Movies (87) tagged by 'Avant Garde'
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Successive Slidings of Pleasure (1974)
A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair o...
Little Otek (2000)
When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a stump in the backyard and chops...
Shabd (2005)
The marriage of writer Shaukat is placed in jeopardy when his wife Antara meets Yash. In an effort to inspire his next novel, however, Shaukat encourages Anta...
Powaqqatsi (1988)
An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.
Angel's Egg (1985)
a young girl is the sole protector of a very precious, large egg. her lair is near a large, abandoned, decaying gothic city inhabited by restless shadows. a mys...
Once In A Blue Moon (2009)
Follow one anglers quest to unravel a boyhood mystery as he uncovers the legend of the famed 'mouse year'. The stuff of folklore, 'Once in a Blue Moon' reveals ...
Hotel Room (1993)
The lives of several people spanning from 1936 to 1993 are chronicled during their overnight stay at a New York City hotel room. The hotel room undergoes minor...
Open Your Mouth and Say... Mr. Chi Pig (2009)
'Open Your Mouth And Say... Mr. Chi Pig' is a feature length documentary on the life and times of the enigmatic front man of punk band SNFU. The film tells the ...
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
A traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants, Roderick and Madeline Usher, are living under a mysterious family curse: Roderick...
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1921)
A man named Francis relates a story about his best friend Alan and his fiancée Jane. Alan takes him to a fair where they meet Dr. Caligari, who exhibits a somna...
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
A dense film that cuts up footage of a primary plot of two young Yugoslavian girls, one a politico and the other a sexpot, and an affair with a visiting Russian...
All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (2010)
Zel is a fortune teller. She lives and works in an old house at the edge of the woods. The house is crowded with ghosts (including a priest, a bride, a mute chi...
In a Spiral State (2009)
In the city of Los Angeles, millions of lives intersect everyday, but each individual is still isolated from the whole. A number of strange incidents occur to f...
The Alphabet (1968)
Against a backdrop of bizarre shapes and textures, a small organic figure gives birth to the letters of the alphabet while a mixture of children's voices and a...
Kurutta ippêji (1975)
A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.
The Cowboy And The Frenchman (1988)
Little seen short film by David Lynch is set on a ranch in the turn-of-the-20th Century Wild West, USA is a collision of cultures where a grizzled, hard-of-hear...
Touch Me Not (2018)
Together, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research project about intimacy. On the fluid border between reality and fiction, Touch Me Not ...
Visitors (2013)
Director Godfrey Reggio reveals humanity's trance-like relationship with technology, which, when commandeered by extreme emotional states, produces massive effe...
A Whole Night (1982)
Following over two dozen different people in the almost wordless atmosphere of a dark night in a Brussels town, Akerman examines acception and rejection in the ...
Scott Walker 30 Century Man (2006)
A documentary on the influential musician Scott Walker.
All the Ways of God (2014)
A contemporary evocation of Judas Iscariot trying to escape from his own guilt after betraying his best friend. He wanders into a forest and lost in himself, me...
Mod Fuck Explosion (1994)
West Side Story meets Rumble in the Bronx meets A Clockwork Orange. Bizarre tale of London, a lonely teen yearning for affection and a leather jacket who lives ...
Pilgrimage (2001)
Pilgrimage is a 2001 documentary film by Werner Herzog. Accompanied only by music the film alternates between shots of pilgrims near the tomb of Saint Sergei in...
Zorn's Lemma (1970)
A rhythmically edited alphabet composed of street and shop signs shot in New York City and other elements is gradually replaced by repeated seemingly abstract s...
Stomp Out Loud (1997)
A group of people plays a theatre play by playing trash. Then people and some others plays music in a different way.
Daisies (1966)
Two girls try to understand the meaning of the world and their life.
Dog Star Man Part I (2004)
From a murky landscape, a wooded mountain emerges. We watch the sun. We see a bearded man climbing up the mountain through the snow. He carries an ax, and he's ...
Numéro deux (1975)
An analysis of the power relations in an ordinary family.
People Who Do Noise (2008)
'People Who Do Noise' is a film about the experimental music of Portland, Oregon. Extensive interviews and intimate performance footage provide an intense portr...
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man (2012)
A motion picture composed of brief diaristic scenes not used in completed films from the years 1960-2000; and self-referential video footage taped during the ed...
Container (2006)
Poetic, experimental and different, Container is described by Lukas Moodysson as "a black and white silent movie with sound" and with the following wo...
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One (1968)
Filmmaker William Greaves auditioned acting students for a fictional drama, while simultaneously shooting the behind-the-scenes drama taking place.
Beyond Dream's Door (1989)
Ben's nightmares come back to haunt him and his friends in this psychological/supernatural horror film.
Calla Lily (2015)
An experimental drama, Melanie, who was drugged and raped in college. Now ten years later, she is in an abusive relationship and has a child. A chance encounter...
OffOn (1967)
The human eye, the human form, the human face: these are the three central images of this avant-garde collage and kaleidoscope of shifting and fractured images,...
