Movies: Avant garde
- 2011
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011)
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An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was screened one time only on a purpose-built 20x12 meter public cinema screen in the Port of Tallinn, E...
- 2008
La deuxième femme (2008)
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Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La deuxième femme, we see Bulle Ogier and Viva, Nico and Tina Aumont, Philippe Garrel and Udo Kier, a performance by Béjart, ...
- 1998
Sombre (1998)
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A serial killer stalks a woman he befriended after her car broke down....
- 2024
HOLGER (2024)
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Described as 'a fairytale with its roots in the worlds of dadaism and surrealism'....
- 2016
Endless (2016)
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A lonesome man at the threshold of death finds himself trapped in a place called the Endless....
- 1969
The Angel Was Born (1969)
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Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mystical visionary and believes in the imminent coming of a purifying angel. Urtiga, his inseparable companion, is a simple-minded and ingenious man who ...
- 2024
Cygnus OB2#12 (2024)
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Experimental short film of colors and lights...
- 1972
Fata Morgana (1972)
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Shot under extreme conditions and inspired by Mayan creation theory, the film contemplates the illusion of reality and the possibility of capturing for the camera something which is not there. It is about the mirages of nature—and the nature of mirag...
- 2013
R (2013)
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In a surreal meeting filled with countless individuals from a variety of backgrounds, nine people recount how sex and sexuality have been used to exert control over their lives. Regardless of race, sexual orientation, nationality, social class, relig...
- 1973
Dalmas (1973)
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Bert Deling's surreal, button-pushing and hallucinogenic paean to the emerging possibilities of avant-garde and homemade filmmaking. Telling the tale of a violent ex-cop searching for the man who killed his partner, the film takes an unexpected turn ...
- 1961
Serenity (1961)
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Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit and contains additional titles, music and voice-over added later than 1961. 65 minutes.) Filmed in Mytilene a...
- 2014
Rene Magritte: Man in the Hat (2014)
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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 conventional exterior concealed the mind of a subversive rebel. Will uncovers a childhood marked by tra...
- 1974
Dyketactics (1974)
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Born in Los Angeles but a New Yorker by choice, Barbara Hammer is a whole genre unto herself. Her pioneering 1974 short film Dyketactics, a four-minute, hippie wonder consisting of frolicking naked women in the countryside, broke new ground for its e...
- 1944
Witch's Cradle (1944)
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The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost spiderweb-like pattern over the hands of several individuals, most notably an unnamed young woman and an elderly gentleman. The film also shows a shadowy d...
- 1984
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell (1984)
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In his book "1984", George Orwell saw the television of the future as a control instrument in the hands of Big Brother. Right at the start of the much-anticipated Orwellian year, Paik and Co. were keen to demonstrate satellite TV's ability to serve p...
- 1970
Oxygen (1970)
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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. A journalist who came to the Island to make a report about political summit that takes place there g...
- 1985
Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera (1985)
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The creative processes of avant-garde composer Philip Glass and progressive director/designer Robert Wilson are examined in this film. It documents their collaboration on this tradition breaking opera....
- 2013
Frank Zappa: A Token Of His Extreme (2013)
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Frank Zappa: A Token of his Extreme is the 1974 television special recorded at Kcet in Hollywood that was produced by Zappa and aired only in France and Switzerland. The program, as thoroughly tweezed and produced by Zappa for his own Honker Home Vi...
- 1990
Lou Reed and John Cale: Songs for Drella (1990)
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Songs for Drella is a concept album by Lou Reed and John Cale, both formerly of The Velvet Underground, and is dedicated to the memory of Andy Warhol, their mentor, who had died unexpectedly in 1987. Drella was a nickname for Warhol coined by Warhol ...
- 1929
Autumn Mists (1929)
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An early impressionist short featuring a woman who dreams of, and escapes into, an autumn forest....