Avant Garde Movies

Made during the height of the Vietnam War, Stan Brakhage has said of this film that he was hoping to bring some clarity to the subject of war....

A paean to light, a glittering bodice of a film that rapturously unfolds its subject with a shimmering luminosity.

One of Paik’s most overtly political and poignant statements, Guadalcanal Requiem is a performance/documentary collage that confronts history,...

A woman rocks a cradle; a man comes to land from the sea, but leaves to view it from a distance.

In 1952, Haanstra made Panta Rhei , another view of Holland through the eyes of a painter and filmmaker. Its poetic images of water, skies and clouds...

A particular day of a samurai

After encountering Lensface at the 2019 Unnamed Footage Festival, Filmmaker Travis Z. (Cabin Fever 2016, The Midnight Man) became obsessed with the...

Many white interruptive frames and absolutely straight-edged multi-colored lines amidst "clouds" of color, finally thickened into blobs with lengthy...

Dark blood red slow shifting tones (often embedded in dark) / (often shot-thru with parallel wave-like lines) composed of all previous shapes and...

"Ryuta is 5 years old. Even though he is my son, I sometimes wonder what this small person is to me. Even though I see his joys and sadnesses and...

First, I wanted to make a kind of reflexively impoverished Busby Berkeley extravaganza. Second, I was interested in juxtaposing two cultural...

A faceless protagonist witnesses the alienation of gentrification as his home is overtaken by development. the forces behind it are demanding him to...

The film is constructed from video material that the author shot in 1999 at the horseshoe factory in Karlovac (closed in 2005). It consists of 99...

A 3 minute Shortfilm playing with the expressionistic themes of the German Poem “D-Zug” by Gottfried Benn.

Thick weaves of multicolored lines and dull-colored blobs play off against each other.

Chopin "Nocturnes" accompany this study in black and white inspired by Huysman's decadent novel "À rebours".

"We Go Past Future" is an experimental paper collage film by Anna Malina. The film reimagines a series of Soviet films from 1919 to 1953, blending...

Spanning an entire day from morning to night, this film interpolates the difference between dreaming and dreams.

Number Two’ is an audio visual work which materializes the definite possibilities of sight and the existence of light in space with the drama...

The "bleared eyes of blue glass" in the title of this experimental short expand on a verbal image from Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves, considered...