Avant Garde Movies
- 1966
Pearls of the Deep
Pearls of the Deep61966HD
A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s...
- 1972
The First Murder
The First Murder51972HD
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...
- 1990
Glaze of Cathexis
Glaze of Cathexis5.21990HD
This hand-painted work is easily the most minutely detailed ever given to me to do, for it traces (as best I'm able) the hypnagogic after-effect of...
- 2012
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye7.12012HD
An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing...
- 2004
Hokus Fokus
Hokus Fokus02004HD
A filmmaker gets lost in a world of his own creation, literally. He is plotted against by his outer demons, searches for his lost sex scene and...
- 2016
Night Flight: Born Again
Night Flight: Born Again02016HD
Documentary tribute to what VH1 called “the single greatest rock omnibus program ever aired” and Brooklyn Vegan named “the most...
- 2011
Sasha Grey
Sasha Grey02011HD
“For my film portrait of Sasha Grey, I wanted to focus on her expressive and psychological transformation into a cinematic actor, separate from...
- 1971
Rabbit's Moon
Rabbit's Moon6.11971HD
A Japanese fairy tale meets commedia dell'Arte. All in white, the naïf Pierrot lies in a wood. Doo-wop music plays as he rises, stares about,...
- 2018
George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus
George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus72018HD
In 1961 Lithuanian American artist and impresario George Maciunas established the avant-garde art movement Fluxus. George details the rise of Fluxus...
- 2020
Exit
Exit02020HD
Events take a sinister turn one night in London, when two very different couples arrive at a double-booked apartment. Actions have consequences and...
- 2024
The Trouble With Forgetting
The Trouble With Forgetting02024HD
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...
- 1981
Pig-Chicken Suicide
Pig-Chicken Suicide6.21981HD
Pig Chicken Suicide is a veritable assault on the senses, mixing violent images of animal slaughter, racial strife, and surrealism to tell the story...
- 1983
Dream of a Summer Night
Dream of a Summer Night7.21983HD
Rock musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
- 1938
Jack's Dream
Jack's Dream6.21938HD
A lucid dream turned nightmarish reality. A ship sinking into a world of fear. A short film that’s mostly puppetry by one of America's...
- 1987
The Dante Quartet
The Dante Quartet6.2271987HD
A visual representation, in four parts, of one man's internalization of "The Divine Comedy." Hell is a series of multicolored brush strokes against a...
- 1957
Nymphlight
Nymphlight5.51957HD
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...
- 1987
The Harms Case
The Harms Case51987HD
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...
- 1978
The Scenic Route
The Scenic Route5.21978HD
An experimental drama that spins the tale of a woman, her sister, and the man who completes the triangle. Told through such fertile sources as grand...
- 1978
Brutal Ardour
Brutal Ardour91978HD
Experimental film by Manuel Huerga.
- 1961
Serenity
Serenity6.81961HD
Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit...