Avant Garde Movies

  • 2023
    Socialist Realism

    Socialist Realism

    Socialist Realism

    72023HD

    A satirical take on President Salvador Allende's Popular Unity process prior to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. The film is made up of a series...

    Socialist Realism
  • 2025
    Angels

    Angels

    Angels

    02025HD

    An experimental horror film depicting two angels killing and teaching a lesson to 7 people, each of whom live committing one of the deadly sins.

    Angels
  • 1973
    Global Groove

    Global Groove

    Global Groove

    7.71973HD

    Global Groove was a collaborative piece by Nam June Paik and John Godfrey. Paik, amongst other artists who shared the same vision in the 1960s, saw...

    Global Groove
  • 1982
    Hotel Cartograph

    Hotel Cartograph

    Hotel Cartograph

    01982HD

    The movements across the 2-dimensional space, and in and out of elevators through 3-dimensional space, suggest a conceptual map of the visible...

    Hotel Cartograph
  • 2023
    Cyclepaths

    Cyclepaths

    Cyclepaths

    02023HD

    An old woman is carrying shopping bags. A child with a gun is riding a scooter. Birds are flying. A city is falling. A party is lit.

    Cyclepaths
  • 1961
    Serenity

    Serenity

    Serenity

    6.51961HD

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

    Serenity
  • 2015
    And How Godmilow Expanded It

    And How Godmilow Expanded It

    And How Godmilow Expanded It

    02015HD

    Caspar Stracke replicates Jill Godmilow's replica of Harun Faroci's film "Inextinguishable Fire."

    And How Godmilow Expanded It
  • 1966
    Pearls of the Deep

    Pearls of the Deep

    Pearls of the Deep

    61966HD

    A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s...

    Pearls of the Deep
  • 1924
    Ballet Mécanique

    Ballet Mécanique

    Ballet Mécanique

    6.51924HD

    A pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. This is a world in motion, dominated by mechanical and repetitive images, with a...

    Ballet Mécanique
  • 2023
    Irish Catholic

    Irish Catholic

    Irish Catholic

    02023HD

    Meet Shavon O'Brien: Her family doesn't understand her, her church ignores her, even Jesus forgets about her. With only the spirit of Sinead...

    Irish Catholic
  • 2013
    Frank Zappa: A Token Of His Extreme

    Frank Zappa: A Token Of His Extreme

    Frank Zappa: A Token Of His Extreme

    6.12013HD

    Frank Zappa: A Token of his Extreme is the 1974 television special recorded at Kcet in Hollywood that was produced by Zappa and aired only in France...

    Frank Zappa: A Token Of His Extreme
  • 2012
    The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

    The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

    The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

    7.0672012HD

    An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing...

    The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
  • 2002
    Cremaster 3

    Cremaster 3

    Cremaster 3

    6.62002HD

    CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner,...

    Cremaster 3
  • 1965
    Time Piece

    Time Piece

    Time Piece

    7.31965HD

    Dislocation in time, time signatures, time as a philosophical concept, and slavery to time are some of the themes touched upon in this 9-minute...

    Time Piece
  • 1944
    Witch's Cradle

    Witch's Cradle

    Witch's Cradle

    6.5951944HD

    The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost spiderweb-like pattern over the hands of several...

    Witch's Cradle
  • 1964
    Bartók

    Bartók

    Bartók

    61964HD

    A portrait of the life and work of the great Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, exploring both his music and his passionate interest in...

    Bartók
  • 1927
    Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

    Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

    Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

    7.5121927HD

    A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions...

    Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
  • 2005
    The World Is Not a Landscape

    The World Is Not a Landscape

    The World Is Not a Landscape

    02005HD

    A quasi-sequel to Michel Houellebecq's novel The Possibility of an Island, Masbedo's short presents a post-apocalyptic landscape overseen by a...

    The World Is Not a Landscape
  • 2021
    Hauntology of the Retrodromomania

    Hauntology of the Retrodromomania

    Hauntology of the Retrodromomania

    102021HD

    Hauntology of the Retrodromomania is an essayistic motion picture, a locomotory legwork, a deambulatory non-rural land survey, a casual journeying in...

    Hauntology of the Retrodromomania
  • 2020
    Light From the Tower

    Light From the Tower

    Light From the Tower

    5.42020HD

    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....

    Light From the Tower