Avant Garde Movies
- 1969
Our Lady of the Sphere
Our Lady of the Sphere4.81969HD
Animation using cutout animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on...
- 2015
Everybody's Cage
Everybody's Cage02015HD
In “Everybody’s Cage”, German film artist Sandra Trostel turns John Cage and his approach to art into a tangible fascination,...
- 1995
I Take These Truths
I Take These Truths5.21995HD
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...
- 1967
Fuses
Fuses5.81967HD
A silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lovemaking between Schneemann and her then partner, composer James Tenney; observed by the cat,...
- 1971
Mangúe-Bangúe
Mangúe-Bangúe5.71971HD
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...
- 2007
Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation
Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation6.52007HD
This episode focuses on Zappa's early 70s albums, Overnight Sensation (1973) and Apostrophy (') (1974). Together they encapsulate Zappa's...
- 1971
Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa01971HD
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...
- 2024
Brutalist Couture
Brutalist Couture02024HD
Hieronymus Rivera (Jonathan Rosado), a strong force in the New York fashion underground, is offered the deal of a lifetime by Cecilia Meadows...
- 2017
async - first light
async - first light62017HD
A collaboration between Apichatpong and Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto from his album “async”. The people falling asleep in this film...
- 1959
Eyewash
Eyewash4.91959HD
A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. - Harvard Film Archive
- 1970
burning dreaming
burning dreaming01970HD
Burn flowers burn ,as dreams.Dreams burn down like they were never meant to bloom.
- 1985
Topos
Topos6.51985HD
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...
- 1976
Central Bazaar
Central Bazaar81976HD
For this remarkable experimental film, the provocative avant-garde legend Stephen Dwoskin gathered together a group of strangers and filmed them as...
- 2024
It's how we all feel
It's how we all feel02024HD
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).
- 1991
Penance
Penance61991HD
All day of St. Petersburg bohemia in 4 minutes of the film.
- 1970
Oxygen
Oxygen51970HD
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....
- 1970
A Bold Voyage
A Bold Voyage01970HD
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...
- 1938
Jack's Dream
Jack's Dream6.21938HD
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...
- 2023
Three Mirrors Creature's Flashes of Flesh
Three Mirrors Creature's Flashes of Flesh12023HD
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...
- 2010
Non Plus One
Non Plus One4.82010HD
A young writer struggling to create a good story meets a cute waitress and imagination and fantasy blossom.