Avant Garde Movies

  • 2007
    Entr'acte

    Entr'acte

    Entr'acte

    02007HD

    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....

    Entr'acte
  • 1948
    Psyche

    Psyche

    Psyche

    6.31948HD

    Psyche 1947, made while a student at USC, shows Markopoulos’ developing style and his sensuous use of colour and composition. Shot in the...

    Psyche
  • 1986
    Blind Eye Sees All

    Blind Eye Sees All

    Blind Eye Sees All

    01986HD

    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...

    Blind Eye Sees All
  • 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)
  • 1969
    Our Lady of the Sphere

    Our Lady of the Sphere

    Our Lady of the Sphere

    4.91969HD

    Animation using cutout animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on...

    Our Lady of the Sphere
  • 2024
    Intoxicated

    Intoxicated

    Intoxicated

    102024HD

    The Chronicle of a on-and-off relationship between two young men, plagued by alcoholism, violence, and too many second chances.

    Intoxicated
  • 1997
    Clip

    Clip

    Clip

    01997HD

    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...

    Clip
  • 1990
    Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave

    Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave

    Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave

    5.71990HD

    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...

    Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave
  • 2013
    Going Underground: Paul McCartney, the Beatles and the UK Counterculture

    Going Underground: Paul McCartney, the Beatles and the UK Counterculture

    Going Underground: Paul McCartney, the Beatles and the UK Counterculture

    02013HD

    Feature-length documentary examining the growth of the UK Counterculture in the mid-1960s, and Paul McCartney's involvement with this movement, which...

    Going Underground: Paul McCartney, the Beatles and the UK Counterculture
  • 1976
    Superdyke Meets Madame X

    Superdyke Meets Madame X

    Superdyke Meets Madame X

    5.51976HD

    From the first kiss to breakup, Almy and Hammer record their relationship on a reel-to-reel ¾” tape recorder and microphone.

    Superdyke Meets Madame X
  • 2017
    Madhouse Mitchel

    Madhouse Mitchel

    Madhouse Mitchel

    02017HD

    Creeping from the halls of the maze brain, corruption and terror is woven by devils born from the denied errors of mankind.

    Madhouse Mitchel
  • 1947
    Fragment of Seeking

    Fragment of Seeking

    Fragment of Seeking

    5.61947HD

    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...

    Fragment of Seeking
  • 2001
    The Granny's Apocrypha

    The Granny's Apocrypha

    The Granny's Apocrypha

    102001HD

    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...

    The Granny's Apocrypha
  • 2024
    A Bold Voyage

    A Bold Voyage

    A Bold Voyage

    02024HD

    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...

    A Bold Voyage
  • 1980
    Lake Placid '80

    Lake Placid '80

    Lake Placid '80

    81980HD

    Paik produced this exuberant, high-speed collage as a commission for the National Fine Arts Committee of the 1980 Olympic Winter Games. In a...

    Lake Placid '80
  • 1981
    The Song of Stockholm

    The Song of Stockholm

    The Song of Stockholm

    6.31981HD

    Sightseeing Stockholm offbeat through the lens of Jonas Mekas.

    The Song of Stockholm
  • 1996
    Prelude 9

    Prelude 9

    Prelude 9

    61996HD

    ...again, is "plein-aire abstraction" as defined above (painted in New York City) – with, for example, even a correctly toned green impression...

    Prelude 9
  • 1938
    Jack's Dream

    Jack's Dream

    Jack's Dream

    6.21938HD

    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...

    Jack's Dream
  • 2012
    Open Eyes

    Open Eyes

    Open Eyes

    52012HD

    Collective experimental film by Team 8mm TENGOKU.

    Open Eyes
  • 2022
    Ground Control

    Ground Control

    Ground Control

    02022HD

    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...

    Ground Control