Avant Garde Movies

  • 1971
    Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

    Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

    Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets

    7.41971HD

    An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense...

    Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
  • 1923
    Return to Reason

    Return to Reason

    Return to Reason

    6.31923HD

    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
  • 2014
    Karma Cartel

    Karma Cartel

    Karma Cartel

    52014HD

    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
  • 1971
    Plastic Jesus

    Plastic Jesus

    Plastic Jesus

    6.21971HD

    Tom is a young guy from Zagreb, completely without money, trying to make films in Belgrade. He somehow manages to survive with a help of women. He...

    Plastic Jesus
  • 2014
    Fresno

    Fresno

    Fresno

    62014HD

    A film of and through the trees. Leaves catch, consume and resist the light through the seasons.

    Fresno
  • 1969
    The Angel Was Born

    The Angel Was Born

    The Angel Was Born

    6.9671969HD

    Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mystical visionary and believes in the imminent...

    The Angel Was Born
  • 2009
    Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: In the 1960's

    Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: In the 1960's

    Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: In the 1960's

    02009HD

    Here's the most detailed, informative, fascinating Zappa & the Mothers doc yet! Their restless experimentation and agitated social satire come into...

    Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: In the 1960's
  • 2015
    And How Godmilow Expanded It

    And How Godmilow Expanded It

    And How Godmilow Expanded It

    02015HD

    Caspar Stracke replicates Jill Godmilow's replica of Harun Faroci's film "Inextinguishable Fire."

    And How Godmilow Expanded It
  • 2024
    The Trouble With Forgetting

    The Trouble With Forgetting

    The Trouble With Forgetting

    02024HD

    To forget about the end of a relationship, a woman fantasizes about an ideal one. Fantasy and reality begin to melt into one another, but the past...

    The Trouble With Forgetting
  • 1928
    The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra

    The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra

    The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra

    6.51928HD

    This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by...

    The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra
  • 1977
    Glenn Miller 1 (High School Backyard 1)

    Glenn Miller 1 (High School Backyard 1)

    Glenn Miller 1 (High School Backyard 1)

    01977HD

    An abstract, minimalistic showpiece of late structuralist film made up of 360-degree pans across a children’s playground – and to one of...

    Glenn Miller 1 (High School Backyard 1)
  • 1982
    In a Summer Garden

    In a Summer Garden

    In a Summer Garden

    101982HD

    Part of a trio of films that also includes ADAGIO and WINTER LIGHT, IN A SUMMER GARDEN "draws much of its power from the way it is constructed and...

    In a Summer Garden
  • 1972
    The First Murder

    The First Murder

    The First Murder

    51972HD

    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
  • 1972
    Mis-Takes

    Mis-Takes

    Mis-Takes

    31972HD

    A colorful collage, with a subtle ecology theme, made largely from footage from trial runs of programs used for many of the other films.

    Mis-Takes
  • 2021
    The Contact Enigma

    The Contact Enigma

    The Contact Enigma

    62021HD

    Three people become connected through mysterious circumstances involving electronic devices which spontaneously appeared in their world.

    The Contact Enigma
  • 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
  • 1987
    The Harms Case

    The Harms Case

    The Harms Case

    51987HD

    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
  • 2021
    Grid

    Grid

    Grid

    62021HD

    A ritual of grids, reflections and chasms; a complete state of entropy; a space that devours itself; a vertigo that destroys the gravity of the...

    Grid
  • 1977
    Untitled

    Untitled

    Untitled

    01977HD

    "Untitled begins with a flat, out-of-focus, reddish-pink screen on which blurry white patterns quickly appear and disappear. After awhile a space...

    Untitled
  • 1950
    Swain

    Swain

    Swain

    51950HD

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

    Swain