Avant Garde Movies

A video poem concerned with race and gender issues. Images from monuments in Ottawa, locations and activities around Parliament - Canada Day, Gay...

An experimental short film about wind and sunlight sweeping across tree leaves.

a haiku films, a poem by Nha Thuyen

(1970) color; 3 min.

A surreal musical comedy set in a world where the avant-garde and the mainstream are reversed.

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

Dementia draws a woman into a world of memory loops, losing her love her spirit, her present her past.

After encountering Lensface at the 2019 Unnamed Footage Festival, Filmmaker Travis Z. (Cabin Fever 2016, The Midnight Man) became obsessed with the...

This film was created as a gift for our loved ones while we were all in isolation. The sole utility of the piece is to brighten up your day and to...

A young writer struggling to create a good story meets a cute waitress and imagination and fantasy blossom.

Before and after a kiss

Common Mistakes uses four synonyms for the word "mistake" (fallacy, error, accident, and blunder) to present a sample of widely held "truths" that...

Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet, an essayist, a philosopher, and a leader of...

Zdenek Pešánek created the first public kinetic sculpture, for the power station in Prague. This short experimental film focuses on a...

Filmed during a visit to Jerome Hill in Provence, Jonas Mekas sets his Bolex to capture a single day overlooking the port of Cassis. Shot frame by...

"Untitled begins with a flat, out-of-focus, reddish-pink screen on which blurry white patterns quickly appear and disappear. After awhile a space...

Kumaresh, on the run from a repressive right wing party, must spend the night at the home of a comrade who undergoes a strange shift over the course...

"A film featuring my work as shown in my 1969 diploma exhibit at Chelsea College of Art. It explores my Mummy Case, then the series of works that are...

Twenty images of a camera running next to a chemical platform and capturing abstract light throught improvised gestures and asymmetrical motion

While Trevor and Sam are smoking pot, Trevor’s mom comes home. When she finds out, Trevor reveals his father’s adulterous ways and...