Avant Garde Movies

The veneer of the story is a tale of chance love: two French expatriates strike up a chance romance when they meet on a ship headed back to South...

Three slackers from Grand Rapids drive across America in an old motorhome searching for a mysterious folk music festival in the desert. Along the...

...as removed as possible from any recognition of either exterior scene of interior feedback phenomena. It is, in its ineffability, as close to pure...

Arriving in the US with a background in abstract art, opera, and film—including work with German director Werner Schroeter—Vogl began...

Kumaresh, on the run from a repressive right wing party, must spend the night at the home of a comrade who undergoes a strange shift over the course...

The story is the closure, the film is how pain and anxiety are carried by the wind. There is no use trying to exert control, it only causes the...

An abstract experimental short film from Jordan Belson.

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

It’s any day, any year in the house of Alan and Vera Ellis in their Post-Industrial English conurbation formerly known for their world renown...

An eight-hour contemplative epic, entirely starring sheep.

A forgotten faceless celebrity ascends into heaven along the path of self-discovery and through a land of faded memory.

This film is entirely hand-painted and is composed of such an evolution of variably colored shapes that their inter-action with each other should...

"Assassination" - Adaptation of Hermann Hesse's novel "Demian". A young man's detachment from and revolt against the superficial ideals of the world...

Renowned artist Krzysztof Wodiczko creates powerful responses to the inequities and horrors of war. This in-depth investigation into the artist...

Persian Series #11 begins with a "window" of yellow paint adrift in the full frame of multicolored paint-shapes. Alternating black-space/white-space...

The 1980s, the Tuscan countryside. Two young lovers are driving east to enjoy the dawn but they end up at the scene of a crime and become the new...

“Peter Kubelka…was teaching at Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule (Städel) at the time....

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

"A good friend of mine died at 9:10 a.m. Saturday, July 21, 2007... my film piece is called "Quiet Chaos of Desire" it comes out of my experience in...