Avant Garde Movies
- 2007
Entr'acte
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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....
- 1948
Psyche
Psyche6.31948HD
Psyche 1947, made while a student at USC, shows Markopoulos’ developing style and his sensuous use of colour and composition. Shot in the...
- 1986
Blind Eye Sees All
Blind Eye Sees All01986HD
Blind Eye Sees All is a concert video by Butthole Surfers, which was released on VHS tape in 1985 through Touch and Go Video. The bulk of the video...
- 1977
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...
- 1969
Our Lady of the Sphere
Our Lady of the Sphere4.91969HD
Animation using cutout animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on...
- 2024
Intoxicated
Intoxicated102024HD
The Chronicle of a on-and-off relationship between two young men, plagued by alcoholism, violence, and too many second chances.
- 1997
Clip
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A sequence of 10 images presented in 10 groups of 400 alternating frames. The primary image of a bird is gradually disfigured by the successive...
- 1990
Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave
Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave5.71990HD
Brakhage begins here with Carlsbad Caverns as a stand-in for Plato's Cave and then responds to the philosopher's notion of inaccessible ideal forms...
- 2013
Going Underground: Paul McCartney, the Beatles and the UK Counterculture
Going Underground: Paul McCartney, the Beatles and the UK Counterculture02013HD
Feature-length documentary examining the growth of the UK Counterculture in the mid-1960s, and Paul McCartney's involvement with this movement, which...
- 1976
Superdyke Meets Madame X
Superdyke Meets Madame X5.51976HD
From the first kiss to breakup, Almy and Hammer record their relationship on a reel-to-reel ¾” tape recorder and microphone.
- 2017
Madhouse Mitchel
Madhouse Mitchel02017HD
Creeping from the halls of the maze brain, corruption and terror is woven by devils born from the denied errors of mankind.
- 1947
Fragment of Seeking
Fragment of Seeking5.61947HD
A young man desperately seeks out the fleeting image of a female companion, and though he never quite catches her, he discovers much more through the...
- 2001
The Granny's Apocrypha
The Granny's Apocrypha102001HD
Saw and imagined in the children's fantasy the story of grandmother of Christ and the Apostles a little girl. Today few people remember that just a...
- 2024
A Bold Voyage
A Bold Voyage02024HD
A tragic story of a musician taking a bold voyage in the pursuit of creation, ambition, and need. Letting life choose for him, as part of the art...
- 1980
Lake Placid '80
Lake Placid '8081980HD
Paik produced this exuberant, high-speed collage as a commission for the National Fine Arts Committee of the 1980 Olympic Winter Games. In a...
- 1981
The Song of Stockholm
The Song of Stockholm6.31981HD
Sightseeing Stockholm offbeat through the lens of Jonas Mekas.
- 1996
Prelude 9
Prelude 961996HD
...again, is "plein-aire abstraction" as defined above (painted in New York City) – with, for example, even a correctly toned green impression...
- 1938
Jack's Dream
Jack's Dream6.21938HD
A lucid dream turned nightmarish reality. A ship sinking into a world of fear. A short film that’s mostly puppetry by one of America's...
- 2012
Open Eyes
Open Eyes52012HD
Collective experimental film by Team 8mm TENGOKU.
- 2022
Ground Control
Ground Control02022HD
A journey to an unknown star, a children's theatre play, an untalented writer and the fear of becoming the worst version of oneself. A mixture of...