Avant Garde Movies

  • 1989
    Natural History

    Natural History

    Natural History

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    The parents of an adult infant named "Child", played by Todd Haynes, attempt to expel him from their home, by casting magical spell seen in a...

    Natural History
  • 1970
    Desmayo Largueta

    Desmayo Largueta

    Desmayo Largueta

    01970HD

    Desmayo Largueta
  • 2019
    Trópico violeta

    Trópico violeta

    Trópico violeta

    02019HD

    Women, landscapes and manifestations of color meet experimentally with the possibilities of the artisanal copying technique on 16mm.

    Trópico violeta
  • 1974
    Path of Cessation

    Path of Cessation

    Path of Cessation

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    In PATH OF CESSATION the image that is communicated to us by Fulton is a highly mystifying one. Rather than analyze, or enter into a dialogue with...

    Path of Cessation
  • 1983
    OK Today Tomorrow

    OK Today Tomorrow

    OK Today Tomorrow

    01983HD

    Arriving in the US with a background in abstract art, opera, and film—including work with German director Werner Schroeter—Vogl began...

    OK Today Tomorrow
  • 2024
    Cygnus-X

    Cygnus-X

    Cygnus-X

    02024HD

    Experimental short film of colors and lights. Silence.

    Cygnus-X
  • 2010
    Casa Loma

    Casa Loma

    Casa Loma

    02010HD

    Casa Loma was the unfinished dream mansion of Canadian industrial magnate Henry Pellatt. A self-made millionaire, Pellatt was derided by fellow...

    Casa Loma
  • 1956
    No. 10: Mirror Animations

    No. 10: Mirror Animations

    No. 10: Mirror Animations

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    Study for Film No. 11: Mirror Animations (1957). Harry Smith described the film as, “An exposition of Buddhism and the Kaballah in the form of...

    No. 10: Mirror Animations
  • 2012
    Gold Moon, Sharp Arrow

    Gold Moon, Sharp Arrow

    Gold Moon, Sharp Arrow

    02012HD

    Against a backdrop of electrocution, dominance, and scientific precision, wasps nest in an abandoned refrigerator, eyelashes flutter, curtains blow...

    Gold Moon, Sharp Arrow
  • 2017
    Baa Baa Land

    Baa Baa Land

    Baa Baa Land

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    An eight-hour contemplative epic, entirely starring sheep.

    Baa Baa Land
  • 2014
    Rene Magritte: Man in the Hat

    Rene Magritte: Man in the Hat

    Rene Magritte: Man in the Hat

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    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
  • 1950
    Swain

    Swain

    Swain

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    Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of...

    Swain
  • 1969
    The Midnight Party

    The Midnight Party

    The Midnight Party

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    A short film where circus performers entertain children.

    The Midnight Party
  • 1970
    Oxygen

    Oxygen

    Oxygen

    5.71970HD

    In this story set in near future, a group of young rebels, hippies and 1968 protesters want to cede and make an independent Island from the Mainland....

    Oxygen
  • 2011
    Christ Church – Saint James

    Christ Church – Saint James

    Christ Church – Saint James

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    In the spring of 1998, Christ Church - Saint James, an historic black church in Toronto's Little Italy, was destroyed by arson. All that remained...

    Christ Church – Saint James
  • 1973
    Narcissicon

    Narcissicon

    Narcissicon

    01973HD

    A narrative self-discovery theme done in real time in Art Nouveau style.

    Narcissicon
  • 2024
    Running Fields IV

    Running Fields IV

    Running Fields IV

    02024HD

    Twenty-four images of a camera running in the woods, a moonlight and a cemetery through improvised gestures, mechanical abstraction and saturated...

    Running Fields IV
  • 1976
    Superdyke Meets Madame X

    Superdyke Meets Madame X

    Superdyke Meets Madame X

    6.21976HD

    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
  • 1966
    Sunblack

    Sunblack

    Sunblack

    01966HD

    The Black Film Series, a sequence of seven films made between 1965-69, is a primitive, sensory exploration of the medium, which ranges from total...

    Sunblack
  • 2008
    Metaphysics of Sound

    Metaphysics of Sound

    Metaphysics of Sound

    02008HD

    Adopting mainly hand contact printing with photographic enlarger, «Metaphysics of sound» started from September of 2006 and completed in...

    Metaphysics of Sound