Avant Garde Movies

One morning, the late Karlheinz Stockhausen awoke from a dream that told him to take to the sky. Stockhausen envisioned four helicopters swirling in...

A young man goes through his everyday routine until he realizes that he is completely alone.

A triple exposure on EXR 50D 16mm film: two layers shot in summer, and the third captured on the cusp of winter. A collection of statues fading in...

In this cyclical fever dream, a woman struggles to win over the crowd.

During WWII, the Japanese army developed experimental balloons able to cross the Pacific Ocean and reach the West Coast of North America in 3-6 days....

Filmed on location in Harlem and in Monet’s historic gardens in Giverny, this multi-textured cinematic poem meditates on the bodily integrity...

An experimental short inspired by the music of Gladys Knight.

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

On a remote almost uninhabited island, there are two gently friendly representatives of the once opposing sides. They have long been accustomed to...

Eleven young film-makers got together to collaborate in this atypical project. Atypical not only because of its technical specs, but because of its...

Luis Bunuel, the father of cinematic Surrealism, made his film debut with 'Un Chien Andalou' in 1929 working closely with Salvador Dali. Considered...

In The Jungle, playfully and sorrowfully tells the tale of an unreliable narrator in a self imposed exile. Given a grant to study the equivalent of...

A Manhattan professor's (William Raymond, Larry Loonin) unseen artist wife mocks his pitiful existence.

“The Occidental Hotel is a “city” film—I was inspired to emulate the Surrealists’ sense of wandering, of flaneury, of...

Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of...

A concert by King Crimson recorded at the Arena Frejus, France on August 27th, 1982. Track Listing: Waiting Man, Matte Kudasai, The Sheltering...

Profile of the late iconoclastic director Curtis Harrington, featuring images from many of his poetic and haunting films.

A bunch of spectators trapped in a cinema theatre.

An employee at the Getty owned Pierre Hotel in New York City wondered why there were so many Germans being hired and staying at The Pierre during...