Avant Garde Movies

A short film where circus performers entertain children.

A short experimental film dedicated to Polish artist Wacław Szpakowski (1883–1973).

With some amount of irony, filmmaker Joe Biglin strings together 7 shorts about himself and things that trigger his OCD.

Surrendering the mind to the hypnotic dance of fire, a candle's glimmer reveals dreamlike memories, illustrated by flickering fragments of...

Television was invented as a result of scientific and technical research. Its power as a medium of news and entertainment altered all preceding media...

Prelude 14 begins in deep brilliant red which darkens into deeper reds and lavender shapes, disrupted by a variety of colors settling into browns and...

Jeff Wall is one of the most important and influential photographers working today. His work played a key role in establishing photography as a...

Psyche, made while a student at USC, shows Markopoulos’ developing style and his sensuous use of colour and composition. Shot in the Hollywood...

A depiction of a girl’s uneasy state of mind as it wavers between life and death.

Renowned artist Krzysztof Wodiczko creates powerful responses to the inequities and horrors of war. This in-depth investigation into the artist...

A symbolic rape by the Devil and a renewal of self worth.

I spent a day inside a small abandoned military fort by the sea. With the tide went up and down, I appeared and disappeared into the water.

An abstract experimental short film from Jordan Belson.

A psychedelic, avant-garde collage film designed to accompany PRPL PPL's experimental album of the same name.

Filmed in 2003 while staying in a Brooklyn Heights apartment, the work centers on a small Greek statue revealed in shifting morning and afternoon...

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

An experimental non-linear horror film portraying several surreal scenes of grotesque and violent acts

"as work in progress: treasures found in the streams around me."

Arriving in the US with a background in abstract art, opera, and film—including work with German director Werner Schroeter—Vogl began...