Avant Garde Movies

Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet, an essayist, a philosopher, and a leader of...

While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother...

Video project dubbed "an Opera without Words" made by the experimental, avant-garde band Tuxedomoon.

A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. - Harvard Film Archive

ingerence: Unwanted involvement, interruption, or meddling in the internal affairs of another person, entity, or sovereign nation.

A railway crossing guard and his wife live in a routine of total isolation and uneventfulness.

A dark, stream of consciousness fever dream, gathering all that is decrepit in this world, and reflecting it all back to those who have reduced the...

Women, landscapes and manifestations of color meet experimentally with the possibilities of the artisanal copying technique on 16mm.

An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing...

The constant movement of the wheels, threads, sprockets, feet and hands suggests restlessness, and this is paralleled by the soundtrack. The unknown...

Scientists and philosophers work to understand animal vision in this multi textured rumination exploring our relationship to the nonhuman world.

"A film featuring my work as shown in my 1969 diploma exhibit at Chelsea College of Art. It explores my Mummy Case, then the series of works that are...

An afternoon of training for Olympic diver Greg Louganis transforms into a visual poem about freedom, the flight of the spirit, and the astonishing...

The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal founders of Surrealism, Max Ernst explores the...

Rock musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

A collaboration between Apichatpong and Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto from his album “async”. The people falling asleep in this film...

Short experimental 16mm film.

Early short by Peter Gidal.

A portrait of Eric de Kuyper.

Living in fragments, pieced together in varied ways, uncertainly, and yet... Inside there is a familiar chaos, awaiting a key...