to constantly shifting collage of female nude, cartoons, and...

For five grueling years, Li Ning documents his struggle to achieve success as an avant-garde artist while contending with the pressures of modern...

The first film in Vlatko Gilić’s Sisyphean trilogy, Homo sapiens follows a suited man as he takes a trek back and forth across a sandy...

An abstract experimental short film from Jordan Belson.

In this short slice of transgressive punk cinema, a woman achieves accidental revenge on her boyfriend after he cruelly kills and eats the fish-stick...

A young man wandering naked along a seemingly endless country road claims that he's an alien. So do the three other young men (also naked) who join...

This film explores freedom of speech in the United States of America

This portrait of the filmmaker's apartment, painted in the color of the title, was made a few months before his departure from New York. It...

A hand-painted film photographically step-printed so that the thicket-like lines of paint are “played-off” against some centered...

This hand-painted step-printed film begins in a field of white light slightly bespeckled with ephemeral glazes of flecks of silver which gradually...

The corner of a street is matched and mixed with the chant of a bird recorded on that same street. A symbiotic relationship is triggered: the rapid...

This film is entirely hand-painted and is composed of such an evolution of variably colored shapes that their inter-action with each other should...

TAPESTRY, part of Lawrence Jordan's "Odyssey" triptych and filmed much later in Jordan's life, is a charged record of his bachelor life after...

Sightseeing Stockholm offbeat through the lens of Jonas Mekas.

How do those within the memories show themselves to us?

The intense and twisted relationship between a man and a woman in a bizarre wilderness, as a seductress accompanies a gunslinger fleeing from a posse.

One room, two half bodies, a silent relationship.

Part of a trio of films that also includes ADAGIO and WINTER LIGHT, IN A SUMMER GARDEN "draws much of its power from the way it is constructed and...

Modified flashlights and stripped down video projectors explore the visual complexities of the ordinary world: a tunnel, a clump of grass, a...