Avant Garde Movies

A bunch of spectators trapped in a cinema theatre.

This, the third of the Sexual Meditation Series, might also be seen as a triangular portrait of Julia and P. Adams Sitney and Jane Brakhage.

In 1933, at age 33, Harry Alan Potamkin died of complications related to starvation, at a time when he was one of the world's most respected film...

Avant-garde homage to pre-revolution Russian silent movies, and to the poet Aleksandr Blok.

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

This film explores freedom of speech in the United States of America

Spring comes every year and brings us hope for recovery and development. But time is inexorable and fleeting. Not for everyone will come next spring...

An abstract, minimalistic showpiece of late structuralist film made up of 360-degree pans across a children’s playground – and to one of...

A young man desperately seeks out the fleeting image of a female companion, and though he never quite catches her, he discovers much more through the...

After the sunset, a man wonders between the edges of the highways gathering edible roadkill animals.

In 1961 Lithuanian American artist and impresario George Maciunas established the avant-garde art movement Fluxus. George details the rise of Fluxus...

Preferring to shower with clothes on, they wait patiently for an evening with Winder, a living movie camera. Made as an exercise activity for...

A young man finds himself unexpectedly taking an audiovisual odyssey into a world of surreality, slowly recounting his memories, revealing the puzzle...

Part of the series of Travel Songs by Jonas Mekas.

The film begins with a series of horizontally running ocean tide waves, sometimes with mountains in the background, hand-painted patterns, sometimes...

The Documentary centers around Zappa at home, and on Tour. The amazing thing is that Zappa allowed a guy with a camera to film the band at the...

An old man (artist and landscape architect Bevis Bawa) contemplates the Garden of Eden.

The Weavers of Nishijin captures the process of traditional textile manufacture in Nishijin.

a haiku films, a poem by Nha Thuyen

Animation using cutout animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on...