Avant Garde Movies

  • 1979
    New York Portrait, Chapter I

    New York Portrait, Chapter I

    New York Portrait, Chapter I

    71979HD

    Hutton's most impressive work ... the filmmaker's style takes on an assertive edge that marks his maturity. The landscape has a majesty that serves...

    New York Portrait, Chapter I
  • 1963
    Sun in Your Head

    Sun in Your Head

    Sun in Your Head

    5.71963HD

    "Single Frame sequences of TV or film images, with periodic distortions of the image. The images are airplanes, women men interspersed with pictures...

    Sun in Your Head
  • 1929
    Everything Turns, Everything Revolves

    Everything Turns, Everything Revolves

    Everything Turns, Everything Revolves

    5.61929HD

    A day at the carnival — sensational tent shows where miracles can be seen for the price of admission, boisterous noise of crowds and barkers,...

    Everything Turns, Everything Revolves
  • 1990
    Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave

    Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave

    Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave

    5.71990HD

    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
  • 1949
    The Lead Shoes

    The Lead Shoes

    The Lead Shoes

    5.11949HD

    In "The Lead Shoes", we can neither thrust in our eyes nor our ears to help us understand how time flows or how space is. Therefore, Peterson forces...

    The Lead Shoes
  • 2020
    Watine-Eros & Thanatos

    Watine-Eros & Thanatos

    Watine-Eros & Thanatos

    72020HD

    A music video directed by experimental director Anna Malina for Catherine Watine's EROS & THANATOS from her 2020 album INTRICATIONS QUANTIQUES.

    Watine-Eros & Thanatos
  • 2025
    Motion Pictures are Your Best Entertainment

    Motion Pictures are Your Best Entertainment

    Motion Pictures are Your Best Entertainment

    02025HD

    Television was invented as a result of scientific and technical research. Its power as a medium of news and entertainment altered all preceding media...

    Motion Pictures are Your Best Entertainment
  • 1970
    Belongings and Surroundings

    Belongings and Surroundings

    Belongings and Surroundings

    01970HD

    A love story recounted not by them, but by their belongings and surroundings.

    Belongings and Surroundings
  • 2011
    The Collapse of PAL

    The Collapse of PAL

    The Collapse of PAL

    02011HD

    In "The Collapse of PAL" (Eulogy, Obsequies and Requiem for the planes of blue phosphor), the Angel of History (as described by Walter Benjamin)...

    The Collapse of PAL
  • 2023
    Bulíço Mulíebre

    Bulíço Mulíebre

    Bulíço Mulíebre

    02023HD

    Bulíço Mulíebre
  • 2020
    SOLVE et COAGULA

    SOLVE et COAGULA

    SOLVE et COAGULA

    02020HD

    The ancient Thracian bard Orpheus laments ever for his lost love Eurydice. Having returned from the Underworld in his attempts to retrieve her, he...

    SOLVE et COAGULA
  • 2022
    She Is Here

    She Is Here

    She Is Here

    02022HD

    In the dining room of the abandoned house a white, faded entity feeds on her pieces. Memories keep her here and time transforms her into something...

    She Is Here
  • 1997
    Yoni

    Yoni

    Yoni

    01997HD

    This provocative short film explores women's power, force and passion through an enigmatic series of images, erotic performances and tableaux vivant....

    Yoni
  • 1968
    Plastic Blag

    Plastic Blag

    Plastic Blag

    01968HD

    Judith Wardwell’s satirical take on America’s sanitation obsession and sexually repressive Puritanism

    Plastic Blag
  • 1967
    Black '67

    Black '67

    Black '67

    01967HD

    Beginning in 1965 with Black Is, Tambellini launched a series of politically charged experimental films that explore the expressive possibilities of...

    Black '67
  • 1970
    Shooting Star

    Shooting Star

    Shooting Star

    01970HD

    (1970) color; 5 min

    Shooting Star
  • 1978
    Peripeteia II

    Peripeteia II

    Peripeteia II

    01978HD

    Peripeteia I and Peripeteia II, shot by the artist in Oregon’s rainforest, alone and without electricity

    Peripeteia II
  • 1968
    Welcome to Come

    Welcome to Come

    Welcome to Come

    01968HD

    Welcome to Come, which depicts a somewhat mysterious transformation of the image in the course of a single zoom, was my only film to achieve a small...

    Welcome to Come
  • 1969
    Stand Up and Be Counted

    Stand Up and Be Counted

    Stand Up and Be Counted

    01969HD

    A continuous dissolve into a series of happy nude couples in various configurations: female/male, female/female, male/male, as the Rolling Stones...

    Stand Up and Be Counted
  • 2022
    brushstrokes

    brushstrokes

    brushstrokes

    62022HD

    An afternoon in the woods. Every camera movement a stroke of a brush. An impossible painting. Never completing itself, always starting anew.

    brushstrokes