Avant Garde Movies

A short film following a young woman as she's pursued by a mysterious stranger in the woods.

The movements across the 2-dimensional space, and in and out of elevators through 3-dimensional space, suggest a conceptual map of the visible...

A flickering survey of worlds both urban and botanical. The field of vision unrolls indefinitely into off-screen space – a durational panorama,...

This psychedelic horror short inspired by vintage cinema follows a raped girl's descent into derangement and makes the audience feel as...

A film in three parts: a man talking while a telephone rings, a walking tour of New York, and a goldfish swimming.

Electro-Pythagorus is an intimate and subjective portrait of the late Martin Bartlett, the Canadian electronic music pioneer who studied with Pauline...

As a major storm strikes Texas in 1900, a mysterious televisual device is built and tested. Blake Williams’ experimental 3D sci-fi film...

A girl reads during a bus ride

An engine moves from the roundhouse to a track where it couples with several passenger cars. At 2:10 in the afternoon, it starts a trip out of the...

Flashing lights illuminate black faces and dark eyes, oscillating between darkness and inverted lightness.

Short experimental 16mm film.

An 1962 Avant-Garde Comedy by George Kuchar.

Saw and imagined in the children's fantasy the story of grandmother of Christ and the Apostles a little girl. Today few people remember that just a...

“Last August, several filmmakers joined me to repair the splices in Markopoulos’s Eniaios. I interrupted our work for a moment; the...

Short experimental 16mm film.

POSTCARD FROM SAN MIGUEL is perhaps the most mystical of all the films from Lawrence Jordan's "Odyssey" triptych. On the surface, it is merely a...

Munchsferatu is a painter who has become a vampire by living only for his art. An experimental narrative mashup film with David Bowie, Gérard...

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