Avant Garde Movies

Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In...

“Last August, several filmmakers joined me to repair the splices in Markopoulos’s Eniaios. I interrupted our work for a moment; the...

For this remarkable experimental film, the provocative avant-garde legend Stephen Dwoskin gathered together a group of strangers and filmed them as...

In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H....

We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures...

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

Film produced and directed by Ricky Leacock, Edward Pincus, and MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies documenting the Centerbeam kinetic sculpture...

Conducting a series of experiments in his makeshift home-lab, a skeptic IT worker tries to cure his harrowing hearing impairment. But where will his...

Hans Richter, noted for his abstract shorts, has everyday objects rebelling against their daily routine.

The story of Jacob wrestling the angel at the stream called Jabbok.

An obsessive Vine star goes down a road of surreal imagery, as his obsession with the application develops into murder.

A bunch of spectators trapped in a cinema theatre.

Lake gazes down at a still body of water from a birds-eye view, while a group of artists peacefully float in and out of the frame or work to stay at...

A paean to light, a glittering bodice of a film that rapturously unfolds its subject with a shimmering luminosity.

A serial killer stalks a woman he befriended after her car broke down.

This portrait of the filmmaker's apartment, painted in the color of the title, was made a few months before his departure from New York. It...

"The Manopsychotic Ballet" was the last important action by Otto Muehl before he retired from the art world after a decade of painting and...

With this film-manifesto, the two artists invent what they called the Cinéma corporel (Cinema of the Body), they present themselves as a...

Luis Bunuel, the father of cinematic Surrealism, made his film debut with 'Un Chien Andalou' in 1929 working closely with Salvador Dali. Considered...