Avant Garde Movies

Common Mistakes uses four synonyms for the word "mistake" (fallacy, error, accident, and blunder) to present a sample of widely held "truths" that...

Anémona and Pisces live a capicua experience: they are at the same time the woman who looks, the woman who is looked at, and the very act of...

Explore the disappearing tradition of second sight in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. As we listen to locals' accounts of haunting...

An engine moves from the roundhouse to a track where it couples with several passenger cars. At 2:10 in the afternoon, it starts a trip out of the...

This film is a succession of visual and aural "notes" generated by the patterns in animals' hides, which are arranged and re-edited into a complex...

A private detective goes into the woods to investigate a disappearance.

An anxiety-free day. Trees, flowers, bridges, the ocean, and people reading (the same book).

A film in three parts: a man talking while a telephone rings, a walking tour of New York, and a goldfish swimming.

Found film sequences brought together in the paranoia of the cold war and Vietnam.

Two college buddies try to understand a young woman's suicide through her Super-8 films and clips from their summer trips together.

A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. - Harvard Film Archive

"Untitled begins with a flat, out-of-focus, reddish-pink screen on which blurry white patterns quickly appear and disappear. After awhile a space...

Frank Zappa and his band in a digitally recorded live performance at "The Pier" in New York, NY on August 26, 1984.

A man grapples with his anxiety, attempting to calm him self in the shadow of his idols. As the ideal and the real collide.

Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse.

A surreal musical comedy set in a world where the avant-garde and the mainstream are reversed.

A priest arrives in a village and give advice and comfort to different people. He meets a wheelchair-bound former representative of the Communist...

A young woman works as a waitress in a diner. Her relationship with her boyfriend is unfulfilling and to further complicate things she is obsessed...

In this meditation on contemporary race relations, two black men discuss in voiceover certain “casual” events in life and cinema that are...

A group of strangers explore their fantasies over a period of five days.