Avant Garde Movies

  • 1990
    Fade to Black

    Fade to Black

    Fade to Black

    01990HD

    In this meditation on contemporary race relations, two black men discuss in voiceover certain “casual” events in life and cinema that are...

    Fade to Black
  • 1985
    Black Heat

    Black Heat

    Black Heat

    01985HD

    Influenced by abstract expressionism, a series of black and white high-contrast positive episodes characterized by intense bursts of light and deep...

    Black Heat
  • 2016
    Reflections I

    Reflections I

    Reflections I

    02016HD

    A meditation on light and water; landscape as self-portraiture.

    Reflections I
  • 1981
    Temps Topologique

    Temps Topologique

    Temps Topologique

    01981HD

    “One can not speak of time as a thing in itself. It is movements and variations that give the feeling of time. Men have always linked time and...

    Temps Topologique
  • 1988
    Lolita Separates

    Lolita Separates

    Lolita Separates

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    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...

    Lolita Separates
  • 2021
    A Heap of Broken Images

    A Heap of Broken Images

    A Heap of Broken Images

    52021HD

    Sunday afternoon. Images of last summer. A view of the sunset from a hill. Some flashes.

    A Heap of Broken Images
  • 2023
    Sea of Glass

    Sea of Glass

    Sea of Glass

    02023HD

    The creation of an infinite space. Light modulations over water surfaces, conjugating into multiple alterations. Time and light being reshaped...

    Sea of Glass
  • 2016
    Smoking

    Smoking

    Smoking

    02016HD

    SMOKING is a brief portrait of Maria Klonaris composed of seven shots. Katerina Thomadaki completed it in 2016, two years after Maria Klonaris'...

    Smoking
  • 2025
    Portrait of a Motherless Child

    Portrait of a Motherless Child

    Portrait of a Motherless Child

    02025HD

    The subject grapples with the losses and changes in their life as they're forced by flickering lights to reconcile with their past.

    Portrait of a Motherless Child
  • 1957
    Fantastic Vision

    Fantastic Vision

    Fantastic Vision

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    Footage filmed in Spain, subjected a new visual effects process. Deslaw devoted himself to the discovery of a new machine that enabled film to be...

    Fantastic Vision
  • 2011
    Le Guignon

    Le Guignon

    Le Guignon

    62011HD

    Jon Rafman's short features computer-generated renders of the Twin Towers and a narration from Charles Baudelaire's "Le Guignon."

    Le Guignon
  • 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
  • 1959
    Komposition II/1922

    Komposition II/1922

    Komposition II/1922

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    Conceived in 1922, conceptual design published in "De Stijl Nr. 5" (1923), but not realised until 1959.

    Komposition II/1922
  • 2013
    Sun Song

    Sun Song

    Sun Song

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    A poetic journey from the darkness of dawn into the brightness of the midday sun in the American South. Filmed over the course of six months on one...

    Sun Song
  • 1970
    Koodal

    Koodal

    Koodal

    01970HD

    "Visionary post-war modernist Tyeb Mehta channels the nightmares of the nation in Koodal, at once the artist’s self-described...

    Koodal
  • 2014
    Forbidden Symmetries

    Forbidden Symmetries

    Forbidden Symmetries

    02014HD

    Three witnesses to the invasion. Three accounts. Are they observing the same thing? Were there any warning signs? And, after all they’ve seen...

    Forbidden Symmetries
  • 2005
    Ariadne

    Ariadne

    Ariadne

    02005HD

    The constant movement of the wheels, threads, sprockets, feet and hands suggests restlessness, and this is paralleled by the soundtrack. The unknown...

    Ariadne
  • 1989
    Wal(l)zen

    Wal(l)zen

    Wal(l)zen

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    A piano player is able to perform a Chopin piece backwards and Galeta will film it backwards and forwards creating four different variations of a...

    Wal(l)zen
  • 2025
    Untitled Mockumentary Comedy

    Untitled Mockumentary Comedy

    Untitled Mockumentary Comedy

    02025HD

    Three student filmmakers set out to capture each other's inner life struggles in an avant-garde documentary, but as the lens turns inward and time...

    Untitled Mockumentary Comedy
  • 2022
    The Beginner's Guide to Spinning in Loops

    The Beginner's Guide to Spinning in Loops

    The Beginner's Guide to Spinning in Loops

    02022HD

    From June 2021 to June 2022, Justin "Jastun" Bland records whatever that is in front of him. He presents an abstract montage of collected videos...

    The Beginner's Guide to Spinning in Loops