Avant Garde Movies

A depiction of a girl’s uneasy state of mind as it wavers between life and death.

The first Surrealist film perestroika years.

An experimental collage film pieced together from random bits of 16mm film strips.

A cinematic meeting point between nature and technology, Doug Aitken’s unearthly short is enfolded in evocative hymns whose voices are eerily...

Part of the larger filmic Four Journeys Into Mystic Time, in this work director Shirley Clarke makes use of a dancer’s body not only as the...

With some amount of irony, filmmaker Joe Biglin strings together 7 shorts about himself and things that trigger his OCD.

The film begins with a series of horizontally running ocean tide waves, sometimes with mountains in the background, hand-painted patterns, sometimes...

An experimental film comprised of Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING played forwards and backwards at the same time on the same screen, creating bizarre...

An eight-minute work filmed on 35mm film, Collage d’Hollywood explores the materiality of the film medium in a literal way. Collage is...

An abstract experimental short film from Jordan Belson.

A recollection of almost 40 years of career. A giant image-jukebox, from early 70s autoportrait to films for Alain Bashung / Elli Medeiros, private...

In a nightmarish world, dominated by the decline and degradation of Man , Christ resurrected wandering, across three different eras of human history.

An unseen character observes the cold, harsh world around them while listening to The Beach Boys, hidden away in the safety of their bedroom.

Number Two’ is an audio visual work which materializes the definite possibilities of sight and the existence of light in space with the drama...

"In my film I suggest that there is no greater mystery than that of the protagonists. War and Love are simply equated for what they are; the...

In 1981, Tomislav Gotovac carried out an unannounced action of being an artist begging for alms wearing a sign "Alms please! Thank you! Begging...

Shot in a series of long-takes over several days, the film follows a flower shop attendant (played by Devereaux, then actually employed at a small...

In What’s Ours and What We Are, images, motifs and words that originally served a particular political agenda are playfully manipulated to...

An exploration of the space where femininity and criminality collide. The film collages archival footage clips culled from silent films, original...