Avant Garde Movies

Obscure signs portend a looming, indecipherable slump. An oracular decoding of the landscape.

A psychedelic journey reproducing in sound and images the hallucinogenic experience of an acid trip, mixing original video with images taken from TV n...

The movie is one of the foundational Greek arthouse films, by the filmaker Kostas Sfikas

TAPESTRY, part of Lawrence Jordan's "Odyssey" triptych and filmed much later in Jordan's life, is a charged record of his bachelor life after marriage...

Though best known for his collage films, Lawrence Jordan here makes exquisite study of the different aspects of light lilting through the early mornin...

A man runs through city streets, followed by a figure darkly dressed, always on his heels. He gets something to eat, reads a paper, smokes a cigarett...

Surrendering the mind to the hypnotic dance of fire, a candle's glimmer reveals dreamlike memories, illustrated by flickering fragments of experimenta...

Short avant garde film. Views of rippling water.

A short experimental film dedicated to Polish artist Wacław Szpakowski (1883–1973).

SMOKING is a brief portrait of Maria Klonaris composed of seven shots. Katerina Thomadaki completed it in 2016, two years after Maria Klonaris' passin...

Multiple black and white screens.

Modified flashlights and stripped down video projectors explore the visual complexities of the ordinary world: a tunnel, a clump of grass, a discarded...

The film is constructed from video material that the author shot in 1999 at the horseshoe factory in Karlovac (closed in 2005). It consists of 99 shot...

An experimental short by Tao Zhou.

A side table and a chest of drawers (played by actors in ingenious soft-sculpture costumes) indulge in a bit of passive-aggressive furniture moving. D...

Goodbye Philippines surveys an undead landscape, textured by phantoms. It is as if this feeling of a legacy regards tradition and cultural custom as m...

To become or become into a solid state, to become fixed or paralyzed, cold as ice.

Representative visual symbol out of square, off axis and opaque.

Making Space is a film about trying to find oneself in the constant flow of change and renewal, navigating through the anxiety that comes with not kno...