Avant Garde Movies

  • 2021
    A Heap of Broken Images

    A Heap of Broken Images

    A Heap of Broken Images

    52021HD

    Sunday afternoon. Images of last summer. A view of the sunset from a hill. Some flashes.

    A Heap of Broken Images
  • 2017
    Choirs of the Eye: Live at The Stone

    Choirs of the Eye: Live at The Stone

    Choirs of the Eye: Live at The Stone

    02017HD

    Filmed in August of 2015 at The Stone in New York City, Kayo Dot performed their debut album Choirs Of The Eye in its entirety for a group of fewer...

    Choirs of the Eye: Live at The Stone
  • 1976
    Biljana Returned from London

    Biljana Returned from London

    Biljana Returned from London

    01976HD

    A man’s female friend who just came back from London spends time on the river shore.

    Biljana Returned from London
  • 2021
    Hauntology of the Retrodromomania

    Hauntology of the Retrodromomania

    Hauntology of the Retrodromomania

    102021HD

    Hauntology of the Retrodromomania is an essayistic motion picture, a locomotory legwork, a deambulatory non-rural land survey, a casual journeying in...

    Hauntology of the Retrodromomania
  • 1998
    Distorted Movi Sion

    Distorted Movi Sion

    Distorted Movi Sion

    6.51998HD

    “The structure of human vision is the visual knowledge of the world. Individuals do not visually understand the world through the eyes, but...

    Distorted Movi Sion
  • 2020
    Sehnsucht

    Sehnsucht

    Sehnsucht

    02020HD

    In this film-poem Browzan illustrates his experience living in Berlin between 2016-17. Browzan uses collage, still photography, video and boomerangs...

    Sehnsucht
  • 1995
    Prelude 2

    Prelude 2

    Prelude 2

    5.51995HD

    Interplay of toned rectangular shapes, vertical and horizontal and diagonal lines in juxtaposition with hardened darker shapes which gradually shift...

    Prelude 2
  • 1990
    Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave

    Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave

    Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave

    5.8241990HD

    Brakhage begins here with Carlsbad Caverns as a stand-in for Plato's Cave and then responds to the philosopher's notion of inaccessible ideal forms...

    Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave
  • 2003
    Play Dead: Real Time

    Play Dead: Real Time

    Play Dead: Real Time

    02003HD

    An avant-garde film presented as part of an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. From MoMA's catalog: "For the monumental installation Play Dead;...

    Play Dead: Real Time
  • 1970
    Memoria

    Memoria

    Memoria

    101970HD

    Surrendering the mind to the hypnotic dance of fire, a candle's glimmer reveals dreamlike memories, illustrated by flickering fragments of...

    Memoria
  • 2004
    Lebensraum

    Lebensraum

    Lebensraum

    02004HD

    Utilizing approximately 20,000 rendered effects, Lebensraum/Lifespace – Spectacle of Noise is the culmination of Kantor’s digital...

    Lebensraum
  • 2026
    Breath and Length

    Breath and Length

    Breath and Length

    32026HD

    The debut short film from Edward Pettitt, that blends surrealist imagery with the sounds from The Residents.

    Breath and Length
  • 1996
    Prelude 11

    Prelude 11

    Prelude 11

    6.1431996HD

    Thick weaves of multicolored lines and dull-colored blobs play off against each other.

    Prelude 11
  • 2021
    Recurring Phrases

    Recurring Phrases

    Recurring Phrases

    62021HD

    A film about endless processes. Images reappearing. New sentences being written.

    Recurring Phrases
  • 2005
    Big Black Square

    Big Black Square

    Big Black Square

    02005HD

    Short film by Paul Clipson from the Celluloid Sketches & Watercolor Movies DVD

    Big Black Square
  • 2013
    Second-hand Reading

    Second-hand Reading

    Second-hand Reading

    82013HD

    A film constructed from a succession of drawings on old books.

    Second-hand Reading
  • 2022
    All The Stars We Made

    All The Stars We Made

    All The Stars We Made

    92022HD

    A journey through a composite galaxy of artificial light.

    All The Stars We Made
  • 1996
    Prelude 9

    Prelude 9

    Prelude 9

    6.4291996HD

    ...again, is "plein-aire abstraction" as defined above (painted in New York City) – with, for example, even a correctly toned green impression...

    Prelude 9
  • 2002
    Soupirs d’écumes

    Soupirs d’écumes

    Soupirs d’écumes

    02002HD

    The twilight and half-closed vision of the blinding bursts barely reveals fleeting and luminous unexpected phosphorescences, through and through the...

    Soupirs d’écumes
  • 1995
    Prelude 6

    Prelude 6

    Prelude 6

    6.2861995HD

    Interplay of mostly horizontal lines inter-woven with "watermark" forms in a wide variety of tones which gradually tend to dissolve into blues at the...

    Prelude 6