Avant Garde Movies

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

While playing his trombone one Sunday, the enthusiastic Zero sees Beatrix and falls in love. He returns the next week to express his feelings, and...

A short experimental film; "An hommage to silent movies".

Two halves split by the perseverance of a scorpion. Come on, feet.

Experimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters...

Demonstrates the visual logic (and illogic) of sign combining with limited movements of camera for panning and zooming.

A young woman works as a waitress in a diner. Her relationship with her boyfriend is unfulfilling and to further complicate things she is obsessed...

A private detective goes into the woods to investigate a disappearance.

A lone wind ensemble musician photographs an ongoing performance as she's suddenly joined by a past lover.

(A)lter (A)ction, 1968. Videotape, black-and-white, sound; 65 minutes (director's edit: 57 minute television version).

Based upon the life and writing of literary visionary Danil Harms, a Russian avant-garde poet of the 1920s who was persecuted and ultimately silenced...

Following an introduction which establishes the social context of the film, ‘The Politics of Perception’ presents a one-minute...

A lucid dream turned nightmarish reality. A ship sinking into a world of fear. A short film that’s mostly puppetry by one of America's...

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s visit to Assisi in 1967, this short documents his time in the city known for its spiritual associations. The...

One of the earliest minimalist video with flicker effects was produced in Tokyo in early 1970s. A flickering video with eyes, which super-impose the...

This four-volume boxset released by Image Forum compiles the breadth of Shuji Terayama's experimental short film work into an extensive DVD...

The C-list TV actor Jonnie Zhang decides to change career as an estate agent. While preparing for the interview, he hires a cleaner to tidy up his...

Coming out of an accident with amnesia, Sophie Bauer tries to reshape herself in the eyes of those who knew her best.

A monkey films himself eating bananas for an online audience.

Self shots are the optical Biographie of an unorthodox film producer. Director, cameraman and actor in a person, he directs the camera against...