Avant Garde Movies

A non-binary teen goes on a journey toward acceptance, after being kicked out.

Following an introduction which establishes the social context of the film, ‘The Politics of Perception’ presents a one-minute...

POSTCARD FROM SAN MIGUEL is perhaps the most mystical of all the films from Lawrence Jordan's "Odyssey" triptych. On the surface, it is merely a...

A monkey paces inside a cage: visually, the short film confines itself to this stark simplicity, yet its message resonates deeply. It draws on...

We are first presented a cobweb castle, filled with the haunting doubts of the young protagonist. Spirits appear on the screen and are heard on the...

Demonstrates the visual logic (and illogic) of sign combining with limited movements of camera for panning and zooming.

A young man desperately seeks the fleeting image of a female companion, and though he never quite catches her, he discovers far more through surreal...

Flares of color break into streams of light, leaves, wood grain and prism-etched vegetation. A moon lifts out of this dark weave to be replaced by...

"From the 1969 exhibition, Bride in the Bath is shown in its sculptural form – a life cast of a model's body lying back in a bath and draped in...

"1969 period. In the beginning of this experimental film a figure in white ascends spiral staircases and escalators and moves away from the camera...

A homogeneous structure of wind and light across tree branches in the South region of Isère

“The Occidental Hotel is a “city” film—I was inspired to emulate the Surrealists’ sense of wandering, of flaneury, of...

Captures the avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusamas creative process as she diligently works to complete her series of 50 large monochrome drawings. As her...

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

"This film was part of my thesis presentation at Chelsea College of Art in 1969. It expresses my interest in the human form and how two human forms...

An afternoon of training for Olympic diver Greg Louganis transforms into a visual poem about freedom, the flight of the spirit, and the astonishing...

How would a found footage film look if the footage was never found? This conceptual art experiment questions the very nature of film and cinema while...

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

Beginning in 1965 with Black Is, Tambellini launched a series of politically charged experimental films that explore the expressive possibilities of...