Avant Garde Movies

Making Space is a film about trying to find oneself in the constant flow of change and renewal, navigating through the anxiety that comes with not...

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

Various forms of everyday motion in and around a city are shown at rapid speed.

In the dining room of the abandoned house a white, faded entity feeds on her pieces. Memories keep her here and time transforms her into something...

A bunch of spectators trapped in a cinema theatre.

Influenced by abstract expressionism, a series of black and white high-contrast positive episodes characterized by intense bursts of light and deep...

The script is composed of three stories set in three different time periods and three different locations. One story takes place during an ascent of...

POSTCARD FROM SAN MIGUEL is perhaps the most mystical of all the films from Lawrence Jordan's "Odyssey" triptych. On the surface, it is merely a...

An experimental short film about wind and sunlight sweeping across tree leaves.

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

An essay on the brutality of beauty and innocence in a hostile world.

Renowned artist Krzysztof Wodiczko creates powerful responses to the inequities and horrors of war. This in-depth investigation into the artist...

Arriving in the US with a background in abstract art, opera, and film—including work with German director Werner Schroeter—Vogl began...

“The structure of human vision is the visual knowledge of the world. Individuals do not visually understand the world through the eyes, but...

To summon the third eye awakening, we should not agitate the surface of the mind and physical eye, but soothe and provoke the third eye to awaken. In...

A silent succession of black-and-white photographs of the city of Montreal.

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

Surrendering the mind to the hypnotic dance of fire, a candle's glimmer reveals dreamlike memories, illustrated by flickering fragments of...

One of Paik’s most overtly political and poignant statements, Guadalcanal Requiem is a performance/documentary collage that confronts history,...

A poetic exploration of the presence and absence of a mother.