Avant Garde Movies

An experimental film shot on distressed 16mm celluloid that reveals various men on the beach or in swimming pools, in various states of lounging in...

Each day after work, Carlos, a language school teacher, frequents the heady surroundings of his local cruising ground. One evening he encounters a...

A "thing" created by Frank Zappa from two concerts filmed live at the Palladium, New York City, on Halloween 1981. With Ray White, Steve Vai, Bobby...

A portrait of the life and work of the great Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, exploring both his music and his passionate interest in...

Profile of the late iconoclastic director Curtis Harrington, featuring images from many of his poetic and haunting films.

The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.

The Mutability of All Things and the Possibility of Changing Some explores our human adaptability in light of catastrophe by way of seminal...

Filmed during a visit to Jerome Hill in Provence, Jonas Mekas sets his Bolex to capture a single day overlooking the port of Cassis. Shot frame by...

The film juxtaposes/compares two museums: The Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel, which Samuel Bickels (1909-1975) built there in 1948, and The Menil...

In 17th-century Tuscany, a church play is performed for the benefit of young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a...

"Chronicles of the Present Times" - An experimental trilogy. New Old flows together footage from more than a decade of his wandering between scenes,...

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

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...

An anthology of surreal films by Patrick McGuinn featuring Vincent, a puppet who is obsessed with Twinkies and pasta.

A spiral design spins. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk...

Super 8mm film.

Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La...

Hieronymus Rivera, a strong force in the New York fashion underground, is offered the deal of a lifetime by Cecilia Meadows, a government official...

Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.

CREMASTER 2 is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of fetal...