Avant Garde Movies

  • 2023
    Xiuhtecuhtli

    Xiuhtecuhtli

    Xiuhtecuhtli

    02023HD

    This is a rhythmic invocation of the ancestral fire, in which dazzling flames reanimate bones and natural elements. This is the shining of colour.

    Xiuhtecuhtli
  • 2007
    Mettle

    Mettle

    Mettle

    02007HD

    An experimental film shot with the purpose of trying to create a hostile alien environment using only shots of nature, color correction, and sound des...

    Mettle
  • 2011
    Le Guignon

    Le Guignon

    Le Guignon

    62011HD

    Jon Rafman's short features computer-generated renders of the Twin Towers and a narration from Charles Baudelaire's "Le Guignon."

    Le Guignon
  • 1993
    Tryst Haunt

    Tryst Haunt

    Tryst Haunt

    4.71993HD

    A hand-painted film photographically step-printed so that the thicket-like lines of paint are “played-off” against some centered pale-hued areas of pa...

    Tryst Haunt
  • 2024
    destructive response. low junctions behind the worn ripples. unconscious understanding and the prayers within the snows

    destructive response. low junctions behind the worn ripples. unconscious understanding and the prayers within the snows

    destructive response. low junctions behind the worn ripples. unconscious understanding and the prayers within the snows

    02024HD

    return to forgetting. g-d forbid to live..

    destructive response. low junctions behind the worn ripples. unconscious understanding and the prayers within the snows
  • 2023
    The Redeye Tapes

    The Redeye Tapes

    The Redeye Tapes

    02023HD

    The events following a surreal network hijacking thrust several characters into a crisis of existential proportions. Leading them on a collision cours...

    The Redeye Tapes
  • 2013
    Listening to the Space in My Room

    Listening to the Space in My Room

    Listening to the Space in My Room

    102013HD

    Ostensibly a portrait of a place where the artist had resided until recently, the new film by Robert Beavers conjures not only the memory but also the...

    Listening to the Space in My Room
  • 1996
    Helicopter String Quartet

    Helicopter String Quartet

    Helicopter String Quartet

    5.71996HD

    One morning, the late Karlheinz Stockhausen awoke from a dream that told him to take to the sky. Stockhausen envisioned four helicopters swirling in t...

    Helicopter String Quartet
  • 1963
    Sun in Your Head

    Sun in Your Head

    Sun in Your Head

    5.71963HD

    "Single Frame sequences of TV or film images, with periodic distortions of the image. The images are airplanes, women men interspersed with pictures o...

    Sun in Your Head
  • 1979
    Maya

    Maya

    Maya

    01979HD

    Hymn to nature, song to the cosmos, Mâyâ builds a world where the camera generates a new type of representation in which the depth of field is reduced...

    Maya
  • 2017
    Munchsferatu

    Munchsferatu

    Munchsferatu

    82017HD

    Munchsferatu is a painter who has become a vampire by living only for his art. An experimental narrative mashup film with David Bowie, Gérard Depardi...

    Munchsferatu
  • 2018
    see the sound

    see the sound

    see the sound

    02018HD

    See the sound of the noise.

    see the sound
  • 2021
    Grid

    Grid

    Grid

    62021HD

    A ritual of grids, reflections and chasms; a complete state of entropy; a space that devours itself; a vertigo that destroys the gravity of the Earth;...

    Grid
  • 2001
    A Week in the Hole

    A Week in the Hole

    A Week in the Hole

    02001HD

    A Week in the Hole chronicles a factory employee’s adjusting to the materials, time, space and personnel during his first day of work.

    A Week in the Hole
  • 2017
    Almost Nothing: So Continues the Night

    Almost Nothing: So Continues the Night

    Almost Nothing: So Continues the Night

    6.32017HD

    For us, a thought always presupposes a society, a culture and above all the consciousness of time. We are haunted by immortality, human notion par exc...

    Almost Nothing: So Continues the Night
  • 1950
    Swain

    Swain

    Swain

    01950HD

    Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of heterosexuality, as a mys...

    Swain
  • 1982
    In a Summer Garden

    In a Summer Garden

    In a Summer Garden

    101982HD

    Part of a trio of films that also includes ADAGIO and WINTER LIGHT, IN A SUMMER GARDEN "draws much of its power from the way it is constructed and the...

    In a Summer Garden
  • 1971
    Focus

    Focus

    Focus

    01971HD

    Early short by Peter Gidal.

    Focus
  • 1984
    Sfaira 1985 -1895

    Sfaira 1985 -1895

    Sfaira 1985 -1895

    5.71984HD

    A short experimental film; "An hommage to silent movies".

    Sfaira 1985 -1895
  • 1984
    Piramides 1972-1984

    Piramides 1972-1984

    Piramides 1972-1984

    51984HD

    Ivan Ladislav hides a true chamber of wonders behind the clear, mathematically abstract structure of his films and videos, meticulously compiled rhyth...

    Piramides 1972-1984