Avant Garde Movies

  • 1933
    Burlesque

    Burlesque

    Burlesque

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    In Burlesque, the young journalist and film critic Kucera concocted a playful mixture of Surrealist trick shots and newsreel material to express his...

    Burlesque
  • 1970
    Bedfellows for a Century

    Bedfellows for a Century

    Bedfellows for a Century

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    Three lonely young people, adrift in an abandoned and isolated house, search for ways to satisfy their desires but remain uncertain of what they...

    Bedfellows for a Century
  • 2026
    The Great City

    The Great City

    The Great City

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    "Inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's seminal work 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra', THE GREAT CITY is a profound cinematic inquiry into the ontology of truth...

    The Great City
  • 1995
    Unstable Materials

    Unstable Materials

    Unstable Materials

    61995HD

    This film is made by some beautiful and unique alchemical transformations of the film material itself. It is a visual expedition into the world of...

    Unstable Materials
  • 2020
    there is a willow grows aslant a brook,

    there is a willow grows aslant a brook,

    there is a willow grows aslant a brook,

    02020HD

    "My name, melancholia".

    there is a willow grows aslant a brook,
  • 2017
    Baa Baa Land

    Baa Baa Land

    Baa Baa Land

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    An eight-hour contemplative epic, entirely starring sheep.

    Baa Baa Land
  • 2025
    Digital Smoke

    Digital Smoke

    Digital Smoke

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    Digital Smoke is an experimental meditation on light, memory, and distortion. Shot at twilight in Minneapolis’s Loring Park, the film captures...

    Digital Smoke
  • 2018
    Snake in Home

    Snake in Home

    Snake in Home

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    The C-list TV actor Jonnie Zhang decides to change career as an estate agent. While preparing for the interview, he hires a cleaner to tidy up his...

    Snake in Home
  • 2012
    REW

    REW

    REW

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    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....

    REW
  • 2024
    Cygnus OB2#12

    Cygnus OB2#12

    Cygnus OB2#12

    02024HD

    Experimental short film of colors and lights

    Cygnus OB2#12
  • 2007
    Hottent Apron: A Sketch

    Hottent Apron: A Sketch

    Hottent Apron: A Sketch

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    A young woman works as a waitress in a diner. Her relationship with her boyfriend is unfulfilling and to further complicate things she is obsessed...

    Hottent Apron: A Sketch
  • 2003
    Play Dead: Real Time

    Play Dead: Real Time

    Play Dead: Real Time

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    An avant-garde film presented as part of an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. From MoMA's catalog: "For the monumental installation Play Dead;...

    Play Dead: Real Time
  • 1965
    15 Song Traits

    15 Song Traits

    15 Song Traits

    8.51965HD

    A series of individual portraits of friends and family, all interrelated in what might be called a branch growing directly from the trunk of SONGS 1...

    15 Song Traits
  • 1967
    The Song of Italy

    The Song of Italy

    The Song of Italy

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    Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s travels through Italy in 1967, this short captures scenes from the country’s cities and countryside. The...

    The Song of Italy
  • 2024
    The Saxophone

    The Saxophone

    The Saxophone

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    A man stumbles upon a saxophone.

    The Saxophone
  • 1962
    Regardez moi cela suffit

    Regardez moi cela suffit

    Regardez moi cela suffit

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    Sitting on a promenade in nice with a sign: Watch me, that’s all.

    Regardez moi cela suffit
  • 2018
    Life in the Shadows

    Life in the Shadows

    Life in the Shadows

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    Active elements at play, in toil, and in retreat, seeking peace.

    Life in the Shadows
  • 1971
    Sexual Meditation: Room with View

    Sexual Meditation: Room with View

    Sexual Meditation: Room with View

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    Directly in the tradition of SEXUAL MEDITATION #1: Motel, this "sequel" does explore further possibilities of nudes in a room. - Canyon Cinema

    Sexual Meditation: Room with View
  • 2014
    The Occidental Hotel

    The Occidental Hotel

    The Occidental Hotel

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    “The Occidental Hotel is a “city” film—I was inspired to emulate the Surrealists’ sense of wandering, of flaneury, of...

    The Occidental Hotel
  • 2020
    The Resounding Life of a Maguey

    The Resounding Life of a Maguey

    The Resounding Life of a Maguey

    02020HD

    A short film directed by the Argentine filmmaker Ernesto Baca

    The Resounding Life of a Maguey