Avant Garde Movies

An early impressionist short featuring a woman who dreams of, and escapes into, an autumn forest.

A monkey paces inside a cage: visually, the short film confines itself to this stark simplicity, yet its message resonates deeply. It draws on...

After surviving a tragic car accident, a man with a learner's licence and a dead phone must find his way home while battling the grief of losing his...

Face going out of focus by layering sheets of plastic between camera and subject.

Black people, red dwarfs, idols on bronze steeds, shadow of geniuses and heroes. This is not story about Hades from an ancient history textbook. This...

Short experimental film.

Ivan Ladislav hides a true chamber of wonders behind the clear, mathematically abstract structure of his films and videos, meticulously compiled...

Three friends meet in a central cheerful pastime. After strolling along the boulevards, they are in nature. The dark side of the forest reveals the...

A lone man walking across the video screen is the starting point for this dynamic formal exercise. This image and its accompanying sound are...

A docudrama about art and creativity; based on modern art gallery in Tehran and its founder Jazeh Tabatabai.

Every winter, a small town in Castilla-La Mancha called Luzón transforms into a little hell. Its inhabitants, dressed as devils, venture into...

3-D is a hand-painted experimental short film by Riley Hogan. Acrylic paint, ink and scratching were used to animate on clear Super 8mm film leader.

A symbolic rape by the Devil and a renewal of self worth.

Paik produced this exuberant, high-speed collage as a commission for the National Fine Arts Committee of the 1980 Olympic Winter Games. In a...

A day at the carnival — sensational tent shows where miracles can be seen for the price of admission, boisterous noise of crowds and barkers,...

A study of ruins of a fortified castle placed in the village of Seyssuel during two days of shooting and understanding of the moving light

An experimental film comprised of Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING played forwards and backwards at the same time on the same screen, creating bizarre...

The history and art of ikebana, a centuries old Japanese art of flower arrangement and a look inside the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, where the...

"as work in progress: treasures found in the streams around me."

The second part: Brakhage’s layering of images spends less time with images of war, and begins filtering in scenes of Vienna and his home in...