Avant Garde Movies

The history and art of ikebana, a centuries old Japanese art of flower arrangement and a look inside the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, where the director...

Experimental film by Manuel Huerga.

An abstract, minimalistic showpiece of late structuralist film made up of 360-degree pans across a children’s playground – and to one of the gods of h...

A loop of a guy in Maine hanging out in his room.

In a surreal meeting filled with countless individuals from a variety of backgrounds, nine people recount how sex and sexuality have been used to exer...

Avant-garde short focused on the pure elements of film like form, visual composition, and rhythm.

The film begins with a series of horizontally running ocean tide waves, sometimes with mountains in the background, hand-painted patterns, sometimes s...

A found footage examination of what happened at the lake today. Where were you? An exquisite corpse by Non Films. 8mm images randomly selected from...

Nevermore Eleanor (2024) | 2160p

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

This programme tells the story behind the conception, recording and release of this groundbreaking album. By use of interviews, musical demonstration,...

A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. - Harvard Film Archive

In 1967, I decided to visit Avila where I had an enlightening experience.

Pig Chicken Suicide is a veritable assault on the senses, mixing violent images of animal slaughter, racial strife, and surrealism to tell the story o...

The creative processes of avant-garde composer Philip Glass and progressive director/designer Robert Wilson are examined in this film. It documents th...

A silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lovemaking between Schneemann and her then partner, composer James Tenney; observed by the cat, Kit...

An experimental film that lifts the veil on the world of African American drag racing.

Twenty-four images of a camera running in the woods, a moonlight and a cemetery through improvised gestures, mechanical abstraction and saturated colo...

The death of the minotavr talks about the concept of the heroine's journey. Suffering, horror and exhaustion lead the protagonist to a process of tran...

An engine moves from the roundhouse to a track where it couples with several passenger cars. At 2:10 in the afternoon, it starts a trip out of the sta...