Avant Garde Movies

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

PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn; the second is about Sonic Youth at the height of...

Modified flashlights and stripped down video projectors explore the visual complexities of the ordinary world: a tunnel, a clump of grass, a...

A glimpse over the Diguillín River through the mechanical eye of an old digital camera. Light’s trail presents itself fortuitously over...

A quasi-sequel to Michel Houellebecq's novel The Possibility of an Island, Masbedo's short presents a post-apocalyptic landscape overseen by a...

A bunch of spectators trapped in a cinema theatre.

"My name, melancholia".

Experimental short film of colors and lights

Short documentary directed by Jean Vigo about the French swimmer Jean Taris. The film is notable for the many innovative techniques that Vigo uses,...

Elaborate petal-like and multicolored flowers rising in white space until the whole field is as if crushed by floral designs in madly-swift mixtures...

Images of the uniforms as the Ohio guard is interviewed off-camera.

Found film sequences brought together in the paranoia of the cold war and Vietnam.

One film projected two times with a difference of a couple of seconds.

A day at the carnival — sensational tent shows where miracles can be seen for the price of admission, boisterous noise of crowds and barkers,...

A cinematic meeting point between nature and technology, Doug Aitken’s unearthly short is enfolded in evocative hymns whose voices are eerily...

In this avant-garde classic, protagonist Louise deals with a change in her lifestyle in which she must learn to negotiate domestic life and...

A couple, Vlad and Sophy, navigate their relationship as well as their own struggles with mental health in the context of a highly connected,...

shot in melbourne, may 2024

An afternoon of training for Olympic diver Greg Louganis transforms into a visual poem about freedom, the flight of the spirit, and the astonishing...

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