Avant Garde Movies

"This film explores how freedom of speech — including dissent — is afforded to all Americans, and shows freedom of expression in art,...

“For my film portrait of Sasha Grey, I wanted to focus on her expressive and psychological transformation into a cinematic actor, separate from...

Found film sequences brought together in the paranoia of the cold war and Vietnam.

A foreign girl arrives to her new apartment. Her three roommates welcome her rather distantly, for no reason at all, and she can smell that there is...

A compelling narrative told entirely through subtitles, lights, and chairs.

A journey between Astoria and Herald Square through the windows of the train.

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...

SMOKING is a brief portrait of Maria Klonaris composed of seven shots. Katerina Thomadaki completed it in 2016, two years after Maria Klonaris'...

Drawing inspiration from a poem penned by Castro Alves, this film vividly captures the political, cultural, and intellectual climate of Brazil during...

The story of Nisar Ahmed Khan, told through his children and the people he served, a spiritual guide whose followers still visit his tomb on his...

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.

Flash Passion is one of the very first films that the two artists made in Athens when they took up the super-8 camera and extended their theatre...

A three-dimensional narrative enacted at the California Poppy Reserve. It’s part of Mike Plante's Lunchfilm series of commissioned shorts (made...

This film is made by some beautiful and unique alchemical transformations of the film material itself. It is a visual expedition into the world of...

A "thing" created by Frank Zappa from two concerts filmed live at the Palladium, New York City, on Halloween 1981. With Ray White, Steve Vai, Bobby...

A film interpretation of a poem by Vincent Katz.

An experimental four-part short film that shows the outcomes of life through a vacation trip.

A journey to an unknown star, a children's theatre play, an untalented writer and the fear of becoming the worst version of oneself. A mixture of...

Women, landscapes and manifestations of color meet experimentally with the possibilities of the artisanal copying technique on 16mm.