Avant Garde Movies

A woman rocks a cradle; a man comes to land from the sea, but leaves to view it from a distance.

In 1963 and 1964, Andy Warhol captured dancer-choreographers Lucinda Childs, Yvonne Rainer, and Freddy Herko, and Village Voice dance critic Jill...

A poetic journey from the darkness of dawn into the brightness of the midday sun in the American South. Filmed over the course of six months on one...

Experimental short film.

Man and the Dog (2022) is a British neo avant-garde short film that plays around with the concept of speed. The pace is being constantly increased,...

The life of painter, dancer and poet Mark Turbyfill, seen in his 70th year, is evoked through Markopoulos’ unique form of cinematic portraiture.

"Shiloh Cinquemani works wonders simply by framing flowers in “Narcissi” and “Rose.” Her delirious flux of glances...

Filmed in Zürich. For Sofía Verder "As if I had the intention to narrate things, I have saved a considerable amount of notes and...

This film is shot to point out the flood of commercial messages in television program, on billboards and megaboards, messages that take over our...

Influenced by abstract expressionism, a series of black and white high-contrast positive episodes characterized by intense bursts of light and deep...

These two films investigate frustrations in loving, DAYBREAK with a girl as object, WHITEYE with the camera as subject. Preserved by the Academy...

From 1967-71 Barry Spinello made films without camera or tape recorder by hand drawing both sound and picture directly onto clear 16mm leader. His...

The first part of director Seth Tyler Black’s Portraits tryptic, A Portrait: A Philosophy paints the cyclical nature of the lifespan of an...

A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which...

Short film made with underexposed video footage.

Video art piece by Michigan artist Gio Orlando.

A regular grocery store watermelon seeks a higher ranking in the hierarchy of the universe.

Edited but unprinted. Filmed in Paris. Original reversal film in Temenos Archive, Zurich.

Against a repetitive trance-inducing loop of four carefully excerpted bars from “Ntsikana’s Bell” (1974, with Johnny Dyani), the...

Shenzhen River (the border btw Hong Kong and Shenzhen), and the Second Line of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (the border between Socialism China and...