Avant Garde Movies

Strips of previously unexposed film went into the ocean and these fragments are what returned. In this final installment of a nine year project docume...

shot in melbourne, may 2024

Electro-Pythagorus is an intimate and subjective portrait of the late Martin Bartlett, the Canadian electronic music pioneer who studied with Pauline...

Beavers shot The Hedge Theatre in Rome in the 1980s. It is an intimate film inspired by the Baroque architecture and stone carvings of Francesco Borro...

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

Without any sounds, dialogues and with unknown actors, the images are the focus of this film. Images that want to awake, to question determinant momen...

A young man desperately seeks out the fleeting image of a female companion, and though he never quite catches her, he discovers much more through the...

In this fragile yet frightening poetic fantasy set against a dark industrial landscape, a woman sits knitting on the porch of her home when a man appe...

The film explores familiar landscape imagery Saïto and Goldstein share in their neighbourhood at the foot of Mount-Royal Park in Montréal, Canada. Usi...

Various forms of everyday motion in and around a city are shown at rapid speed.

a collection of different shots comprised a fictionalized, but highly detailed of the america's west. where civilization meets nature in an illusion o...

Interplay of mostly horizontal lines inter-woven with "watermark" forms in a wide variety of tones which gradually tend to dissolve into blues at the...

An experimental short inspired by the music of Gladys Knight.

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

A young adult's first-hand account of "accidentally becoming human again" after, and with, trauma induced depression. Lo-fi, vulnerable, and uniquely...

A tragic story of a musician taking a bold voyage in the pursuit of creation, ambition, and need. Letting life choose for him, as part of the art itse...

Two men. Friends? Enemies? Lovers? Brothers? One is nothing, success or failure depends on two.