Origin: A Call to Minds (2013)
Set in the same world as Archon Defender, this film follows the quest of a young woman, Desmerelle, as she confronts Lorem to free her twin sister Phaetra from ...
À propos de Nice (1930)
What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.
Tabiate bijan (1974)
For more than three decades, aging Iranian Mohamad Sardari (Zadour Bonyadi) has worked as a crossing guard at a desolate train station. Through the years, Moham...
Revolution: New Art for a New World (2016)
Margy Kinmonth's new film REVOLUTION - New Art For A New World is a bold and exciting feature documentary that encapsulates a momentous period in the history of...
The Velvet Underground and Nico (1966)
"A Symphony of Sound" - depicts a rehearsal of The Velvet Underground and Nico at the Factory, 231 East 47th St., (loft on 4th floor), New York City. ...
Apocalypse After (2018)
An abandoned seaside resort. The shooting for a fantasy film about the end of an era wraps up. Two women, both members of the film crew, one an actress, the oth...
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1985)
A documentary film about Haitian vodou.
To the Night (2019)
Norman, who survived a fire as a child, is obsessed with light and haunted by its powers.
Pastoral Hide and Seek (1974)
A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.
The Third Part of the Night (1971)
Set during the occupation of Poland during World War II. Some German soldiers, slaughter a woman, her son and daughter-in-law. The husband and his father escape...
Oh, Woe Is Me (1993)
Romance about Simon Donnadieu and his decision to leave his ever-loving wife Rachel.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.
Anemic Cinema (1926)
A spiral design spins dizzily. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is ...
Here at the Water's Edge (1961)
A voyage of discovery among familiar things: the images and sounds of New York Harbor. This film-poem explores the edge of the shoreline, where man and nature p...
Cunningham (2019)
The iconic Merce Cunningham and the last generation of his dance company is stunningly profiled in Alla Kovgan's 3D documentary, through recreations of his land...
Outer Space (1999)
Footage from The Entity (1982) is edited into an abstract nightmare.
Yumeji (1991)
Painter and poet Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934) gets involved with a beautiful widow, becoming a rival of her dead husband's ghost and the jealous lover who murder...
An Optical Poem (1938)
Mental imagery of music is visualized with two-dimensional shapes dancing to the rhythm of Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.
Jesus - Der Film (1986)
JESUS - THE FILM is a monumental feature film in 35 episodes, shot on Super8. The individual episodes retell the story of the New Testament and were made by a t...
Delphinium: A Childhood Portrait of Derek Jarman (2009)
Delphinium is a stylized and lyrical portrait of artist Derek Jarman's childhood awakening in 1950s England. Acquired for preservation by the British Film I...
Bells of Atlantis (1952)
An experimental short in which underwater film and live-action above water film are combined.
Prata Palomares (1972)
While waiting for directions, two revolutionaries hide in a church, where they meet a woman who wants to have a son with one of them.
Emotion (1966)
Experimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters her counterpa...
Narcissister Organ Player (2018)
Against the backdrop of her provocative and inventive performance, Narcissister reflects on the personal impact of her mother's illness and death.
Rainbow Dance (1936)
The film was made by colorful printing of footage combined with drawing directly on film. The bouncy music drives home the message heard at the end of the film,...
Chôfuku-ki (1974)
A dreamlike portrayal of a hangover after a decadent party.
Begone Dull Care (1950)
Abstract images drawn directly onto the film are accompanied by three pieces of jazz performed by the Oscar Peterson trio.
Four in the Afternoon (1951)
Poems narrate four afternoon vignettes; each protagonist is older than the one in the previous sketch. As a girl skips rope in "Game Little Gladys," s...
Grand Opera: An Historical Romance (1978)
Grand Opera marks a stock-taking of Benning's work and his life, presenting a personal and artistic autobiography woven together with a series of events de...
The Scenic Route (1978)
Spins the tale of a woman, her sister, and the man who completes the triangle. Told through such fertile sources as grand opera, classical painting, and Victori...
Shokenki (1977)
A surreal experimental short about man's relationship with books.
Keshigomu (1977)
Visions of characters by the seaside from one's memory are erased by the filmmaker's hand.
Lichtspiel Opus 1. (1921)
Against a dark background, several bright, curved or rounded shapes pulse towards the center of the screen, one at a time. They are followed by many other shape...
Opus II (1921)
As early as 1909, Walter Ruttmann explored the artistic properties of the film. His theoretical and practical work led in 1919 to the first "absolute film&...
Atman (1975)
A lone figure sitting outdoors and wearing a Hannya mask is seen from different angles in a succession of crash zooms and encircling jump cuts.
More Things That Happened (2007)
A collection of deleted scenes from David Lynch's 2006 surrealist horror 'Inland Empire'
Opus IV (1925)
Walter Ruttmann's (Metropolis 1927) fourth abstract animated short in the series. In this the last film he has found a cohesion between the music and the a...
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV (2023)
The life and times of Nam June Paik, the father of video art, who coined the phrase "Electronic Superhighway."
A Bold Voyage (2023)
A tragic story of a musician taking a bold voyage in the pursuit of creation, ambition, and need. Letting life choose for him, as part of the art itself and com...
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