Avant Garde Movies

  • 1991
    Penance

    Penance

    Penance

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    All day of St. Petersburg bohemia in 4 minutes of the film.

    Penance
  • 1967
    Self Shots

    Self Shots

    Self Shots

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

    Self Shots
  • 2012
    Persistence of Memory

    Persistence of Memory

    Persistence of Memory

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    Inspired by the collaborative practice of composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham, composer Joan La Barbara and filmmaker Aleksandar...

    Persistence of Memory
  • 2017
    Electro-Pythagorus: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett

    Electro-Pythagorus: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett

    Electro-Pythagorus: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett

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    Electro-Pythagorus is an intimate and subjective portrait of the late Martin Bartlett, the Canadian electronic music pioneer who studied with Pauline...

    Electro-Pythagorus: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett
  • 2019
    Luz

    Luz

    Luz

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    Luz, a young cabdriver, drags herself into the brightly lit entrance of a run-down police station. A demonic entity follows her, determined to...

    Luz
  • 1989
    Clownery

    Clownery

    Clownery

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    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
  • 1972
    From the Notebook of...

    From the Notebook of...

    From the Notebook of...

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    From the Notebook of … was shot in Florence and takes as its point of departure Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks and Paul...

    From the Notebook of...
  • 1957
    Nymphlight

    Nymphlight

    Nymphlight

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    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
  • 1991
    Phantoms of White Nights

    Phantoms of White Nights

    Phantoms of White Nights

    5.61991HD

    Black people, red dwarfs, idols on bronze steeds, shadow of geniuses and heroes. This is not story about Hades from an ancient history textbook. This...

    Phantoms of White Nights
  • 2023
    Irish Catholic

    Irish Catholic

    Irish Catholic

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    Meet Shavon O'Brien: Her family doesn't understand her, her church ignores her, even Jesus forgets about her. With only the spirit of Sinead...

    Irish Catholic
  • 2014
    Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers

    Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers

    Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers

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    After disbanding the original Mothers of Invention in '69, Frank Zappa unleashed a second incarnation of the band by '70. This film focuses on the...

    Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers
  • 2021
    Winter Will Not Be

    Winter Will Not Be

    Winter Will Not Be

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    "There will be no winters" - a film consisting of 14 short novels, each with its own plot and a musical theme. In fact, this is a screen version of...

    Winter Will Not Be
  • 1997
    Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde

    Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde

    Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde

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    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
  • 2008
    A Touch

    A Touch

    A Touch

    5.52008HD

    A wordless experimental collage of impressions and moods. Grainy fragments of landscapes, flakes whirl in the wind. Fog and mist, shadows of people...

    A Touch
  • 2019
    Rouge ! L'Art au pays des soviets

    Rouge ! L'Art au pays des soviets

    Rouge ! L'Art au pays des soviets

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    In the Russian Empire of the 1910s, a group of visionary painters revolutionized the aesthetic norms of their time and opted for radical abstraction....

    Rouge ! L'Art au pays des soviets
  • 1985
    Two Times in One Space

    Two Times in One Space

    Two Times in One Space

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    One film projected two times with a difference of a couple of seconds.

    Two Times in One Space
  • 1997
    Eleven Eighty Two

    Eleven Eighty Two

    Eleven Eighty Two

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

    Eleven Eighty Two
  • 1969
    The Virgin's Bed

    The Virgin's Bed

    The Virgin's Bed

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    30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. He has spent no time among men. He is trembling with cold. His...

    The Virgin's Bed
  • 2024
    Aftertaste

    Aftertaste

    Aftertaste

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    Aftertaste
  • 2023
    Poetry on Film

    Poetry on Film

    Poetry on Film

    02023HD

    Poetry on Film is a moving image commissioning project for young and emerging Hong Kong filmmakers, motivated by the belief that poetry possesses an...

    Poetry on Film