Avant Garde Movies

Suppressed memories reach a boiling point. An animated tale of longing. “The Experimental section saw Non Films’ Dull Hope scoop the...

Shot in long, contemplative takes, Madrona Marsh lingers on the last remaining vernal freshwater wetland in Los Angeles’s South Bay. Amid...

A sort of non-narrative itinerary between Lyon, Vienne and Valence-Ville that goes exploring the relationships between the interactions and the light...

A young man named Phillip finds himself in a purgatory reality that's littered with clues of his past life. From the discovery of his own corpse to...

Impressionism and expression of a view, Mavy uses fragments of the ocean landscapes of Alice Guy's studies through fluctuations of bright nuances and...

This live recording was culled from seven September 1992 concerts given in Vienna, Berlin, and Frankfurt by the Ensemble Modern, a Frankfurt-based...

Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959, The Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of...

The film is based on a puppet musical which fuses the fantastical and historical, transforming a process of historical research into a...

An experimental film documenting a river leading up to a waterfall, depicting both its natural beauty and its inherent danger.

The wind carries an aspiring healer into a chaotic, virulent parallel world. Paralyzed by a familiar universe that is gradually becoming distorted,...

Waves crashing against the rocks, a journey to the beaches of El Tabo (Chile).

Experimental short film about various Christmas objects and lights.

The humble line has a life of its own. As it travels from one point to the next it can take whatever route it fancies. With plenty of ups and downs,...

“Before ‘Virgin’, I never put much stock in the idea of a ‘cursed’ production. Take a film like ‘Incubus’....

A dreamy, impressionistic 16mm film of light on water, comprised mostly of sepia tones.

A strange orchestra of bodies, light, reflections and shadows throught shots of brief action and surprising appearances of humans and animals. A...

By light, or lack thereof, and sound, or lack thereof, I’ve tried to disassociate and then return to find something strange in the most...

Weaving blistering performance footage from Europe, Japan, and the U.S. with a sublimely restrained, intimate glimpse into a world-renowned jazz...

When a group of students gathers at their school, mathematical equations begin to invade their reality.

Moving through its five parts, the work describes a cycle of birth through to death, depicting both an eternal, universal Mary, and an earthly Mary...