Avant Garde Movies

A bursting of mostly golden light forms as if heralding sunlight itself in their hurried (single-frame) display.

An abstract experimental short film from Jordan Belson.

Two screens of a graveyard, one during the day and one at night. The duality of everything that exists in the universe.

Film produced and directed by Ricky Leacock, Edward Pincus, and MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies documenting the Centerbeam kinetic sculpture pr...

This film evolves from several years’ observation of the sexual energy which charges the world of business and the qualities of palatial environ which...

After disbanding the original Mothers of Invention in '69, Frank Zappa unleashed a second incarnation of the band by '70. This film focuses on the sop...

Four acts: RE-VO-LU-TION.

In 1952, Haanstra made Panta Rhei , another view of Holland through the eyes of a painter and filmmaker. Its poetic images of water, skies and clouds...

Collective experimental film by Team 8mm TENGOKU.

Avant-garde homage to pre-revolution Russian silent movies, and to the poet Aleksandr Blok.

The first film in Vlatko Gilić’s Sisyphean trilogy, Homo sapiens follows a suited man as he takes a trek back and forth across a sandy desert to fill...

"Time, forward!" - two orchestral suites by George Sviridov, published for the first time in 1968 (first suite) and in 1977 (second suite). The suites...

An experimental film that lifts the veil on the world of African American drag racing.

(A)lter (A)ction, 1968. Videotape, black-and-white, sound; 65 minutes (director's edit: 57 minute television version).

A young man recalls different moments of his life, reflecting the preservation of memory, the enigma of time and the inevitability of death

Coming out of an accident with amnesia, Sophie Bauer tries to reshape herself in the eyes of those who knew her best.

Mockumentary experimental film, which shows one day in the life of a young man. The action takes place on the Day of Soviet Cosmonautics, April 12, on...

In the small town of Ethham, strange goings on have been occurring and the only people who know are the young adolescents of the town. Will they eithe...

A drifter spends the night in an abandoned house and encounters a Window of Consciousness. This award-winning film combines elements of art house, ava...