Avant Garde Movies

  • 2016
    Night Flight: Born Again

    Night Flight: Born Again

    Night Flight: Born Again

    02016HD

    Documentary tribute to what VH1 called “the single greatest rock omnibus program ever aired” and Brooklyn Vegan named “the most...

    Night Flight: Born Again
  • 1988
    Tales from the Gimli Hospital

    Tales from the Gimli Hospital

    Tales from the Gimli Hospital

    6.0541988HD

    While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother...

    Tales from the Gimli Hospital
  • 2023
    Socialist Realism

    Socialist Realism

    Socialist Realism

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    A satirical take on President Salvador Allende's Popular Unity process prior to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. The film is made up of a series...

    Socialist Realism
  • 2007
    Matouqin Nocturne

    Matouqin Nocturne

    Matouqin Nocturne

    02007HD

    A baby, John, who was abandoned in the church with a horse-headed koto on his side. His grandfather was once a Morin Khuur player and died in the...

    Matouqin Nocturne
  • 1975
    Atman

    Atman

    Atman

    6.6561975HD

    ĀTMAN is a visual tour-de-force based on the idea of the subject at the centre of the circle created by camera positions (480 such positions)....

    Atman
  • 2012
    The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

    The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

    The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

    7.0672012HD

    An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing...

    The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
  • 2011
    Sasha Grey

    Sasha Grey

    Sasha Grey

    02011HD

    “For my film portrait of Sasha Grey, I wanted to focus on her expressive and psychological transformation into a cinematic actor, separate from...

    Sasha Grey
  • 1998
    Sombre

    Sombre

    Sombre

    6.4291998HD

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

    Sombre
  • 1988
    The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels

    The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels

    The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels

    7.51988HD

    A one-hour documentary on the making of Frank Zappa's bizarre 1971 comic musical. Vintage private footage from Frank's personal archives plus...

    The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
  • 1923
    Return to Reason

    Return to Reason

    Return to Reason

    6.31923HD

    Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, the light-striped torso of Kiki of Montparnasse (Alice Prin), a gyrating...

    Return to Reason
  • 1966
    Pearls of the Deep

    Pearls of the Deep

    Pearls of the Deep

    61966HD

    A manifesto of sorts for the Czech New Wave, this five-part anthology shows off the breadth of expression and the versatility of the movement’s...

    Pearls of the Deep
  • 1997
    Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde

    Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde

    Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde

    01997HD

    Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet, an essayist, a philosopher, and a leader of...

    Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde
  • 2011
    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

    3.82011HD

    An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was...

    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
  • 2024
    The Trouble With Forgetting

    The Trouble With Forgetting

    The Trouble With Forgetting

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    To forget about the end of a relationship, a woman fantasizes about an ideal one. Fantasy and reality begin to melt into one another, but the past...

    The Trouble With Forgetting
  • 1974
    The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown

    The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown

    The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown

    4.91974HD

    A very personal interpretation, to say the least, of the passion of the Christ According to St. John.

    The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown
  • 2012
    Open Eyes

    Open Eyes

    Open Eyes

    52012HD

    Collective experimental film by Team 8mm TENGOKU.

    Open Eyes
  • 2024
    HOLGER

    HOLGER

    HOLGER

    02024HD

    Described as 'a fairytale with its roots in the worlds of dadaism and surrealism'.

    HOLGER
  • 1950
    Mirror of Holland

    Mirror of Holland

    Mirror of Holland

    6.11950HD

    In this short film Bert Haanstra gives his vision - from the water – of a tranquil Holland. During filming he held the camera upside down and...

    Mirror of Holland
  • 1944
    At Land

    At Land

    At Land

    7.241944HD

    A woman washes up on a beach and embarks on a surreal journey, encountering others and fragmented versions of herself in a quest for identity.

    At Land
  • 2025
    Faceless & Bound

    Faceless & Bound

    Faceless & Bound

    02025HD

    An experimental non-linear horror film portraying several surreal scenes of grotesque and violent acts

    Faceless & Bound