Avant Garde Movies

Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.

In the Russian Empire of the 1910s, a group of visionary painters revolutionized the aesthetic norms of their time and opted for radical abstraction....

A couple stroll through a wintry landscape - Is this a dream? Is this Heaven?

The plot begins with them and ends with humanity. This author wanted to show continuity: the first love and the supposed last is an indivisible whole...

A woman carries a cat in a shopping bag that refuses to be petted. Tired of its behaviour, she violently strikes the bag repeatedly against a wall....

The documentary examines Frank Zappa and his music through archive footage, including unique video excerpts from Austrian television archives...

The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost spiderweb-like pattern over the hands of several...

What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Côte d'Azur, especially its...

Zdenek Pešánek created the first public kinetic sculpture, for the power station in Prague. This short experimental film focuses on a...

Short experimental 16mm film.

Experimental short film exploring New York City's multicultural history through the eyes of three chosen individuals.

A short film following a young woman as she's pursued by a mysterious stranger in the woods.

Peripeteia I and Peripeteia II, shot by the artist in Oregon’s rainforest, alone and without electricity. "Extending from PERIPETEIA 1 - a...

The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal founders of Surrealism, Max Ernst explores the...

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

Endless Sea is a textural, oneiric exploration of the inability to escape captured within the confines of Grand Theft Auto: Andreas.

Footage filmed in Spain, subjected a new visual effects process. Deslaw devoted himself to the discovery of a new machine that enabled film to be...

Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert...

One of the earliest minimalist video with flicker effects was produced in Tokyo in early 1970s. A flickering video with eyes, which super-impose the...

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