Avant Garde Movies

  • 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

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    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
  • 2005
    The World Is Not a Landscape

    The World Is Not a Landscape

    The World Is Not a Landscape

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    A quasi-sequel to Michel Houellebecq's novel The Possibility of an Island, Masbedo's short presents a post-apocalyptic landscape overseen by a...

    The World Is Not a Landscape
  • 2002
    Cremaster 3

    Cremaster 3

    Cremaster 3

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    CREMASTER 3 is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner,...

    Cremaster 3
  • 1958
    The Very Eye of Night

    The Very Eye of Night

    The Very Eye of Night

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    Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate...

    The Very Eye of Night
  • 1993
    The Experimental Image World of Shuji Terayama

    The Experimental Image World of Shuji Terayama

    The Experimental Image World of Shuji Terayama

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    This four-volume boxset released by Image Forum compiles the breadth of Shuji Terayama's experimental short film work into an extensive DVD...

    The Experimental Image World of Shuji Terayama
  • 1977
    Riddles of the Sphinx

    Riddles of the Sphinx

    Riddles of the Sphinx

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    In this avant-garde classic, protagonist Louise deals with a change in her lifestyle in which she must learn to negotiate domestic life and...

    Riddles of the Sphinx
  • 1961
    Prelude: Dog Star Man

    Prelude: Dog Star Man

    Prelude: Dog Star Man

    6.11961HD

    A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an...

    Prelude: Dog Star Man
  • 1976
    Hotel Monterey

    Hotel Monterey

    Hotel Monterey

    6.21976HD

    New York City's Monterey is a residence hotel, whose inhabitants are older and primarily live alone. The camera, usually stationery, observes the...

    Hotel Monterey
  • 2024
    Sanning/Lögn

    Sanning/Lögn

    Sanning/Lögn

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    Sanning/Lögn
  • 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
  • 2017
    async - first light

    async - first light

    async - first light

    62017HD

    A collaboration between Apichatpong and Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto from his album “async”. The people falling asleep in this film...

    async - first light
  • 1963
    Twice a Man

    Twice a Man

    Twice a Man

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    A reworking of the myth of Hippolytus, in which a chaste youth rejects the incestuous advances of his mother and is saved from death by a caring...

    Twice a Man
  • 2019
    Romantic Warriors IV: Krautrock (Part I)

    Romantic Warriors IV: Krautrock (Part I)

    Romantic Warriors IV: Krautrock (Part I)

    02019HD

    The fourth in a series of feature-length documentaries about Progressive rock written and directed by Adele Schmidt and José Zegarra Holder. ...

    Romantic Warriors IV: Krautrock (Part I)
  • 2019
    Rouge ! L'Art au pays des soviets

    Rouge ! L'Art au pays des soviets

    Rouge ! L'Art au pays des soviets

    7.82019HD

    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
  • 1994
    Do Not August, 1991

    Do Not August, 1991

    Do Not August, 1991

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    The film was made in the days of the August 1991 coup in Leningrad, USSR . Respecting the manner of a proprietary parallel cinema with the use of...

    Do Not August, 1991
  • 1999
    The year of the hare

    The year of the hare

    The year of the hare

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    Surrealistic existential adventure to the depths of a life of a human-hare

    The year of the hare
  • 2011
    The Shining: Forwards and Backwards

    The Shining: Forwards and Backwards

    The Shining: Forwards and Backwards

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    An experimental film comprised of Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING played forwards and backwards at the same time on the same screen, creating bizarre...

    The Shining: Forwards and Backwards
  • 2022
    Kaguya

    Kaguya

    Kaguya

    6.72022HD

    Under the impetus of the 75th anniversary of the bamboo top-handle bags, the House presents a contemporary retelling of an ancient Japanese story...

    Kaguya
  • 1989
    Graffiti

    Graffiti

    Graffiti

    01989HD

    A woman carries a cat in a shopping bag that refuses to be petted. Tired of its behaviour, she violently strikes the bag repeatedly against a wall....

    Graffiti
  • 1963
    Closed Vagina

    Closed Vagina

    Closed Vagina

    8.81963HD

    "In medical terminology, absence of genitalia in females is referred to as "gynatresia". In other words, an extreme defect that goes beyond a mere...

    Closed Vagina