Movies: Avant garde

A day at the carnival — sensational tent shows where miracles can be seen for the price of admission, boisterous noise of crowds and barkers, shrill and gaudy circus music, the violence of the street ten-fold. This is the substance of Everything Turn...

This is a non-narrative film, comprised of shots that "portray a certain young man in the terms of the things that he likes", such as the flow of the tide on a seashore, the motion of finely-tuned machinery, and sunlight shining through the fronds o...

Poetic and romantic amateur footage of a young couple in a garden, as well as their travels — several spliced films with different plots were stored on one reel. The film includes the author's audio commentary....

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...

A man stumbles upon a saxophone....

Sleeping and dreaming under the sun...

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

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

A 3 minute Shortfilm playing with the expressionistic themes of the German Poem “D-Zug” by Gottfried Benn....

A man wanders an oceanic dreamscape in search of a woman from his past....

An experimental work that explores sound and vision as an emotional response system....

Sightseeing Stockholm offbeat through the lens of Jonas Mekas....

A twisted and macabre film by Mróz-Raynoch, which explores an exhibition where the guests are as grotesque as the exhibits (stylistically akin to Gerald Scarfe’s horrifically distorted caricatures)....

Short movie from the German band "Das Ich". "Kaleidoskop" was filmed by Kevin Gross....

This film concentrated the crystal energy of earth nature, expended the trace and texture of mote. It try to use powerful flicker image to tune up the electro magnetic field in human brain, activate the imagination of receivers, and pass on the infor...

An early video curio pitched between performance art and George Méliès’ trick films, Drawers sees Colab artist Andrea Callard training her Sony Portapak on a rigged dresser for some endearingly primitive magic. - Max Goldberg...

A side table and a chest of drawers (played by actors in ingenious soft-sculpture costumes) indulge in a bit of passive-aggressive furniture moving. Do you know what your household decor is up to when you’re not looking? Another characteristically ec...

Short experimental 16mm film....

Luis Bunuel, the father of cinematic Surrealism, made his film debut with 'Un Chien Andalou' in 1929 working closely with Salvador Dali. Considered one of the finest and controversial filmmakers with, 'L’Age d’Or' (1930), attacking the church and the...