Avant Garde Movies
- 1977
Veil of Years
Veil of Years01977HD
Slow disintegration and aging of artists head, revealing underlying bone structure. Created using old picture-phone technology. New music added in...
- 1965
Melting
Melting51965HD
Melting shows the natural monostructural disintegration of a strawberry sundae, its passage from rigidity to softness, from edibility to waste. The...
- 1971
Rabbit's Moon
Rabbit's Moon6.21971HD
A Japanese fairy tale meets commedia dell'Arte. All in white, the naïf Pierrot lies in a wood. Doo-wop music plays as he rises, stares about,...
- 2020
Casual Workers
Casual Workers02020HD
An abstract perspective into two young South African workers in the heart of Johannesburg's industrial sector during Covid-19
- 2012
Theodore of the Absurd
Theodore of the Absurd02012HD
A surreal musical comedy set in a world where the avant-garde and the mainstream are reversed.
- 1923
Return to Reason
Return to Reason6.31923HD
Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, the light-striped torso of Kiki of Montparnasse (Alice Prin), a gyrating...
- 1928
The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra
The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra6.51928HD
This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by...
- 1987
The Harms Case
The Harms Case51987HD
Based upon the life and writing of literary visionary Danil Harms, a Russian avant-garde poet of the 1920s who was persecuted and ultimately silenced...
- 2023
The Stolen Moon
The Stolen Moon52023HD
A short, silent, experimental film created by avant-garde created by Ukranian-born artist, Anna Malina.
- 2021
Classic Albums: Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out!
Classic Albums: Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out!8.22021HD
This programme tells the story behind the conception, recording and release of this groundbreaking album. By use of interviews, musical...
- 2007
Mettle
Mettle02007HD
An experimental film shot with the purpose of trying to create a hostile alien environment using only shots of nature, color correction, and sound...
- 1972
Mis-Takes
Mis-Takes31972HD
A colorful collage, with a subtle ecology theme, made largely from footage from trial runs of programs used for many of the other films.
- 1971
Fata Morgana
Fata Morgana6.61971HD
Shot under extreme conditions and inspired by Mayan creation theory, the film contemplates the illusion of reality and the possibility of capturing...
- 1964
Max Ernst: Journey into the Subconscious
Max Ernst: Journey into the Subconscious51964HD
The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal founders of Surrealism, Max Ernst explores the...
- 2014
Second Sighted
Second Sighted02014HD
Obscure signs portend a looming, indecipherable slump. An oracular decoding of the landscape.
- 1970
The Beyond (Pilot)
The Beyond (Pilot)01970HD
In the small town of Ethham, strange goings on have been occurring and the only people who know are the young adolescents of the town. Will they...
- 1965
Vinyl
Vinyl4.51965HD
Andy Warhol’s screen adaptation of Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange”.
- 1988
Tales from the Gimli Hospital
Tales from the Gimli Hospital6.21988HD
While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother...
- 2017
Vortex
Vortex62017HD
A corridor of an apartment is transformed into a claustrophobic and vertiginous vortex that swallows and imprisons you in an infinite fall through a...
- 2022
The Beginner's Guide to Spinning in Loops
The Beginner's Guide to Spinning in Loops02022HD
From June 2021 to June 2022, Justin "Jastun" Bland records whatever that is in front of him. He presents an abstract montage of collected videos...