Avant Garde Movies

  • 1972
    The First Murder

    The First Murder

    The First Murder

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    Based on the novel "Šta bi učinio Zobec?" (What Would Zobec Do?) by Svetozar Vlajković. It's a short movie about a young man who is...

    The First Murder
  • 1967
    Heterodyne

    Heterodyne

    Heterodyne

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

    Heterodyne
  • 1970
    Eden and After

    Eden and After

    Eden and After

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    A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious man called Duchemin. Once they sample his "fear powder"...

    Eden and After
  • 1988
    Tapestry

    Tapestry

    Tapestry

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    TAPESTRY, part of Lawrence Jordan's "Odyssey" triptych and filmed much later in Jordan's life, is a charged record of his bachelor life after...

    Tapestry
  • 1991
    Plague Mass

    Plague Mass

    Plague Mass

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    "Heart-wrenching cry about the physical suffering caused by the AIDS plague being compounded by the shameful arrogance of self-appointed moralists."

    Plague Mass
  • 1950
    Swain

    Swain

    Swain

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    Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of...

    Swain
  • 1930
    À propos de Nice

    À propos de Nice

    À propos de Nice

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    What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Côte d'Azur, especially its...

    À propos de Nice
  • 1923
    Return to Reason

    Return to Reason

    Return to Reason

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    Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, the light-striped torso of Kiki of Montparnasse (Alice Prin), a gyrating...

    Return to Reason
  • 1966
    Cassis

    Cassis

    Cassis

    6.11966HD

    "I was visiting Jerome Hill. Jerome loved France, especially Provence. He spent all his summers in Cassis. My window overlooked the sea. I sat in my...

    Cassis
  • 2020
    Parental Leave

    Parental Leave

    Parental Leave

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    "Images and sounds culled from the first few months with my daughter, sometimes resembling that of a family group chat, where pictures and videos are...

    Parental Leave
  • 1999
    Cremaster 2

    Cremaster 2

    Cremaster 2

    6.41999HD

    CREMASTER 2 (1999) is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of...

    Cremaster 2
  • 1993
    Tryst Haunt

    Tryst Haunt

    Tryst Haunt

    4.71993HD

    A hand-painted film photographically step-printed so that the thicket-like lines of paint are “played-off” against some centered...

    Tryst Haunt
  • 2014
    Karma Cartel

    Karma Cartel

    Karma Cartel

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    In an urban Indian city, A struggling actor battles for his career, but his friend who loses money in a scam deal commits an action that puts both of...

    Karma Cartel
  • 1968
    Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

    Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

    Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

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    In Manhattan's Central Park, a film crew directed by William Greaves is shooting a screen test with various pairs of actors. It's a confrontation...

    Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
  • 1966
    Shout

    Shout

    Shout

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    Close-ups of two faces, shouting at each other.

    Shout
  • 1997
    Pony Glass

    Pony Glass

    Pony Glass

    4.31997HD

    Superman's pal Jimmy Olsen gets his own story. Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy meets boy!

    Pony Glass
  • 1966
    Pearls of the Deep

    Pearls of the Deep

    Pearls of the Deep

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    A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s...

    Pearls of the Deep
  • 2002
    Fumble

    Fumble

    Fumble

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    A film interpretation of a poem by Vincent Katz.

    Fumble
  • 1979
    New Old

    New Old

    New Old

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

    New Old
  • 2002
    Cotton Candy

    Cotton Candy

    Cotton Candy

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    Gehr uses a mini-digital recorder to look back on the Machine Age in the form of San Francisco's soon-to-be-shuttered Musee Mecanique. For slightly...

    Cotton Candy