Avant Garde Movies

A young man desperately seeks the fleeting image of a female companion, and though he never quite catches her, he discovers far more through surreal...

Footage filmed in Spain, subjected a new visual effects process. Deslaw devoted himself to the discovery of a new machine that enabled film to be...

8 subjects combined explore their physical autonomy and identity, brought together through the movements of Precious Ellis.

Our host Dr. Dramaminex Dante seeks to answer the question: Who knows what the devil looks like? For no one really knows.

Some years after filming AMOR, I returned to Italy and found the source for a new film in the architecture of Borromini and in a grove of trees with...

Born Villain is a surrealist horror short film directed by actor Shia LaBeouf in collaboration with singer Marilyn Manson. The film features a series...

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s travels through Italy in 1967, this short captures scenes from the country’s cities and countryside. The...

Thanks to his myriad film roles, Lon Chaney is known as “the man of a thousand faces,” and you could say that the early horror era never...

"Chronicles of the Present Times" - An experimental trilogy. New Old flows together footage from more than a decade of his wandering between scenes,...

A documentary of an avant-garde theatre performance, presents an orgiastic rite of sex, degradation, and bloody sacrifice, performed by Zero-Jigen.

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...

Images of the uniforms as the Ohio guard is interviewed off-camera.

A new exploration of familiar places located in the region of Rhône and Isère throught an reinvention of digital nuances, a study of...

The film choreographically covers the distance between two women and their mirroring selves, under Laurie Spiegel's soundscape and with the ambiance...

Three adrift artists wander around a college campus and its local sites as they struggle to engage with art and its creation.

The film is based on a puppet musical which fuses the fantastical and historical, transforming a process of historical research into a...

The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost spiderweb-like pattern over the hands of several...

A young adult's first-hand account of "accidentally becoming human again" after, and with, trauma induced depression. Lo-fi, vulnerable, and uniquely...