Avant Garde Movies

  • 2025
    Mirror of Breath

    Mirror of Breath

    Mirror of Breath

    02025HD

    The roll of 16 mm film of Shahin Parhami's "Mirror of Breath" was among a few rolls given to André Habib by Lara Breistein, following the...

    Mirror of Breath
  • 1924
    Ballet Mécanique

    Ballet Mécanique

    Ballet Mécanique

    6.51924HD

    Ballet Mécanique is a Dadaist, post-Cubist art film conceived, written, and co-directed by the artist Fernand Léger in collaboration...

    Ballet Mécanique
  • 1944
    Witch's Cradle

    Witch's Cradle

    Witch's Cradle

    6.71944HD

    The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost spiderweb-like pattern over the hands of several...

    Witch's Cradle
  • 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
  • 2024
    Seasonal Concerns

    Seasonal Concerns

    Seasonal Concerns

    02024HD

    A triple exposure on EXR 50D 16mm film: two layers shot in summer, and the third captured on the cusp of winter. A collection of statues fading in...

    Seasonal Concerns
  • 2018
    The Sublime of Rectum

    The Sublime of Rectum

    The Sublime of Rectum

    02018HD

    A visually provoking short film about one of the most extreme homosexual practices.

    The Sublime of Rectum
  • 1971
    Mangúe-Bangúe

    Mangúe-Bangúe

    Mangúe-Bangúe

    5.21971HD

    The quasi-fictional story of transgender sex workers living in Rio de Janeiro's swampy red light district, who are joined by a group of hippies and a...

    Mangúe-Bangúe
  • 1968
    Planes

    Planes

    Planes

    01968HD

    PLANES is an exploration of the corollaries between psychic space and the physical escape of consciousness beyond the earth's biosphere.

    Planes
  • 1981
    The Gardener of Eden

    The Gardener of Eden

    The Gardener of Eden

    6.21981HD

    An old man (artist and landscape architect Bevis Bawa) contemplates the Garden of Eden.

    The Gardener of Eden
  • 1993
    Shatanger Aylok

    Shatanger Aylok

    Shatanger Aylok

    101993HD

    This film tell us about intricate attitudes in male collectives on navy. The film bore in poetical form with respect for differently minded heroes.

    Shatanger Aylok
  • 2023
    KUEBIPUTO

    KUEBIPUTO

    KUEBIPUTO

    02023HD

    A punk scarecrow, endowed by life, annihilates its roots and revitalizes its territory.

    KUEBIPUTO
  • 2025
    Digital Smoke

    Digital Smoke

    Digital Smoke

    02025HD

    Digital Smoke is an experimental meditation on light, memory, and distortion. Shot at twilight in Minneapolis’s Loring Park, the film captures...

    Digital Smoke
  • 1965
    Aufzeichnungen

    Aufzeichnungen

    Aufzeichnungen

    01965HD

    Like "Sackgasse", a brilliantly filmed and edited impression of a big city, underpinned by groovy jazz rhythms.

    Aufzeichnungen
  • 1997
    Ten Minutes of Silence

    Ten Minutes of Silence

    Ten Minutes of Silence

    8.71997HD

    The mute documentary-experimental film "Ten Minutes of Silence" is a film expression of the trends embodied in the painting "Black Square" by...

    Ten Minutes of Silence
  • 2008
    Yayoi Kusama: I Love Me

    Yayoi Kusama: I Love Me

    Yayoi Kusama: I Love Me

    102008HD

    Captures the avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusamas creative process as she diligently works to complete her series of 50 large monochrome drawings. As her...

    Yayoi Kusama: I Love Me
  • 1978
    The Scenic Route

    The Scenic Route

    The Scenic Route

    5.81978HD

    An experimental drama that spins the tale of a woman, her sister, and the man who completes the triangle. Told through such fertile sources as grand...

    The Scenic Route
  • 1969
    Stairs, Tunnels and Mirrors

    Stairs, Tunnels and Mirrors

    Stairs, Tunnels and Mirrors

    01969HD

    "1969 period. In the beginning of this experimental film a figure in white ascends spiral staircases and escalators and moves away from the camera...

    Stairs, Tunnels and Mirrors
  • 2017
    Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding

    Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding

    Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding

    02017HD

    "Thornton's magnum opus, this ongoing and open-ended serial follows its two improvisatory protagonists, children “raised by technology,”...

    Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding
  • 2026
    The Garage Stone at the Cinémathèque française

    The Garage Stone at the Cinémathèque française

    The Garage Stone at the Cinémathèque française

    02026HD

    Building as a magic lantern preserving small stories of human interactions throught clear permutations in the editing room, a work that want to...

    The Garage Stone at the Cinémathèque française
  • 2000
    Decease

    Decease

    Decease

    102000HD

    Spring comes every year and brings us hope for recovery and development. But time is inexorable and fleeting. Not for everyone will come next spring...

    Decease