Avant Garde Movies

Seeing, Hearing, Saying Nothing. Ben stands with ears, eyes, mouth bandaged.

Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die is a 2000 documentary about Frank Zappa.

"Single Frame sequences of TV or film images, with periodic distortions of the image. The images are airplanes, women men interspersed with pictures o...

As Untitled (1977) opens we see whitish blue streaks close to the camera continually appear and disappear. The background is indistinct, but gradually...

Persian Series #11 begins with a "window" of yellow paint adrift in the full frame of multicolored paint-shapes. Alternating black-space/white-space e...

Shot on 16mm, as part of the commercial shorts collection for the 53th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival.

"The once teeming Riverview Park was shut down in 1967 (with Tom Palazzolo on hand to document the bitter end). The Tattooed Lady of Riverview is a po...

The Dreamer That Remains is a documentary produced by Betty Freeman and directed by Stephen Pouliot in 1972. Here is the director’s original cut along...

An eight-hour contemplative epic, entirely starring sheep.

Documentary on Frank Zappa.

Zhang Xianchi is a man thrown into the Cultural Revolution and its afterimage, plunged into the ideological deadlocks of the era and suffering its con...

A hypnotic and slow-burning journey through the austere landscapes of the island of South Georgia and the Antarctic Peninsula. Shot on black and white...

In 1952, Haanstra made Panta Rhei , another view of Holland through the eyes of a painter and filmmaker. Its poetic images of water, skies and clouds...

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 sp...

From the first kiss to breakup, Almy and Hammer record their relationship on a reel-to-reel ¾” tape recorder and microphone. Winner of the Louise Risk...

Picture Perfect Pyramid is a 16mm film which in counter-clockwise spirals, circles a large pyramid structure that was built on the outskirts of Vienna...

Attempt of the artist's detached view of what is happening in the world.

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

O suprematismo. Mayakovsky Square.

Meet 5000 space aliens in 5000 seconds in this bonkers animated film.