Avant Garde Movies
- 1979
New Old
New Old6.21979HD
"Chronicles of the Present Times" - An experimental trilogy. New Old flows together footage from more than a decade of his wandering between scenes,...
- 1967
23rd Psalm Branch
23rd Psalm Branch8.21967HD
Made during the height of the Vietnam War, Stan Brakhage has said of this film that he was hoping to bring some clarity to the subject of war....
- 1969
The Virgin's Bed
The Virgin's Bed5.71969HD
30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. He has spent no time among men. He is trembling with cold. His...
- 1997
Totem Talk
Totem Talk01997HD
Traditional Northwestern Indigenous spiritual images combined with cutting-edge computer animation in this surreal short film about the power of...
- 1996
Assassination
Assassination01996HD
"Assassination" - Adaptation of Hermann Hesse's novel "Demian". A young man's detachment from and revolt against the superficial ideals of the world...
- 1985
Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera
Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera101985HD
The creative processes of avant-garde composer Philip Glass and progressive director/designer Robert Wilson are examined in this film. It documents...
- 2016
Zapped: Frank Zappa par Frank Zappa
Zapped: Frank Zappa par Frank Zappa9.52016HD
Documentary on Frank Zappa.
- 1997
The Cat of the Worm's Green Realm
The Cat of the Worm's Green Realm4.61997HD
Flares of color break into streams of light, leaves, wood grain and prism-etched vegetation. A moon lifts out of this dark weave to be replaced by...
- 1979
Maya
Maya01979HD
Hymn to nature, song to the cosmos, Mâyâ builds a world where the camera generates a new type of representation in which the depth of...
- 2017
PROTOTYPE
PROTOTYPE32017HD
As a major storm strikes Texas in 1900, a mysterious televisual device is built and tested. Blake Williams’ experimental 3D sci-fi film...
- 1987
The Dante Quartet
The Dante Quartet6.31987HD
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...
- 2018
Spring Masks
Spring Masks02018HD
Living in fragments, pieced together in varied ways, uncertainly, and yet... Inside there is a familiar chaos, awaiting a key...
- 2002
Cotton Candy
Cotton Candy02002HD
Gehr uses a mini-digital recorder to look back on the Machine Age in the form of San Francisco's soon-to-be-shuttered Musee Mecanique. For slightly...
- 1972
Sexual Meditation: Office Suite
Sexual Meditation: Office Suite4.71972HD
This film evolves from several years’ observation of the sexual energy which charges the world of business and the qualities of palatial...
- 2014
Rene Magritte: Man in the Hat
Rene Magritte: Man in the Hat42014HD
In this film, Will Young travels to Magritte's native Belgium to find out more about the man whose trademark was a bowler hat and whose apparently...
- 2008
The Tin Woodman's Home Movie #2: California Poppy Reserve, Antelope Valley
The Tin Woodman's Home Movie #2: California Poppy Reserve, Antelope Valley02008HD
A three-dimensional narrative enacted at the California Poppy Reserve. It’s part of Mike Plante's Lunchfilm series of commissioned shorts (made...
- 1999
Persian Series #5
Persian Series #55.81999HD
Dark blood red slow shifting tones (often embedded in dark) / (often shot-thru with parallel wave-like lines) composed of all previous shapes and...
- 2022
The death of the minotavr
The death of the minotavr02022HD
The death of the minotavr talks about the concept of the heroine's journey. Suffering, horror and exhaustion lead the protagonist to a process of...
- 1999
Persian Series #4
Persian Series #45.61999HD
Elaborate petal-like and multicolored flowers rising in white space until the whole field is as if crushed by floral designs in madly-swift mixtures...
- 2023
WINDER
WINDER02023HD
Preferring to shower with clothes on, they wait patiently for an evening with Winder, a living movie camera. Made as an exercise activity for...