Avant Garde Movies

  • 2023
    Third Shift Coming Home

    Third Shift Coming Home

    Third Shift Coming Home

    02023HD

    This audio-visual tone poem uses the language of filmmaking to offer a first-hand evocation of the turbulent psychological effects one can experience...

    Third Shift Coming Home
  • 2021
    Water from The Tremulous Stream

    Water from The Tremulous Stream

    Water from The Tremulous Stream

    02021HD

    A glimpse over the Diguillín River through the mechanical eye of an old digital camera. Light’s trail presents itself fortuitously over...

    Water from The Tremulous Stream
  • 1995
    I Take These Truths

    I Take These Truths

    I Take These Truths

    5.21995HD

    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...

    I Take These Truths
  • 1977
    Glenn Miller 1 (High School Backyard 1)

    Glenn Miller 1 (High School Backyard 1)

    Glenn Miller 1 (High School Backyard 1)

    01977HD

    An abstract, minimalistic showpiece of late structuralist film made up of 360-degree pans across a children’s playground – and to one of...

    Glenn Miller 1 (High School Backyard 1)
  • 2011
    Le Guignon

    Le Guignon

    Le Guignon

    62011HD

    Jon Rafman's short features computer-generated renders of the Twin Towers and a narration from Charles Baudelaire's "Le Guignon."

    Le Guignon
  • 1962
    Justice

    Justice

    Justice

    81962HD

    A man and a woman quarrel in the street. Others take sides, and a brawl begins. The police finally intervene and justice is carried out in a manner...

    Justice
  • 2018
    George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

    George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

    George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

    72018HD

    In 1961 Lithuanian American artist and impresario George Maciunas established the avant-garde art movement Fluxus. George details the rise of Fluxus...

    George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus
  • 2022
    The Beginner's Guide to Spinning in Loops

    The Beginner's Guide to Spinning in Loops

    The Beginner's Guide to Spinning in Loops

    02022HD

    From June 2021 to June 2022, Justin "Jastun" Bland records whatever that is in front of him. He presents an abstract montage of collected videos...

    The Beginner's Guide to Spinning in Loops
  • 2022
    Everyday Portabella

    Everyday Portabella

    Everyday Portabella

    02022HD

    Everyday Portabella
  • 1965
    15 Song Traits

    15 Song Traits

    15 Song Traits

    81965HD

    A series of individual portraits of friends and family, all interrelated in what might be called a branch growing directly from the trunk of SONGS 1...

    15 Song Traits
  • 1966
    Shout

    Shout

    Shout

    51966HD

    Close-ups of two faces, shouting at each other.

    Shout
  • 2018
    Spring Masks

    Spring Masks

    Spring Masks

    02018HD

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

    Spring Masks
  • 1995
    The Female Offender

    The Female Offender

    The Female Offender

    01995HD

    An exploration of the space where femininity and criminality collide. The film collages archival footage clips culled from silent films, original...

    The Female Offender
  • 2019
    Number Two

    Number Two

    Number Two

    02019HD

    Number Two’ is an audio visual work which materializes the definite possibilities of sight and the existence of light in space with the drama...

    Number Two
  • 2019
    Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

    Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

    Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

    02019HD

    Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) explores Video Art, revealing how different generations ‘hacked’ the tools of television to pioneer new ways of...

    Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
  • 2016
    The Other Line

    The Other Line

    The Other Line

    02016HD

    Druga linija aka The Other Line is a product of many years of research of neo-avant-garde cultural and art scene in Novi Sad, Serbia (late 60s and...

    The Other Line
  • 1978
    Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: One Two Three

    Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: One Two Three

    Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: One Two Three

    01978HD

    An abstract work featuring three dancers, the performers interact with large screens as well as each other. Included in Shirley Clarke’s Four...

    Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: One Two Three
  • 2006
    About Buenos Aires

    About Buenos Aires

    About Buenos Aires

    52006HD

    Eleven young film-makers got together to collaborate in this atypical project. Atypical not only because of its technical specs, but because of its...

    About Buenos Aires
  • 2014
    Rene Magritte: Man in the Hat

    Rene Magritte: Man in the Hat

    Rene Magritte: Man in the Hat

    42014HD

    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...

    Rene Magritte: Man in the Hat
  • 2002
    Frank Zappa: Phase II - The Big Note

    Frank Zappa: Phase II - The Big Note

    Frank Zappa: Phase II - The Big Note

    02002HD

    Frank Zappa: Phase Two is a 2002 documentary about Frank Zappa. It features a lot of footage from Scheffer's previous film, but new material from...

    Frank Zappa: Phase II - The Big Note