Avant Garde Movies

Our Lady of the Sphere uses cut-out animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are...

“The structure of human vision is the visual knowledge of the world. Individuals do not visually understand the world through the eyes, but...

Structured in nine tableaux each a study of a simple action or situation involving a lone, naked figure, the blind Eros, searching for fulfilment,...

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

Subtitled “Eros in Psyche” and set to a composition by Tomaso Albinoni, Lawrence Jordan’s rapturous live action short contemplates...

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

After surviving a tragic car accident, a man with a learner's licence and a dead phone must find his way home while battling the grief of losing his...

"A sequence shot explores from attic to celler a large residence that, for the time being, is emptied out of its inhabitants. Their habits are...

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

A poetic journey from the darkness of dawn into the brightness of the midday sun in the American South. Filmed over the course of six months on one...

An abstract work featuring three dancers, the performers interact with large screens as well as each other. Included in Shirley Clarke’s Four...

Various forms of everyday motion in and around a city are shown at rapid speed.

A lone man walking across the video screen is the starting point for this dynamic formal exercise. This image and its accompanying sound are...

Here's the most detailed, informative, fascinating Zappa & the Mothers doc yet! Their restless experimentation and agitated social satire come into...

History as immersion and dispersion in the fragments of the past, a visionary journey accompanied by the voice of Patty Pravo. Presented at the...

Based on Plato's dialogue Charmides.

A baby, John, who was abandoned in the church with a horse-headed koto on his side. His grandfather was once a Morin Khuur player and died in the...

This film is a succession of visual and aural "notes" generated by the patterns in animals' hides, which are arranged and re-edited into a complex...

Though best known for his collage films, Lawrence Jordan here makes exquisite study of the different aspects of light lilting through the early...

Judith Wardwell’s satirical take on America’s sanitation obsession and sexually repressive Puritanism