Avant Garde Movies

The film is an allegory in which the attempt is made to show the inner process of movement of the composer's soul at the time of the birth of music.

An experimental film shot with the purpose of trying to create a hostile alien environment using only shots of nature, color correction, and sound...

Markopoulos called Lysis “a study in stream-of-consciousness poetry of a lost, wandering, homosexual soul” and felt that the film...

Features four distinct, bizarre, existential tales about people whose lives are in transition, who are each asking questions about themselves, their...

This audio-visual tone poem uses the language of filmmaking to offer a first-hand evocation of the turbulent psychological effects one can experience...

Pussy Trash is an ex dancer now invalid that lives with "Grandpa" in their poor home. After finding a video of his youth he will try to find a way to...

Short avant garde film. Views of rippling water.

When one lets their mind wander too long into too far places , they might slip into the path of universal mind. Endless obscure knowledges can be...

The long flights of spacecraft have been in the past, as well as the chronicle of accomplishments. Snatches of memory bring to us the fragments of...

The faces of a 5:00 PM crowd descending via the Pan Am building escalators in one continuous shot. In old-fashioned black and white, these faces...

(1970) color; 5 min

A fascinating case of narrative deconstruction, THE SUICIDE SQUEEZE is a '40s style whodunit pressed through the wringer of an optical printer.

A high school student tries to accustom himself to an unusual phobia, destroying everyone in his path. A nerd tries to eradicate the phobia entirely.

Poet and artist Vito Acconci points his finger towards the camera and his own reflection in an offscreen video monitor.

"Images and sounds culled from the first few months with my daughter, sometimes resembling that of a family group chat, where pictures and videos are...

Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of...

This film tell us about intricate attitudes in male collectives on navy. The film bore in poetical form with respect for differently minded heroes.

Short film by Mary Ellen Bute

A mesmerizing trip through the psychedelic vastness of space.

Spanning an entire day from morning to night, this film interpolates the difference between dreaming and dreams.