Movies: Avant garde

The film is an allegory in which the attempt is made to show the inner process of movement of the composer's soul at the time of the birth of music....

An experimental film featuring a split screen. On the right, a number of people appear moving upwards - symbolizing the ruling class. On the left, we see a production line in a factory, where the products of human labor pass by. Towards the end, the ...

Collective experimental film by Team 8mm TENGOKU....

This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by the number 9413 written on his forehead....

Creeping from the halls of the maze brain, corruption and terror is woven by devils born from the denied errors of mankind....

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An experimental short film about wind and sunlight sweeping across tree leaves....

"This film explores how freedom of speech — including dissent — is afforded to all Americans, and shows freedom of expression in art, music, dance, architecture, and science. The film also emphasizes the importance of the individual’s contribution to...

A short, avant-garde movie, starring twelve-year-old ballet student Gwen Thomas, Nymphlight is a lovely blend of fact and fiction, using Bryant Park at the New York Public Library as a stage set for the fantasy inclusion of a certain nymph. A meditat...

One morning, the late Karlheinz Stockhausen awoke from a dream that told him to take to the sky. Stockhausen envisioned four helicopters swirling in the clouds, with each of a quartet’s members tucked inside his own chopper, communicating through hea...

Meet 5000 space aliens in 5000 seconds in this bonkers animated film....

Cracking open the human-camera body....

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

A man tells the story about his trip to Inner Mongolia....

A lyrical story about love and death, realized as a message....

In an anachronistic dystopian landscape, a beleaguered young man attempts to navigate his way through the indie film scene in LA....

"as work in progress: treasures found in the streams around me."...

An animated cartoon about the Creation myth reviewed and corrected by two women. God the magician has decided to create a paradise: Switzerland. He covers it with trees and cows, until Adam is born. After exploring his paradise, Adam creates Eve from...

Initially commissioned to accompany a Danish production of Alban Berg’s LULU, Lewis Klahr’s cut-out animation refigures the opera's themes in a torrent of images. With an ever-inventive approach to color and symbol, Klahr distills the title character...

An eight-hour contemplative epic, entirely starring sheep....