Avant Garde Movies

A city in permanent darkness becomes the stage for four actresses rehearsing a play. As performance and reality converge, a mysterious presence...

This four-volume boxset released by Image Forum compiles the breadth of Shuji Terayama's experimental short film work into an extensive DVD...

A surreal musical comedy set in a world where the avant-garde and the mainstream are reversed.

Early short by Peter Gidal.

The long flights of spacecraft have been in the past, as well as the chronicle of accomplishments. Snatches of memory bring to us the fragments of...

Film ist. 1-6 is an avant-garde collage from Gustav Deutsch, using found footage from various scientific films to explore the properties, impact and...

This apocalyptic linguistic comedy meditates on the relationship between language, meaning and social decay and is scripted from "double-speak"...

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...

A reworking of the myth of Hippolytus, in which a chaste youth rejects the incestuous advances of his mother and is saved from death by a caring...

The film begins with a series of horizontally running ocean tide waves, sometimes with mountains in the background, hand-painted patterns, sometimes...

The second part: Brakhage’s layering of images spends less time with images of war, and begins filtering in scenes of Vienna and his home in...

Between a experimental journey in the subconscious, a woman go through her introspective layers and bettle one of her powerfuls and misterious...

Filmed during a visit to Jerome Hill in Provence, Jonas Mekas sets his Bolex to capture a single day overlooking the port of Cassis. Shot frame by...

A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. - Harvard Film Archive

In this short slice of transgressive punk cinema, a woman achieves accidental revenge on her boyfriend after he cruelly kills and eats the fish-stick...

An obsessive Vine star goes down a road of surreal imagery, as his obsession with the application develops into murder.

While playing his trombone one Sunday, the enthusiastic Zero sees Beatrix and falls in love. He returns the next week to express his feelings, and...

A mesmerizing trip through the psychedelic vastness of space.

In Madonna, Tanaami employs his signature collage-style animation, combining pop art influences, retro aesthetics, and surrealistic motifs. The film...

A hypnotic and slow-burning journey through the austere landscapes of the island of South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsula. Shot on black and...