Avant Garde Movies

  • 1964
    Re-entry

    Re-entry

    Re-entry

    5.81964HD

    "In Re-entry he successfully synthesizes the Yogic and the cosmological elements in his art for the first time by forcefully abstracting and playing...

    Re-entry
  • 2024
    French Poem

    French Poem

    French Poem

    02024HD

    Two men sit in a car, watching the world through the windshield. One is silent, the other is slowly drinking himself to death. External reality...

    French Poem
  • 2003
    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8

    02003HD

    An avant-garde meditation on obsolete technology. The film is of a 1930s Rheinmetall typewriter owned by the director. The film itself is projected...

    Rheinmetall/Victoria 8
  • 2018
    .TV

    .TV

    .TV

    72018HD

    .TV is a found footage essay film: Voicemails left by an anonymous caller from the future guide us to the remote islands of Tuvalu, a place the...

    .TV
  • 1988
    Black Celebration

    Black Celebration

    Black Celebration

    01988HD

    This engaged reading of the urban black riots of the 1960s references Guy Debord’s Situationist text, “The Decline and Fall of the...

    Black Celebration
  • 1996
    Prelude 11

    Prelude 11

    Prelude 11

    5.81996HD

    Thick weaves of multicolored lines and dull-colored blobs play off against each other.

    Prelude 11
  • 1977
    Peripeteia I

    Peripeteia I

    Peripeteia I

    01977HD

    Peripeteia I and Peripeteia II, shot by the artist in Oregon’s rainforest, alone and without electricity. "Navigation spiraling sunwards....

    Peripeteia I
  • 2007
    Entr'acte

    Entr'acte

    Entr'acte

    02007HD

    A side table and a chest of drawers (played by actors in ingenious soft-sculpture costumes) indulge in a bit of passive-aggressive furniture moving....

    Entr'acte
  • 2001
    The Ground

    The Ground

    The Ground

    62001HD

    Interweaving stonework and filmmaking, Beavers evokes memory through hammer strokes and chisel sounds that shape both image and rhythm. In this...

    The Ground
  • 2023
    The Black Album

    The Black Album

    The Black Album

    02023HD

    The Black Album places scrutiny on the notion of "Black Excellence" in a revisionist take.

    The Black Album
  • 2013
    Envío 27

    Envío 27

    Envío 27

    02013HD

    Filmed in Quintay, sent to Santiago. For Claudia Muñoz. "In the rocks by the sea there is a woman watching the sun set. We read, we talk"....

    Envío 27
  • 2007
    Inclined Horizon

    Inclined Horizon

    Inclined Horizon

    02007HD

    “My attempt at a filmic interpretation of Haraguchi Noriyuki’s ‘Inclined Horizon,’ a three-dimensional physical work featured...

    Inclined Horizon
  • 2011
    Tape

    Tape

    Tape

    02011HD

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

    Tape
  • 2025
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    02025HD

    A visual essay shot entirely on a Nintendo 3DS

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  • 2018
    The Sublime of Rectum

    The Sublime of Rectum

    The Sublime of Rectum

    02018HD

    A visually provoking short film about one of the most extreme homosexual practices.

    The Sublime of Rectum
  • 1970
    Inadequateness of a shadow

    Inadequateness of a shadow

    Inadequateness of a shadow

    01970HD

    A foolish shadow attempts to behave like a real entity but the irony takes place

    Inadequateness of a shadow
  • 1970
    Blinking

    Blinking

    Blinking

    01970HD

    One of the earliest minimalist video with flicker effects was produced in Tokyo in early 1970s. A flickering video with eyes, which super-impose the...

    Blinking
  • 2011
    Diptych: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name

    Diptych: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name

    Diptych: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name

    22011HD

    Inspired by the famous gay Greek painter Giannis Tsarouhis' paintings, Diptych is a contemplation on male beauty, the impossibility of open gay love...

    Diptych: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name
  • 1972
    Imagens

    Imagens

    Imagens

    6.21972HD

    Without any sounds, dialogues and with unknown actors, the images are the focus of this film. Images that want to awake, to question determinant...

    Imagens
  • 2014
    Intransit

    Intransit

    Intransit

    12014HD

    A thrillingly lo-fi salute to the old-school, hand-crafted special effects that were once a mainstay of pre-CGI science-fiction films.

    Intransit