Avant Garde Movies

  • 2022
    Kaguya

    Kaguya

    Kaguya

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    Under the impetus of the 75th anniversary of the bamboo top-handle bags, the House presents a contemporary retelling of an ancient Japanese story...

    Kaguya
  • 2021
    Chance Encounters With Oxygen

    Chance Encounters With Oxygen

    Chance Encounters With Oxygen

    02021HD

    A psychedelic, avant-garde collage film designed to accompany PRPL PPL's experimental album of the same name.

    Chance Encounters With Oxygen
  • 2008
    Passing

    Passing

    Passing

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    A film searching for life.

    Passing
  • 1973
    The Politics of Perception

    The Politics of Perception

    The Politics of Perception

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    Following an introduction which establishes the social context of the film, ‘The Politics of Perception’ presents a one-minute...

    The Politics of Perception
  • 2020
    Sehnsucht

    Sehnsucht

    Sehnsucht

    02020HD

    In this film-poem Browzan illustrates his experience living in Berlin between 2016-17. Browzan uses collage, still photography, video and boomerangs...

    Sehnsucht
  • 2023
    Cormorant

    Cormorant

    Cormorant

    02023HD

    A 16mm experimental short film loosely following a cormorant as it attempts to dry its wings.

    Cormorant
  • 1981
    Tom Tom

    Tom Tom

    Tom Tom

    01981HD

    In 1981, Tomislav Gotovac carried out an unannounced action of being an artist begging for alms wearing a sign "Alms please! Thank you! Begging...

    Tom Tom
  • 1973
    Sexual Meditation: Open Field

    Sexual Meditation: Open Field

    Sexual Meditation: Open Field

    4.41973HD

    OPEN FIELD is in the mind, of course, and exists as a weave of trees, grasses, waters, and bodies poised and fleeting at childhood's end. The scene...

    Sexual Meditation: Open Field
  • 2025
    NAIL POLISH

    NAIL POLISH

    NAIL POLISH

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    A non-binary teen goes on a journey toward acceptance, after being kicked out.

    NAIL POLISH
  • 1987
    The Dante Quartet

    The Dante Quartet

    The Dante Quartet

    6.2921987HD

    A visual representation, in four parts, of one man's internalization of "The Divine Comedy." Hell is a series of multicolored brush strokes against a...

    The Dante Quartet
  • 1985
    The Man Who Envied Women

    The Man Who Envied Women

    The Man Who Envied Women

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    A Manhattan professor's (William Raymond, Larry Loonin) unseen artist wife mocks his pitiful existence.

    The Man Who Envied Women
  • 1930
    A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray

    A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray

    A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray

    5.31930HD

    This short film made by László Moholy-Nagy is based on the shadow patterns created by his Light-Space Modulator, an early kinetic...

    A Light-Play in Black-White-Gray
  • 2013
    A Messenger from the Shadows (Notes on Film 06 A/Monologue 01)

    A Messenger from the Shadows (Notes on Film 06 A/Monologue 01)

    A Messenger from the Shadows (Notes on Film 06 A/Monologue 01)

    02013HD

    Thanks to his myriad film roles, Lon Chaney is known as “the man of a thousand faces,” and you could say that the early horror era never...

    A Messenger from the Shadows (Notes on Film 06 A/Monologue 01)
  • 2010
    Conversation

    Conversation

    Conversation

    9.52010HD

    To the idly meditating musician received a call from his distant friend with a proposal to write a song about the untimely departed Lady Diana.

    Conversation
  • 2011
    Diptych: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name

    Diptych: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name

    Diptych: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name

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    Inspired by the famous gay Greek painter Giannis Tsarouhis' paintings, Diptych is a contemplation on male beauty, the impossibility of open gay love...

    Diptych: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name
  • 2018
    Life in the Shadows

    Life in the Shadows

    Life in the Shadows

    52018HD

    Active elements at play, in toil, and in retreat, seeking peace.

    Life in the Shadows
  • 2026
    Dwijihwa

    Dwijihwa

    Dwijihwa

    02026HD

    Kumaresh, on the run from a repressive right wing party, must spend the night at the home of a comrade who undergoes a strange shift over the course...

    Dwijihwa
  • 2026
    Dukkha

    Dukkha

    Dukkha

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    Dukkha
  • 2024
    Another Stardust

    Another Stardust

    Another Stardust

    92024HD

    A woman comes to terms with her life on her last day in town.

    Another Stardust
  • 2024
    The Trouble With Forgetting

    The Trouble With Forgetting

    The Trouble With Forgetting

    02024HD

    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