Avant Garde Movies

  • 1997
    Clip

    Clip

    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...

    Clip
  • 2017
    Baa Baa Land

    Baa Baa Land

    Baa Baa Land

    92017HD

    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
  • 1970
    Oxygen

    Oxygen

    Oxygen

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    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
  • 1973
    Narcissicon

    Narcissicon

    Narcissicon

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

    Narcissicon
  • 2024
    Running Fields IV

    Running Fields IV

    Running Fields IV

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    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
  • 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
  • 1976
    Superdyke Meets Madame X

    Superdyke Meets Madame X

    Superdyke Meets Madame X

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    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

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    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

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

    Metaphysics of Sound
  • 1971
    Meditation

    Meditation

    Meditation

    5.61971HD

    An abstract experimental short film from Jordan Belson.

    Meditation
  • 1996
    Prelude 9

    Prelude 9

    Prelude 9

    6.41996HD

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

    Prelude 9
  • 1963
    Sun in Your Head

    Sun in Your Head

    Sun in Your Head

    5.71963HD

    "Single Frame sequences of TV or film images, with periodic distortions of the image. The images are airplanes, women men interspersed with pictures...

    Sun in Your Head
  • 1969
    Homo sapiens

    Homo sapiens

    Homo sapiens

    6.81969HD

    The first film in Vlatko Gilić’s Sisyphean trilogy, Homo sapiens follows a suited man as he takes a trek back and forth across a sandy...

    Homo sapiens
  • 2009
    Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis

    Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis

    Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis

    5.32009HD

    The film explores familiar landscape imagery Saïto and Goldstein share in their neighbourhood at the foot of Mount-Royal Park in...

    Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis
  • 2021
    Chance Encounters With Oxygen

    Chance Encounters With Oxygen

    Chance Encounters With Oxygen

    02021HD

    A psychedelic, avant-garde collage film designed to accompany PRPL PPL's experimental album of the same name.

    Chance Encounters With Oxygen
  • 2014
    Intransit

    Intransit

    Intransit

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    A thrillingly lo-fi salute to the old-school, hand-crafted special effects that were once a mainstay of pre-CGI science-fiction films.

    Intransit
  • 2016
    February 14, 1992

    February 14, 1992

    February 14, 1992

    02016HD

    With some amount of irony, filmmaker Joe Biglin strings together 7 shorts about himself and things that trigger his OCD.

    February 14, 1992
  • 1930
    Pharmacy

    Pharmacy

    Pharmacy

    01930HD

    A photogram, used previously only within art photography, is adapted to create abstract moving patterns.

    Pharmacy
  • 2026
    The Plutonian Prophecy: Preface

    The Plutonian Prophecy: Preface

    The Plutonian Prophecy: Preface

    02026HD

    In this vertical short-form video, a strange fortune teller comes with a message for a specific collective.

    The Plutonian Prophecy: Preface