Avant Garde Movies

The long flights of spacecraft have been in the past, as well as the chronicle of accomplishments. Snatches of memory bring to us the fragments of...

In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H....

Our host Dr. Dramaminex Dante seeks to answer the question: Who knows what the devil looks like? For no one really knows.

This short film made by László Moholy-Nagy is based on the shadow patterns created by his Light-Space Modulator, an early kinetic...

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

Part of the larger filmic Four Journeys Into Mystic Time, in this work director Shirley Clarke makes use of a dancer’s body not only as the...

Knokke, Belgium. A small mundane coastal town, home to the beau-monde. To compete with Venice and Cannes, the posh casino hosts the second...

#13, glancing, or avoiding.

A Week in the Hole chronicles a factory employee’s adjusting to the materials, time, space and personnel during his first day of work.

A brief and experimental ode to the humble dandelion, shot on 16mm developed using an eco-processor made of dandelions.

Changes of spatial relationships, scales, locations, and materials are intimated with recognisable clues which nevertheless do not always eliminate...

As the Cheshire Cat once said: Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. This is Electric Mushrooms...

The faces of a 5:00 PM crowd descending via the Pan Am building escalators in one continuous shot. In old-fashioned black and white, these faces...

A girl who was floating freely in the water accidentally gets her skin cut by a sailboat passing by. The story is derived from personal experience,...

A young writer struggling to create a good story meets a cute waitress and imagination and fantasy blossom.

The film is an allegory in which the attempt is made to show the inner process of movement of the composer's soul at the time of the birth of music.

In The Jungle, playfully and sorrowfully tells the tale of an unreliable narrator in a self imposed exile. Given a grant to study the equivalent of...

A whirlwind of improvisation combines the images of animator Pierre Hébert with the avant-garde sound of techno whiz Bob Ostertag in this...

This film takes its cue from that ultimate situation of Sex/Med/masturbation - the loft-and-lonely hotel room. It is thus easily twice the length and...

We are first presented a cobweb castle, filled with the haunting doubts of the young protagonist. Spirits appear on the screen and are heard on the...