Avant Garde Movies

  • 1992
    One 11 and 103

    One 11 and 103

    One 11 and 103

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    Avant-garde composer John Cage is famous for his experimental pieces and "chance music" but temporarily branched into video in 1992 with this art...

    One 11 and 103
  • 1973
    Sexual Meditation: Open Field

    Sexual Meditation: Open Field

    Sexual Meditation: Open Field

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    OPEN FIELD is in the mind, of course, and exists as a weave of trees, grasses, waters, and bodies poised and fleeting at childhood's end. The scene...

    Sexual Meditation: Open Field
  • 2019
    Re/cycle

    Re/cycle

    Re/cycle

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    With input from actor and writer Jan Hlobil, director and cinematographer Rene Smaal presents a film in the true surrealist tradition, in the sense...

    Re/cycle
  • 1975
    Atman

    Atman

    Atman

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    ĀTMAN is a visual tour-de-force based on the idea of the subject at the centre of the circle created by camera positions (480 such positions)....

    Atman
  • 1971
    Plastic Jesus

    Plastic Jesus

    Plastic Jesus

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    Tom is a young guy from Zagreb, completely without money, trying to make films in Belgrade. He somehow manages to survive with a help of women. He...

    Plastic Jesus
  • 2023
    Socialist Realism

    Socialist Realism

    Socialist Realism

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    A satirical take on President Salvador Allende's Popular Unity process prior to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. The film is made up of a series...

    Socialist Realism
  • 2020
    Blind Bombing, Filmed by a Bat

    Blind Bombing, Filmed by a Bat

    Blind Bombing, Filmed by a Bat

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    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....

    Blind Bombing, Filmed by a Bat
  • 1971
    35, boulevard General Koenig

    35, boulevard General Koenig

    35, boulevard General Koenig

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    Edited but unprinted. Filmed in Paris. Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

    35, boulevard General Koenig
  • 1982
    Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special!

    Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special!

    Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special!

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    Produced by Frank Zappa in 1982, The Dub Room Special combines footage from a performance at the KCET studios in Los Angeles on August 27, 1974, a...

    Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special!
  • 2022
    The death of the minotavr

    The death of the minotavr

    The death of the minotavr

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    The death of the minotavr talks about the concept of the heroine's journey. Suffering, horror and exhaustion lead the protagonist to a process of...

    The death of the minotavr
  • 1974
    Sweet Movie

    Sweet Movie

    Sweet Movie

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    The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.

    Sweet Movie
  • 2006
    Big Bang Love, Juvenile A

    Big Bang Love, Juvenile A

    Big Bang Love, Juvenile A

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    An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling,...

    Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
  • 1969
    Our Lady of the Sphere

    Our Lady of the Sphere

    Our Lady of the Sphere

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    Animation using cutout animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on...

    Our Lady of the Sphere
  • 2023
    Third Shift Coming Home

    Third Shift Coming Home

    Third Shift Coming Home

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    This audio-visual tone poem uses the language of filmmaking to offer a first-hand evocation of the turbulent psychological effects one can experience...

    Third Shift Coming Home
  • 1961
    The Weavers of Nishijin

    The Weavers of Nishijin

    The Weavers of Nishijin

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    The Weavers of Nishijin captures the process of traditional textile manufacture in Nishijin.

    The Weavers of Nishijin
  • 1999
    Persian Series #5

    Persian Series #5

    Persian Series #5

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    Dark blood red slow shifting tones (often embedded in dark) / (often shot-thru with parallel wave-like lines) composed of all previous shapes and...

    Persian Series #5
  • 1993
    December Hide-and-Go-Seek

    December Hide-and-Go-Seek

    December Hide-and-Go-Seek

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    "Ryuta is 5 years old. Even though he is my son, I sometimes wonder what this small person is to me. Even though I see his joys and sadnesses and...

    December Hide-and-Go-Seek
  • 1970
    Mosolov's Suitcase

    Mosolov's Suitcase

    Mosolov's Suitcase

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    The life of Ukrainian-Soviet avant-garde composer Alexander Mosolov inspires three stories about creation and individualism in the face of state...

    Mosolov's Suitcase
  • 1967
    The Song of Assisi

    The Song of Assisi

    The Song of Assisi

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    Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s visit to Assisi in 1967, this short documents his time in the city known for its spiritual associations. The...

    The Song of Assisi
  • 2013
    Going Underground: Paul McCartney, the Beatles and the UK Counterculture

    Going Underground: Paul McCartney, the Beatles and the UK Counterculture

    Going Underground: Paul McCartney, the Beatles and the UK Counterculture

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    Feature-length documentary examining the growth of the UK Counterculture in the mid-1960s, and Paul McCartney's involvement with this movement, which...

    Going Underground: Paul McCartney, the Beatles and the UK Counterculture