Avant Garde Movies

16mm film by Bojan Jovanović.

(1970) color; 3 min.

"Like a Dream That Vanishes" continues Sternberg’s work in film both thematically and formally: the ephemerality of life echoed in the temporal...

Frank Scheffer's (collage like) documentary on the American composer and rock guitarist Frank Zappa, as broadcast by VPRO in the Netherlands April...

A Manhattan professor's (William Raymond, Larry Loonin) unseen artist wife mocks his pitiful existence.

In 1967, Knowles, a Fluxus artist, composed one of the first computerized poems, written in Fortran code, with randomly assembled verses. (An...

Architectural distortions of the second city.

Two halves split by the perseverance of a scorpion. Come on, feet.

A young woman watches TV with her cat in the room. A dying man explores what's left of his psyche.

A portrait of a recently vacated home, the film evokes both memory and the lingering presence of past inhabitants. Through precise, enigmatic...

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 first part depicts the heroine's toothache consequent to the loss of a very valuable watermelon, her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next...

A movie by Jon Jost, who is the maestro of the American experimental movie world. The film tells us the strange incidents that happen in the ruined...

The Chronicle of a on-and-off relationship between two young men, plagued by alcoholism, violence, and too many second chances.

A piano player is able to perform a Chopin piece backwards and Galeta will film it backwards and forwards creating four different variations of a...

The film is based on a puppet musical which fuses the fantastical and historical, transforming a process of historical research into a...

Events take a sinister turn one night in London, when two very different couples arrive at a double-booked apartment. Actions have consequences and...

Building as a magic lantern preserving small stories of human interactions throught clear permutations in the editing room, a work that want to...