Avant Garde Movies

"The Heavens"–Symmetrical chaos envelops a lone, topless man, whose symmetrical abstractions conjure up a psychadelic version of DaVinci's...

Caspar Stracke replicates Jill Godmilow's replica of Harun Faroci's film "Inextinguishable Fire."

Set to music by Beethoven, this lyrical portrait moves from a chilled and misty exterior to the crystalline interior of the Swiss chateau that King...

Conceived in 1922, conceptual design published in "De Stijl Nr. 5" (1923), but not realised until 1959.

In an abandoned, timeless government archive, an unprecedented case is opened: the trial of "The Future" on charges of existential fraud against...

Maria Lang is my very close filmmaker friend who lives in the southern german countryside. We see her gardening and visiting an exhibition of female...

A depiction of a girl’s uneasy state of mind as it wavers between life and death.

“Sequences of space-time manipulation that raise the problem of continuity in the shot.” - Yo Ota

Experimental short film of colors and lights. Silence.

An eight-hour contemplative epic, entirely starring sheep.

Portrait of the streets from downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul.

One of Paik’s most overtly political and poignant statements, Guadalcanal Requiem is a performance/documentary collage that confronts history,...

You're waiting,aren't you?

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

This hand-painted work is easily the most minutely detailed ever given to me to do, for it traces (as best I'm able) the hypnagogic after-effect of...

In December, 1941, using music by Stravinsky, this film provides a reaction to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. An egg is smashed by a hammer;...

Druga linija aka The Other Line is a product of many years of research of neo-avant-garde cultural and art scene in Novi Sad, Serbia (late 60s and...

Psyche 1947, made while a student at USC, shows Markopoulos’ developing style and his sensuous use of colour and composition. Shot in the...

An essay on the brutality of beauty and innocence in a hostile world.

The pantomime of two characters exchanging roles is accompanied by a three-layered phonogram, where sophisticated narrative text is interrupted by...