Movies: Avant garde

The documentary examines Frank Zappa and his music through archive footage, including unique video excerpts from Austrian television archives featuring interviews with Zappa and backstage scenes from the 1970s and 1980s. The entire film is divided in...

2012: Time For Change is a documentary feature that presents ways to transform our unsustainable society into a regenerative planetary culture. This can be achieved through a personal and global change of consciousness and the systemic implementation...

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition....

Short avant garde film. Views of rippling water....

About the failure. Maybe as a strategy. About the feeling of searching but not finding, and not even knowing what you are looking for. The kitchen as the heart....

A Manhattan professor's (William Raymond, Larry Loonin) unseen artist wife mocks his pitiful existence....

a collection of different shots comprised a fictionalized, but highly detailed of the america's west. where civilization meets nature in an illusion of history....

An anthology of one-minute films created by 60 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was screened one time only on a purpose-built 20x12 meter public cinema screen in the Port of Tallinn, E...

The film begins with a series of horizontally running ocean tide waves, sometimes with mountains in the background, hand-painted patterns, sometimes step-printed hand-painting, abstractions composed of distorted (jammed) TV shapes in shades of blue w...

An experience of a camera swinging in different gestures facing the optical distortion of the Sun. The last appearance of the smudge....

Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filme...

Filmed on location in Harlem and in Monet’s historic gardens in Giverny, this multi-textured cinematic poem meditates on the bodily integrity and creative virtuosity of black women....

Based on Plato's dialogue Charmides....

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

Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die is a 2000 documentary about Frank Zappa....

Hans Richter, noted for his abstract shorts, has everyday objects rebelling against their daily routine....

Tracklisting: 1. Pound for a Brown 2. Baby Snakes 3. Deathless Horsie 4. Dancin' Fool 5. Easy Meat 6. Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me 7. Keep It Greasey 8. Why Does It Hurt When I Pee? 9. Sofa #2 10. Vinnie's Seal Call Fusion Music 11. ...

Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse....

Collective experimental film by Team 8mm TENGOKU....

A found footage examination of what happened at the lake today. Where were you? An exquisite corpse by Non Films. 8mm images randomly selected from found footage; poem written without images; music written without images or words. WINNER: BEST BRO...