Avant Garde Movies

Little Stabs at Happiness is a collection of silent shorts Jacobs shot from the period of 1959-1963. Jaunty tunes (and a somber reflection) accompany...

Eleven young film-makers got together to collaborate in this atypical project. Atypical not only because of its technical specs, but because of its...

The history and art of ikebana, a centuries old Japanese art of flower arrangement and a look inside the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, where the...

Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds...

Boy meets girl (or vice versa) and they predictably fall in love to follow the canons of the strictest convention.

A surreal musical comedy set in a world where the avant-garde and the mainstream are reversed.

(A)lter (A)ction, 1968. Videotape, black-and-white, sound; 65 minutes (director's edit: 57 minute television version).

Dislocation in time, time signatures, time as a philosophical concept, and slavery to time are some of the themes touched upon in this 9-minute...

Hans Richter, noted for his abstract shorts, has everyday objects rebelling against their daily routine.

Film ist. 1-6 is an avant-garde collage from Gustav Deutsch, using found footage from various scientific films to explore the properties, impact and...

Flash Passion is one of the very first films that the two artists made in Athens when they took up the super-8 camera and extended their theatre...

A collage more than a diary using images as artifacts that reflect processes. Sounds often come from other rooms, altered by their distance and the...

A new exploration of familiar places located in the region of Rhône and Isère throught an reinvention of digital nuances, a study of...

Short experimental 16mm film.

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...

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...

Tinskani mourns the death of his friend and mentor, Salvador. His partner, Citlali, urges him to attend the funeral with her, but Tinskani is haunted...

The documentary examines Frank Zappa and his music through archive footage, including unique video excerpts from Austrian television archives...

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