Avant Garde Movies

A Landscape documentary about the silent voids the living inhabit after everyone they love has gone.

Concerned with processes of assembly, CHOIR brings together disparate bodies of material and archival technologies into dissonant concert. It is a...

Modified flashlights and stripped down video projectors explore the visual complexities of the ordinary world: a tunnel, a clump of grass, a...

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

Water for Maya is a hand-painted work which came into being during a film interview with Martina Kudlacek about Maya Deren. There was a sudden...

A young adult's first-hand account of "accidentally becoming human again" after, and with, trauma induced depression. Lo-fi, vulnerable, and uniquely...

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...

The most beautiful planet deconstructed, played with, and put back together again.

This hand-painted step-printed film begins in a field of white light slightly bespeckled with ephemeral glazes of flecks of silver which gradually...

"In my film I suggest that there is no greater mystery than that of the protagonists. War and Love are simply equated for what they are; the...

Drawing together footage, photographs and texts from archival sources as well as the artist’s personal collection of materials, Yto...

Three people become connected through mysterious circumstances involving electronic devices which spontaneously appeared in their world.

A faceless protagonist witnesses the alienation of gentrification as his home is overtaken by development. the forces behind it are demanding him to...

A woman rocks a cradle; a man comes to land from the sea, but leaves to view it from a distance.

The debut short film from Edward Pettitt, that blends surrealist imagery with the sounds from The Residents.

The life of painter, dancer and poet Mark Turbyfill, seen in his 70th year, is evoked through Markopoulos’ unique form of cinematic portraiture.

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

This film is entirely hand-painted and is composed of such an evolution of variably colored shapes that their inter-action with each other should...

This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.

An 1962 Avant-Garde Comedy by George Kuchar.