Avant Garde Movies

  • 1983
    Adagio

    Adagio

    Adagio

    01983HD

    Subtitled “Eros in Psyche” and set to a composition by Tomaso Albinoni, Lawrence Jordan’s rapturous live action short contemplates...

    Adagio
  • 2000
    Persian Series #11

    Persian Series #11

    Persian Series #11

    5.32000HD

    Persian Series #11 begins with a "window" of yellow paint adrift in the full frame of multicolored paint-shapes. Alternating black-space/white-space...

    Persian Series #11
  • 2024
    Guts and Glitz

    Guts and Glitz

    Guts and Glitz

    4.52024HD

    Audiovisual material gathered by filmmaker Fox Maxy over a decade, including documentary footage, television clips, and animation—sometimes...

    Guts and Glitz
  • 2025
    Zyndagi

    Zyndagi

    Zyndagi

    02025HD

    An experimental video collage piece that investigates the concept of self-destruction across genres, eras, and cultures. Features footage from Abbas...

    Zyndagi
  • 1964
    Go! Go! Go!

    Go! Go! Go!

    Go! Go! Go!

    6.21964HD

    Various forms of everyday motion in and around a city are shown at rapid speed.

    Go! Go! Go!
  • 1967
    Black '67

    Black '67

    Black '67

    01967HD

    Beginning in 1965 with Black Is, Tambellini launched a series of politically charged experimental films that explore the expressive possibilities of...

    Black '67
  • 1996
    Device

    Device

    Device

    01996HD

    Video (color, sound) | Media and Performance

    Device
  • 1970
    To All Your Mysteries

    To All Your Mysteries

    To All Your Mysteries

    01970HD

    An intimate exploration of the ultimate unknowability of even those closest to your heart.

    To All Your Mysteries
  • 2022
    Votive

    Votive

    Votive

    02022HD

    Shifting market trends force the hand of a career artist into adopting a new style.

    Votive
  • 2024
    From My Room

    From My Room

    From My Room

    02024HD

    An unseen character observes the cold, harsh world around them while listening to The Beach Boys, hidden away in the safety of their bedroom.

    From My Room
  • 2011
    Le Guignon

    Le Guignon

    Le Guignon

    62011HD

    Jon Rafman's short features computer-generated renders of the Twin Towers and a narration from Charles Baudelaire's "Le Guignon."

    Le Guignon
  • 1991
    Plague Mass

    Plague Mass

    Plague Mass

    101991HD

    A conceptual live concert by Diamanda Galás, "Plague Mass" continues the themes of the suffering and misery of the infected found in her...

    Plague Mass
  • 2025
    trees

    trees

    trees

    02025HD

    trees and other things...

    trees
  • 2012
    Burning Folk: A Road Movie

    Burning Folk: A Road Movie

    Burning Folk: A Road Movie

    02012HD

    Three slackers from Grand Rapids drive across America in an old motorhome searching for a mysterious folk music festival in the desert. Along the...

    Burning Folk: A Road Movie
  • 2014
    circles

    circles

    circles

    02014HD

    a haiku films, a poem by Nha Thuyen

    circles
  • 1986
    Sophie's Place

    Sophie's Place

    Sophie's Place

    4.41986HD

    Five years in the making, Lawrence Jordan's feature-length "alchemical autobiography" Sophie's Place takes as its inspiration the story of the Greek...

    Sophie's Place
  • 2022
    Making Space

    Making Space

    Making Space

    02022HD

    Making Space is a film about trying to find oneself in the constant flow of change and renewal, navigating through the anxiety that comes with not...

    Making Space
  • 2016
    What's Ours and What We Are

    What's Ours and What We Are

    What's Ours and What We Are

    82016HD

    In What’s Ours and What We Are, images, motifs and words that originally served a particular political agenda are playfully manipulated to...

    What's Ours and What We Are
  • 2012
    WSTYD

    WSTYD

    WSTYD

    02012HD

    Here I am. A mind backed up by delusion of previous condition. Free or humiliated? Who is ashamed? Me or you? It is so hard to share one's secret.

    WSTYD
  • 1995
    The Female Offender

    The Female Offender

    The Female Offender

    01995HD

    An exploration of the space where femininity and criminality collide. The film collages archival footage clips culled from silent films, original...

    The Female Offender