Avant Garde Movies

  • 1949
    Mr. Frenhofer and the Minotaur

    Mr. Frenhofer and the Minotaur

    Mr. Frenhofer and the Minotaur

    5.11949HD

    Peterson based this romantic piece on Balzac’s Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu and Picasso’s Minotauromachie. The film combines a story of the...

    Mr. Frenhofer and the Minotaur
  • 1970
    Blinking

    Blinking

    Blinking

    01970HD

    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...

    Blinking
  • 1989
    Clownery

    Clownery

    Clownery

    5.41989HD

    The tragicomedy of the absurd, is based on the works of Daniil Kharms (1905-1942). Trying to recreate reality 30s, who came to the flowering of...

    Clownery
  • 2013
    The Red Bank. James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks

    The Red Bank. James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks

    The Red Bank. James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks

    02013HD

    This documentary aims to register this unknown side of James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks. Trieste. Bloomsday, 2013. Dance in slow motion, accompanied...

    The Red Bank. James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks
  • 1996
    DAS ES

    DAS ES

    DAS ES

    8.51996HD

    The long flights of spacecraft have been in the past, as well as the chronicle of accomplishments. Snatches of memory bring to us the fragments of...

    DAS ES
  • 1957
    Nymphlight

    Nymphlight

    Nymphlight

    5.61957HD

    A short, avant-garde movie, starring twelve-year-old ballet student Gwen Thomas, Nymphlight is a lovely blend of fact and fiction, using Bryant Park...

    Nymphlight
  • 1997
    Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde

    Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde

    Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde

    71997HD

    Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet, an essayist, a philosopher, and a leader of...

    Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde
  • 2010
    2012: Time for Change

    2012: Time for Change

    2012: Time for Change

    6.42010HD

    2012: Time For Change is a documentary feature that presents ways to transform our unsustainable society into a regenerative planetary culture. This...

    2012: Time for Change
  • 1976
    Central Bazaar

    Central Bazaar

    Central Bazaar

    7.21976HD

    A group of strangers explore their fantasies over a period of five days.

    Central Bazaar
  • 1928
    The Seashell and the Clergyman

    The Seashell and the Clergyman

    The Seashell and the Clergyman

    6.71928HD

    Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.

    The Seashell and the Clergyman
  • 1997
    Eleven Eighty Two

    Eleven Eighty Two

    Eleven Eighty Two

    01997HD

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

    Eleven Eighty Two
  • 2016
    The Dog

    The Dog

    The Dog

    82016HD

    Director Lam Can-Zhao leads a small film crew as they shoot a film about a stray dog in the streets of Guangzhou, leading viewers into an...

    The Dog
  • 1980
    Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere

    Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere

    Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere

    01980HD

    Frank Zappa: New York & Elsewhere is an Austrian released TV documentary directed in 1980 by Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher, aka DoRo productions,...

    Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere
  • 2026
    Mismantler

    Mismantler

    Mismantler

    02026HD

    A dark, stream of consciousness fever dream, gathering all that is decrepit in this world, and reflecting it all back to those who have reduced the...

    Mismantler
  • 2026
    AFFECTLESS

    AFFECTLESS

    AFFECTLESS

    02026HD

    The fire was never threatened. It was assumed. Fed, protected, mourned in advance without ever asking what it was attached to. When the mirror...

    AFFECTLESS
  • 2010
    Frank Zappa: The Freak Out List

    Frank Zappa: The Freak Out List

    Frank Zappa: The Freak Out List

    02010HD

    On the liner notes to Freak Out!, the 1967 debut album by Zappa's original band the Mothers of Invention, Zappa listed some seventy-two names on the...

    Frank Zappa: The Freak Out List
  • 1997
    The Autumn Alley

    The Autumn Alley

    The Autumn Alley

    91997HD

    A docudrama about art and creativity; based on modern art gallery in Tehran and its founder Jazeh Tabatabai.

    The Autumn Alley
  • 1987
    The Harms Case

    The Harms Case

    The Harms Case

    6.31987HD

    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...

    The Harms Case
  • 2001
    The Granny's Apocrypha

    The Granny's Apocrypha

    The Granny's Apocrypha

    102001HD

    Saw and imagined in the children's fantasy the story of grandmother of Christ and the Apostles a little girl. Today few people remember that just a...

    The Granny's Apocrypha
  • 1967
    Heterodyne

    Heterodyne

    Heterodyne

    51967HD

    “Geometric animation made entirely by sculptural methods: cutting, punching, welding colored leader. HETERODYNE is related to some of my other...

    Heterodyne