Avant Garde Movies

One of the most iconic sequences in the history of Hollywood cinema (from Alfred Hitchcock’s NORTH BY NORTHWEST) is deconstructed and...

OPEN FIELD is in the mind, of course, and exists as a weave of trees, grasses, waters, and bodies poised and fleeting at childhood's end. The scene...

An experimental media installation of three windows exploring fragments of liminality. Three unique re-constructions of experiential instances...

Short film made with underexposed video footage.

A portrait of the British artists, two living sculptures, filmed in Paris on the occasion of their exhibition at the Sonnabend Gallery.

In 1963 and 1964, Andy Warhol captured dancer-choreographers Lucinda Childs, Yvonne Rainer, and Freddy Herko, and Village Voice dance critic Jill...

A whirlwind of improvisation combines the images of animator Pierre Hébert with the avant-garde sound of techno whiz Bob Ostertag in this...

This portrait of the filmmaker's apartment, painted in the color of the title, was made a few months before his departure from New York. It...

A young man goes through his everyday routine until he realizes that he is completely alone.

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...

A short, silent, experimental film created by avant-garde created by Ukranian-born artist, Anna Malina.

Rummaging for Pasts is an experimental juxtaposition of two cinematic documents: the video diary of an international archaeological excavation and a...

(Always) Next to Me is a 16mm film that pairs abstract sequences of plants developed directly on the film emulsion with intertitles briefly...

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;...

A documentary of an avant-garde theatre performance, presents an orgiastic rite of sex, degradation, and bloody sacrifice, performed by Zero-Jigen.

This film evolves from several years’ observation of the sexual energy which charges the world of business and the qualities of palatial...

An archival film recovered by the Kydean Film Institute 10 years after the bombing of Renegraad.

Animation, also of a new order in the recent series of short works. Mostly on black space, the figures in blue perform a very compact and jewel-like...

Made in 1969. 1min. 16mm. Black and White