Avant Garde Movies

  • 2025
    Conversation with Two Lovers

    Conversation with Two Lovers

    Conversation with Two Lovers

    02025HD

    Shot in two places marrying with each other by a single and fractured bridge between Condrieu and les Roches-de-Condrieu, this film is the...

    Conversation with Two Lovers
  • 2010
    Casa Loma

    Casa Loma

    Casa Loma

    02010HD

    Casa Loma was the unfinished dream mansion of Canadian industrial magnate Henry Pellatt. A self-made millionaire, Pellatt was derided by fellow...

    Casa Loma
  • 2024
    Running Fields II

    Running Fields II

    Running Fields II

    02024HD

    Fifteen images of a camera running in a park and in obscurity searching the space of light through distorsion and the sensory of rapid motion.

    Running Fields II
  • 1930
    A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray

    A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray

    A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray

    5.31930HD

    This short film made by László Moholy-Nagy is based on the shadow patterns created by his Light-Space Modulator, an early kinetic...

    A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray
  • 2018
    Life in the Shadows

    Life in the Shadows

    Life in the Shadows

    52018HD

    Active elements at play, in toil, and in retreat, seeking peace.

    Life in the Shadows
  • 1970
    Memoria

    Memoria

    Memoria

    101970HD

    Surrendering the mind to the hypnotic dance of fire, a candle's glimmer reveals dreamlike memories, illustrated by flickering fragments of...

    Memoria
  • 2003
    Don't Explain

    Don't Explain

    Don't Explain

    02003HD

    A city symphony of kinetic movement in the concrete jungle. A cacophony of textures, layers and surfaces moving in unison and discord yearning for an...

    Don't Explain
  • 1983
    OK Today Tomorrow

    OK Today Tomorrow

    OK Today Tomorrow

    01983HD

    Arriving in the US with a background in abstract art, opera, and film—including work with German director Werner Schroeter—Vogl began...

    OK Today Tomorrow
  • 1973
    Global Groove

    Global Groove

    Global Groove

    7.71973HD

    Global Groove was a collaborative piece by Nam June Paik and John Godfrey. Paik, amongst other artists who shared the same vision in the 1960s, saw...

    Global Groove
  • 2014
    Rene Magritte: Man in the Hat

    Rene Magritte: Man in the Hat

    Rene Magritte: Man in the Hat

    42014HD

    In this film, Will Young travels to Magritte's native Belgium to find out more about the man whose trademark was a bowler hat and whose apparently...

    Rene Magritte: Man in the Hat
  • 1996
    Assassination

    Assassination

    Assassination

    01996HD

    "Assassination" - Adaptation of Hermann Hesse's novel "Demian". A young man's detachment from and revolt against the superficial ideals of the world...

    Assassination
  • 2007
    What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6

    What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6

    What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6

    62007HD

    Strips of previously unexposed film went into the ocean and these fragments are what returned. In this final installment of a nine year project...

    What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6
  • 1986
    Städel

    Städel

    Städel

    01986HD

    “Peter Kubelka…was teaching at Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule (Städel) at the time....

    Städel
  • 1971
    Mangúe-Bangúe

    Mangúe-Bangúe

    Mangúe-Bangúe

    5.21971HD

    The quasi-fictional story of transgender sex workers living in Rio de Janeiro's swampy red light district, who are joined by a group of hippies and a...

    Mangúe-Bangúe
  • 2017
    Munchsferatu

    Munchsferatu

    Munchsferatu

    82017HD

    Munchsferatu is a painter who has become a vampire by living only for his art. An experimental narrative mashup film with David Bowie, Gérard...

    Munchsferatu
  • 2023
    Cotton Candy Chocolate River

    Cotton Candy Chocolate River

    Cotton Candy Chocolate River

    02023HD

    You and AI at the end of the world.

    Cotton Candy Chocolate River
  • 1971
    Sexual Meditation: Room with View

    Sexual Meditation: Room with View

    Sexual Meditation: Room with View

    4.61971HD

    Directly in the tradition of SEXUAL MEDITATION #1: Motel, this "sequel" does explore further possibilities of nudes in a room. - Canyon Cinema

    Sexual Meditation: Room with View
  • 2002
    Substitution n°4

    Substitution n°4

    Substitution n°4

    7.52002HD

    A psychedelic journey reproducing in sound and images the hallucinogenic experience of an acid trip, mixing original video with images taken from TV...

    Substitution n°4
  • 1961
    Document 6.15

    Document 6.15

    Document 6.15

    01961HD

    Experimental film by Motoharu Jonouchi comprised of both archival footage from the 1960s Japanese student riots and dramatised re-enactions. It was...

    Document 6.15
  • 1965
    Aufzeichnungen

    Aufzeichnungen

    Aufzeichnungen

    01965HD

    Like "Sackgasse", a brilliantly filmed and edited impression of a big city, underpinned by groovy jazz rhythms.

    Aufzeichnungen