Avant Garde Movies

  • 1968
    Plastic Blag

    Plastic Blag

    Plastic Blag

    01968HD

    Judith Wardwell’s satirical take on America’s sanitation obsession and sexually repressive Puritanism

    Plastic Blag
  • 2020
    Where Do The Waves Go?

    Where Do The Waves Go?

    Where Do The Waves Go?

    02020HD

    A documentary on electronic music made using "bio-feedback" devices and techniques.

    Where Do The Waves Go?
  • 2025
    Catastrophe

    Catastrophe

    Catastrophe

    02025HD

    An archival film recovered by the Kydean Film Institute 10 years after the bombing of Renegraad.

    Catastrophe
  • 1978
    Mystery and Melancholy of a Street

    Mystery and Melancholy of a Street

    Mystery and Melancholy of a Street

    01978HD

    16mm film by Radoslav Vladić.

    Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
  • 2024
    A Sense of Nothing

    A Sense of Nothing

    A Sense of Nothing

    02024HD

    A film motivated by nothing (but daily life and (my) vision). It represents nothing, it signifies nothing. There’s no hidden meaning, no...

    A Sense of Nothing
  • 2024
    French Poem

    French Poem

    French Poem

    02024HD

    Two men sit in a car, watching the world through the windshield. One is silent, the other is slowly drinking himself to death. External reality...

    French Poem
  • 2017
    Choirs of the Eye: Live at The Stone

    Choirs of the Eye: Live at The Stone

    Choirs of the Eye: Live at The Stone

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    Filmed in August of 2015 at The Stone in New York City, Kayo Dot performed their debut album Choirs Of The Eye in its entirety for a group of fewer...

    Choirs of the Eye: Live at The Stone
  • 1971
    Doldertal 7

    Doldertal 7

    Doldertal 7

    81971HD

    Edited but not printed. Filmed in Zurich. Original reversal film deposted in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

    Doldertal 7
  • 2022
    b.2402

    b.2402

    b.2402

    102022HD

    The film is about the deceleration of motion in linear form and speed, establishing a connection between space and love. It ends with high-contrast...

    b.2402
  • 2020
    Perdurare

    Perdurare

    Perdurare

    02020HD

    A meditation on time and its effect on memory. About the rocks the sea tries to drag away from the shore, towards the ocean, with every wave.

    Perdurare
  • 1949
    The Petrified Dog

    The Petrified Dog

    The Petrified Dog

    5.31949HD

    Chases within chases. A mother runs after a child. A man seems to be pursuing himself. A woman who has been nibbling her lipstick through half of the...

    The Petrified Dog
  • 2024
    After James Benning's YouTube

    After James Benning's YouTube

    After James Benning's YouTube

    02024HD

    Divided into 26 parts, an attempt to remake James Benning's film, YouTube (2011) with similar internet footage after 13 years.

    After James Benning's YouTube
  • 2022
    Crow

    Crow

    Crow

    02022HD

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

    Crow
  • 1997
    Yoni

    Yoni

    Yoni

    01997HD

    This provocative short film explores women's power, force and passion through an enigmatic series of images, erotic performances and tableaux vivant....

    Yoni
  • 1972
    Mis-Takes

    Mis-Takes

    Mis-Takes

    31972HD

    A colorful collage, with a subtle ecology theme, made largely from footage from trial runs of programs used for many of the other films.

    Mis-Takes
  • 1965
    15 Song Traits

    15 Song Traits

    15 Song Traits

    8.51965HD

    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
  • 2005
    Big Black Square

    Big Black Square

    Big Black Square

    02005HD

    Short film by Paul Clipson from the Celluloid Sketches & Watercolor Movies DVD

    Big Black Square
  • 2011
    Tape

    Tape

    Tape

    02011HD

    For five grueling years, Li Ning documents his struggle to achieve success as an avant-garde artist while contending with the pressures of modern...

    Tape
  • 2023
    bleared eyes of blue glass

    bleared eyes of blue glass

    bleared eyes of blue glass

    02023HD

    The "bleared eyes of blue glass" in the title of this experimental short expand on a verbal image from Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves, considered...

    bleared eyes of blue glass
  • 1980
    Dr. Jeckyll and Ms. Hyde

    Dr. Jeckyll and Ms. Hyde

    Dr. Jeckyll and Ms. Hyde

    01980HD

    This black-and-white nightmare gives Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale
of the dark id a campy, gender-flipping treatment reminiscent...

    Dr. Jeckyll and Ms. Hyde