Avant Garde Movies

Described as 'a fairytale with its roots in the worlds of dadaism and surrealism'.

All day of St. Petersburg bohemia in 4 minutes of the film.

Lake gazes down at a still body of water from a birds-eye view, while a group of artists peacefully float in and out of the frame or work to stay at...

An anthology of surreal films by Patrick McGuinn featuring Vincent, a puppet who is obsessed with Twinkies and pasta.

A wordless experimental collage of impressions and moods. Grainy fragments of landscapes, flakes whirl in the wind. Fog and mist, shadows of people...

Hymn to nature, song to the cosmos, Mâyâ builds a world where the camera generates a new type of representation in which the depth of...

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

Preferring to shower with clothes on, they wait patiently for an evening with Winder, a living movie camera. Made as an exercise activity for...

Short documentary directed by Jean Vigo about the French swimmer Jean Taris. The film is notable for the many innovative techniques that Vigo uses,...

An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing...

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

"This film was presented as part of my 1969 thesis on Max Ernst. It was a personal tribute where I filmed his collages, then intercut live footage I...

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...

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

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

In the feature documentary, Summer 82 – When Zappa Came to Sicily, filmmaker and Zappa fan Salvo Cuccia tells the behind-the-scenes story of...

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

History as immersion and dispersion in the fragments of the past, a visionary journey accompanied by the voice of Patty Pravo. Presented at the...

A quintet of vignettes based on short stories by Bohumil Hrabal: an eventful trip to the motorcycle races results in drunkenness, long-winded...

This apocalyptic linguistic comedy meditates on the relationship between language, meaning and social decay and is scripted from "double-speak"...