Avant Garde Movies

  • 2026
    The Illusion Industry

    The Illusion Industry

    The Illusion Industry

    102026HD

    "In an era where information flows faster than air, the truth is being besieged. 'The Illusion Industry' is a documentary film that deconstructs the...

    The Illusion Industry
  • 1970
    Rhythm and Environment

    Rhythm and Environment

    Rhythm and Environment

    01970HD

    3-minute experimental animation based on the techniques of John Whitney.

    Rhythm and Environment
  • 1964
    Go! Go! Go!

    Go! Go! Go!

    Go! Go! Go!

    6.21964HD

    Various forms of everyday motion in and around a city are shown at rapid speed.

    Go! Go! Go!
  • 1974
    A Voyage on the North Sea

    A Voyage on the North Sea

    A Voyage on the North Sea

    01974HD

    Marcel Broodthaers’ film and book, both titled A Voyage on the North Sea which were distributed together as part and parcel of the same...

    A Voyage on the North Sea
  • 1988
    Tapestry

    Tapestry

    Tapestry

    21988HD

    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...

    Tapestry
  • 1950
    Swain

    Swain

    Swain

    6.81950HD

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

    Swain
  • 2025
    Six Unkind Silences

    Six Unkind Silences

    Six Unkind Silences

    02025HD

    A Landscape documentary about the silent voids the living inhabit after everyone they love has gone.

    Six Unkind Silences
  • 1966
    Je ne vois rien, je n'entends rien, je ne dis rien

    Je ne vois rien, je n'entends rien, je ne dis rien

    Je ne vois rien, je n'entends rien, je ne dis rien

    4.51966HD

    Seeing, Hearing, Saying Nothing. Ben stands with ears, eyes, mouth bandaged.

    Je ne vois rien, je n'entends rien, je ne dis rien
  • 1961
    Serenity

    Serenity

    Serenity

    6.81961HD

    Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit...

    Serenity
  • 1959
    Komposition II/1922

    Komposition II/1922

    Komposition II/1922

    01959HD

    Conceived in 1922, conceptual design published in "De Stijl Nr. 5" (1923), but not realised until 1959.

    Komposition II/1922
  • 1970
    Desmayo Largueta

    Desmayo Largueta

    Desmayo Largueta

    01970HD

    Desmayo Largueta
  • 1999
    A Silent Day

    A Silent Day

    A Silent Day

    8.71999HD

    A depiction of a girl’s uneasy state of mind as it wavers between life and death.

    A Silent Day
  • 1985
    Night Flight with Frank Zappa, Porn Wars

    Night Flight with Frank Zappa, Porn Wars

    Night Flight with Frank Zappa, Porn Wars

    01985HD

    Frank Zappa stopped by the Night Flight studios in 1985 to talk about music videos, censorship, the PMRC and what it's like to play in his band.

    Night Flight with Frank Zappa, Porn Wars
  • 1988
    The Balcony

    The Balcony

    The Balcony

    01988HD

    The lives of people are observed within the confines of one, twenty-two story high rise apartment complex and its adjacent courtyard in Trump...

    The Balcony
  • 2023
    No Ball Games

    No Ball Games

    No Ball Games

    02023HD

    In this cyclical fever dream, a woman struggles to win over the crowd.

    No Ball Games
  • 1972
    Lijn II

    Lijn II

    Lijn II

    01972HD

    Lijn II is a tiny portrait of a friend made on a contact printer from scraps of a film that was lost

    Lijn II
  • 2000
    The Glass System

    The Glass System

    The Glass System

    62000HD

    “The Glass System, made from images shot in New York and Calcutta, looks at life as it is played out in the streets. Every corner turned...

    The Glass System
  • 1970
    Drink

    Drink

    Drink

    01970HD

    Film by Robert Todd

    Drink
  • 1996
    Prelude 13

    Prelude 13

    Prelude 13

    61996HD

    Singly-printed multi-colored watery "blobs" and "feathery" streaks of painted color, dominated by yellows and reds interweaving in complexity until...

    Prelude 13
  • 2011
    Christ Church – Saint James

    Christ Church – Saint James

    Christ Church – Saint James

    72011HD

    In the spring of 1998, Christ Church - Saint James, an historic black church in Toronto's Little Italy, was destroyed by arson. All that remained...

    Christ Church – Saint James