Avant Garde Movies

In Razor Blades, Paul SHARITS consciously challenges our eyes, ears and minds to withstand a barrage of high powered and often contradictory stimuli....

Short film by Mary Ellen Bute

“It’s not my memory of it” is a documentary about secrecy, memory, and documents. A former CIA source recounts his disappearance...

A man grapples with his anxiety, attempting to calm him self in the shadow of his idols. As the ideal and the real collide.

Die Schachtel (The Box), 1968. 35mm film transfer to videotape, black-and-white, sound; 29 minutes.

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A three-dimensional narrative enacted at the California Poppy Reserve. It’s part of Mike Plante's Lunchfilm series of commissioned shorts (made...

“Geometric animation made entirely by sculptural methods: cutting, punching, welding colored leader. HETERODYNE is related to some of my other...

An early film by British experimental filmmaker Nick Collins. It combines bulbous, rapid-motion abstractions of greenery with a portrait of a cat,...

A Week in the Hole chronicles a factory employee’s adjusting to the materials, time, space and personnel during his first day of work.

Around the sleeping bodies, some presences occupy the architecture and move around the space in obscure activities: nothing of their actions is...

Thanks to his myriad film roles, Lon Chaney is known as “the man of a thousand faces,” and you could say that the early horror era never...

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...

A film-parable about the eternal movement of mankind from the Stone Age to self-destruction.

The most beautiful planet deconstructed, played with, and put back together again.

“My attempt at a filmic interpretation of Haraguchi Noriyuki’s ‘Inclined Horizon,’ a three-dimensional physical work featured...

A wormhole might connect extremely long distances.

During WWII, the Japanese army developed experimental balloons able to cross the Pacific Ocean and reach the West Coast of North America in 3-6 days....