Movies: Avant garde

  • 1928
    The Starfish

    The Starfish (1928)

    The Starfish

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    The romantic relationship between a man and a woman....

    The Starfish
  • 2019
    Bauhaus 100

    Bauhaus 100 (2019)

    Bauhaus 100

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    In 1919 an art school opened in Germany that would change the world forever. It was called the Bauhaus. A century later, its radical thinking still shapes our lives today. Bauhaus 100 is the story of Walter Gropius, architect and founder of the Bauh...

    Bauhaus 100
  • 1973
    Dalmas

    Dalmas (1973)

    Dalmas

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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 ...

    Dalmas
  • 2019
    Luz

    Luz (2019)

    Luz

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    Luz, a young cabdriver, drags herself into the brightly lit entrance of a run-down police station. A demonic entity follows her, determined to finally be close to the woman it loves....

    Luz
  • 2014
    Frank Zappa - Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily

    Frank Zappa - Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily (2014)

    Frank Zappa - Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily

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    In the feature documentary, Summer 82 - When Zappa Came to Sicily, filmmaker and Zappa fan Salvo Cuccia tells the behind-the-scenes story of Frank Zappa's star-crossed concert in Palermo, Sicily, the wrap-up to a European tour that ended in public di...

    Frank Zappa - Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily
  • 1963
    Méditerranée

    Méditerranée (1963)

    Méditerranée

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    [Here] Pollet made a work that is the very definition of what French critics like to call an ovni or ufo (as in ‘unidentified filmic object’). [It] has been described as being ‘like a comet in the sky of French cinema,’ an ‘unknown masterpiece,’ and ...

    Méditerranée
  • 1969
    The Angel Was Born

    The Angel Was Born (1969)

    The Angel Was Born

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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 ...

    The Angel Was Born
  • 1993
    A Life of Extravaganza - The Genius Frank Zappa

    A Life of Extravaganza - The Genius Frank Zappa (1993)

    A Life of Extravaganza - The Genius Frank Zappa

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    The documentary examines Frank Zappa and his music through archive footage, including unique video excerpts from Austrian television archives featuring interviews with Zappa and backstage scenes from the 1970s and 1980s. The entire film is divided in...

    A Life of Extravaganza - The Genius Frank Zappa
  • 2016
    Night Flight: Born Again

    Night Flight: Born Again (2016)

    Night Flight: Born Again

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    Documentary tribute to what VH1 called “the single greatest rock omnibus program ever aired” and Brooklyn Vegan named “the most consistently weird and awesome thing on cable television in the ’80s.” This ‘Best Of’ episode features some of the most m...

    Night Flight: Born Again
  • 2002
    Cremaster 3

    Cremaster 3 (2002)

    Cremaster 3

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    CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence. These factions find...

    Cremaster 3
  • 1962
    Prelude: Dog Star Man

    Prelude: Dog Star Man (1962)

    Prelude: Dog Star Man

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    A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an explosion of color and squiggles and happenstance. Next, images of small circles emerge then of the Sun. Imag...

    Prelude: Dog Star Man
  • 1988
    Tales from the Gimli Hospital

    Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)

    Tales from the Gimli Hospital

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    While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old....

    Tales from the Gimli Hospital
  • 1996
    Prelude 2

    Prelude 2 (1996)

    Prelude 2

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    Interplay of toned rectangular shapes, vertical and horizontal and diagonal lines in juxtaposition with hardened darker shapes which gradually shift tone and lighten until ending on thin blues....

    Prelude 2
  • 1980
    Lake Placid '80

    Lake Placid '80 (1980)

    Lake Placid '80

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    Paik produced this exuberant, high-speed collage as a commission for the National Fine Arts Committee of the 1980 Olympic Winter Games. In a fractured explosion of densely layered movement and action, images of Olympic sports events are mixed with Pa...

    Lake Placid '80
  • 2020
    Casual Workers

    Casual Workers (2020)

    Casual Workers

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    An abstract perspective into two young South African workers in the heart of Johannesburg's industrial sector during Covid-19...

    Casual Workers
  • 2020
    Progressive Touch

    Progressive Touch (2020)

    Progressive Touch

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    Sex as dance and comedy: in Progressive Touch Portnoy studies and expands the relationship between sex, choreography and composing music. He introduces complex compositions from progressive rock and math metal during sex, thereby combating the ostens...

    Progressive Touch
  • 2008
    Frank Zappa: The Torture Never Stops

    Frank Zappa: The Torture Never Stops (2008)

    Frank Zappa: The Torture Never Stops

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    Halloween, New York City, 1981 Live at The Palladium with Ray White, Steve Vai, Bobby Martin, Tommy Mars, Ed Mann, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman...

    Frank Zappa: The Torture Never Stops
  • 1958
    The Very Eye of Night

    The Very Eye of Night (1958)

    The Very Eye of Night

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    Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate untroubled by gravity against a slowly changing starfield background. Their movements are accompanied by mus...

    The Very Eye of Night
  • 2012
    Discovering Buñuel

    Discovering Buñuel (2012)

    Discovering Buñuel

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    Luis Bunuel, the father of cinematic Surrealism, made his film debut with 'Un Chien Andalou' in 1929 working closely with Salvador Dali. Considered one of the finest and controversial filmmakers with, 'L’Age d’Or' (1930), attacking the church and the...

    Discovering Buñuel
  • 2023
    Irish Catholic

    Irish Catholic (2023)

    Irish Catholic

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    Meet Shavon O'Brien: Her family doesn't understand her, her church ignores her, even Jesus forgets about her. With only the spirit of Sinead O'Connor to guide her, Shavon battles institutional child abuse, narcissistic group think, a talking stomach...

    Irish Catholic