Avant Garde Movies

Part of the larger filmic Four Journeys Into Mystic Time, in this work director Shirley Clarke makes use of a dancer’s body not only as the primary pe...

An experimental drama that spins the tale of a woman, her sister, and the man who completes the triangle. Told through such fertile sources as grand o...

Sex as dance and comedy: in Progressive Touch Portnoy studies and expands the relationship between sex, choreography and composing music. He introduce...

Experimental film by Manuel Huerga.

A lucid dream turned nightmarish reality. A ship sinking into a world of fear. A short film that’s mostly puppetry by one of America's most prolific t...

A very personal interpretation, to say the least, of the passion of the Christ According to St. John.

Idiosyncratic composer, unique musician and ground-breaking film director…..Frank Zappa packed more into his short lifetime than most men would manage...

Thanks to his myriad film roles, Lon Chaney is known as “the man of a thousand faces,” and you could say that the early horror era never beheld a figu...

Based on the novel "Šta bi učinio Zobec?" (What Would Zobec Do?) by Svetozar Vlajković. It's a short movie about a young man who is afraid of being tu...

A man is trapped in a loop somewhere between life and death. Based on Bardo, a Buddhist term for an intermediate state between death and rebirth. This...

An immersion into the surreal and dreamlike world of painter, photographer and filmmaker Man Ray (1890-1976),one of the most prolific American visual...

In a world where everyone's faces are painted, hers gets complicated with an experience. This leads her to a long and heavy journey with those of the...

A costume designer is sent to the Catskills for an interactive theatre piece set in the 1920s. When she arrives things seem dark, strange and off. She...

To forget about the end of a relationship, a woman fantasizes about an ideal one. Fantasy and reality begin to melt into one another, but the past fin...

A compelling narrative told entirely through subtitles, lights, and chairs.

The Documentary centers around Zappa at home, and on Tour. The amazing thing is that Zappa allowed a guy with a camera to film the band at the Fillmor...

This portrait of the filmmaker's apartment, painted in the color of the title, was made a few months before his departure from New York. It is dedica...

Man and the Dog (2022) is a British neo avant-garde short film that plays around with the concept of speed. The pace is being constantly increased, de...

Initially commissioned to accompany a Danish production of Alban Berg’s LULU, Lewis Klahr’s cut-out animation refigures the opera's themes in a torren...