Avant Garde Movies

  • 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
  • 2015
    Everybody's Cage

    Everybody's Cage

    Everybody's Cage

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    In “Everybody’s Cage”, German film artist Sandra Trostel turns John Cage and his approach to art into a tangible fascination,...

    Everybody's Cage
  • 1995
    I Take These Truths

    I Take These Truths

    I Take These Truths

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    This film is entirely hand-painted and is composed of such an evolution of variably colored shapes that their inter-action with each other should...

    I Take These Truths
  • 1967
    Fuses

    Fuses

    Fuses

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    A silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lovemaking between Schneemann and her then partner, composer James Tenney; observed by the cat,...

    Fuses
  • 1971
    Mangúe-Bangúe

    Mangúe-Bangúe

    Mangúe-Bangúe

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    The quasi-fictional story of transgender sex workers living in Rio de Janeiro's swampy red light district, who are joined by a group of hippies and a...

    Mangúe-Bangúe
  • 2007
    Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation

    Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation

    Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation

    6.52007HD

    This episode focuses on Zappa's early 70s albums, Overnight Sensation (1973) and Apostrophy (') (1974). Together they encapsulate Zappa's...

    Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation
  • 1971
    Frank Zappa

    Frank Zappa

    Frank Zappa

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    The Documentary centers around Zappa at home, and on Tour. The amazing thing is that Zappa allowed a guy with a camera to film the band at the...

    Frank Zappa
  • 2024
    Brutalist Couture

    Brutalist Couture

    Brutalist Couture

    02024HD

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

    Brutalist Couture
  • 2017
    async - first light

    async - first light

    async - first light

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    A collaboration between Apichatpong and Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto from his album “async”. The people falling asleep in this film...

    async - first light
  • 1959
    Eyewash

    Eyewash

    Eyewash

    4.91959HD

    A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. - Harvard Film Archive

    Eyewash
  • 1970
    burning dreaming

    burning dreaming

    burning dreaming

    01970HD

    Burn flowers burn ,as dreams.Dreams burn down like they were never meant to bloom.

    burning dreaming
  • 1985
    Topos

    Topos

    Topos

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    During its 85-minute running time, this jarring experimental film takes a no-holds-barred look at the way women have been treated and depicted in...

    Topos
  • 1976
    Central Bazaar

    Central Bazaar

    Central Bazaar

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    For this remarkable experimental film, the provocative avant-garde legend Stephen Dwoskin gathered together a group of strangers and filmed them as...

    Central Bazaar
  • 2024
    It's how we all feel

    It's how we all feel

    It's how we all feel

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    A film of the avant-garde genre. It represents wanting to escape, but ultimately finding comfort in your mental illness (not in a good way).

    It's how we all feel
  • 1991
    Penance

    Penance

    Penance

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    All day of St. Petersburg bohemia in 4 minutes of the film.

    Penance
  • 1970
    Oxygen

    Oxygen

    Oxygen

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    In this story set in near future, a group of young rebels, hippies and 1968 protesters want to cede and make an independent Island from the Mainland....

    Oxygen
  • 1970
    A Bold Voyage

    A Bold Voyage

    A Bold Voyage

    01970HD

    A tragic story of a musician taking a bold voyage in the pursuit of creation, ambition, and need. Letting life choose for him, as part of the art...

    A Bold Voyage
  • 1938
    Jack's Dream

    Jack's Dream

    Jack's Dream

    6.21938HD

    A lucid dream turned nightmarish reality. A ship sinking into a world of fear. A short film that’s mostly puppetry by one of America's...

    Jack's Dream
  • 2023
    Three Mirrors Creature's Flashes of Flesh

    Three Mirrors Creature's Flashes of Flesh

    Three Mirrors Creature's Flashes of Flesh

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    In the aftermath of an emotional shock, a ruthless high-class manager faces her own abyss, becomes pervaded by a sensory spirit and undertakes a...

    Three Mirrors Creature's Flashes of Flesh
  • 2010
    Non Plus One

    Non Plus One

    Non Plus One

    4.82010HD

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

    Non Plus One