Avant Garde Movies

Experimental short uses Ray Charles' “What'd I Say” as accompaniment to constantly shifting collage of female nude, cartoons, and...

A man wanders an oceanic dreamscape in search of a woman from his past.

How would a found footage film look if the footage was never found? This conceptual art experiment questions the very nature of film and cinema while...

The second part: Brakhage’s layering of images spends less time with images of war, and begins filtering in scenes of Vienna and his home in...

3-D is a hand-painted experimental short film by Riley Hogan. Acrylic paint, ink and scratching were used to animate on clear Super 8mm film leader.

One of Paik’s most overtly political and poignant statements, Guadalcanal Requiem is a performance/documentary collage that confronts history,...

"From the Notebook of..." was shot in Florence and takes as its point of departure Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks and Paul Valéry's essay on da...

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

The documentary examines Frank Zappa and his music through archive footage, including unique video excerpts from Austrian television archives...

A journey to an unknown star, a children's theatre play, an untalented writer and the fear of becoming the worst version of oneself. A mixture of...

Peterson based this romantic piece on Balzac’s Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu and Picasso’s Minotauromachie. The film combines a story of the...

"Assassination" - Adaptation of Hermann Hesse's novel "Demian". A young man's detachment from and revolt against the superficial ideals of the world...

Rock musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

What lives in the space between the stones, in the space cupped between my hand and my chest? Filmmaker/stonemason. A tower or ruin of remembrance....

Hieronymus Rivera (Jonathan Rosado), a strong force in the New York fashion underground, is offered the deal of a lifetime by Cecilia Meadows...

PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn; the second is about Sonic Youth at the height of...

Two college buddies try to understand a young woman's suicide through her Super-8 films and clips from their summer trips together.

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

A compelling narrative told entirely through subtitles, lights, and chairs.