Avant Garde Movies

"[Hutton’s] latest urban film, New York Portrait, Chapter III, takes on a unique tone in relation to Hutton’s ongoing exploration of...

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 Sunday walk in a forest turns into a poetic journey on perception.

"My name, melancholia".

A visual representation, in four parts, of one man's internalization of "The Divine Comedy." Hell is a series of multicolored brush strokes against a...

Two men sit in a car, watching the world through the windshield. One is silent, the other is slowly drinking himself to death. External reality...

Chapter Two represents a continuation of daily observations from the environment of Manhattan compiled over a period from 1980-1981. This is the...

An archival film recovered by the Kydean Film Institute 10 years after the bombing of Renegraad.

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

We are first presented a cobweb castle, filled with the haunting doubts of the young protagonist. Spirits appear on the screen and are heard on the...

This film is a succession of visual and aural "notes" generated by the patterns in animals' hides, which are arranged and re-edited into a complex...

Surreal film melding documentary footage of Chicago and its residents, featuring fast paced montage sequences set against a rollicking 1960s musical...

Brakhage begins here with Carlsbad Caverns as a stand-in for Plato's Cave and then responds to the philosopher's notion of inaccessible ideal forms...

The corner of a street is matched and mixed with the chant of a bird recorded on that same street. A symbiotic relationship is triggered: the rapid...

An avant-garde "experimental anthropological poem" from France.

In the stillness of night, a lone man is trapped in a state of sleep paralysis. As darkness closes in, he must confront the ghosts of his past.

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...

The Black Album places scrutiny on the notion of "Black Excellence" in a revisionist take.

This is a surrealistic documentary with a strong format which is based on the point of view of author. Tan can't fall in sleep in the night, is that...

A short film spelling Tokyo in hiragana.