Avant Garde Movies

  • 2006
    KOCHAB

    KOCHAB

    KOCHAB

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    A road movie shot in Morocco, KOCHAB also serves as a long-form music video. It features five tracks from Kahimi's latest album, NUNKI.

    KOCHAB
  • 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
  • 1963
    GHOST REV

    GHOST REV

    GHOST REV

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    1965, black- and-white, 8 min., double-screen projection.

    GHOST REV
  • 1975
    Atman

    Atman

    Atman

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    ĀTMAN is a visual tour-de-force based on the idea of the subject at the centre of the circle created by camera positions (480 such positions)....

    Atman
  • 1973
    Dalmas

    Dalmas

    Dalmas

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    Bert Deling's surreal, button-pushing and hallucinogenic paean to the emerging possibilities of avant-garde and homemade filmmaking. Telling the tale...

    Dalmas
  • 1950
    Swain

    Swain

    Swain

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    Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of...

    Swain
  • 1989
    Natural History

    Natural History

    Natural History

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    The parents of an adult infant named "Child", played by Todd Haynes, attempt to expel him from their home, by casting magical spell seen in a...

    Natural History
  • 1986
    I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like

    I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like

    I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like

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    "I Do Not Know What It Is that I Am Like" juxtaposes images of animals, both wild and domestic, and natural environments with human activity as it...

    I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like
  • 1965
    Vinyl

    Vinyl

    Vinyl

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    Andy Warhol’s screen adaptation of Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange”.

    Vinyl
  • 1993
    Three Homerics

    Three Homerics

    Three Homerics

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    This film is composed of three sections created to accompany a piece of music (by Barbara Feldman) on a Homeric poem.

    Three Homerics
  • 1928
    The Love of Zero

    The Love of Zero

    The Love of Zero

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    While playing his trombone one Sunday, the enthusiastic Zero sees Beatrix and falls in love. He returns the next week to express his feelings, and...

    The Love of Zero
  • 2014
    Everlasting Love

    Everlasting Love

    Everlasting Love

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    Each day after work, Carlos, a language school teacher, frequents the heady surroundings of his local cruising ground. One evening he encounters a...

    Everlasting Love
  • 1962
    Prelude: Dog Star Man

    Prelude: Dog Star Man

    Prelude: Dog Star Man

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    A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an...

    Prelude: Dog Star Man
  • 1969
    Songs

    Songs

    Songs

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    a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage

    Songs
  • 2020
    Lensface

    Lensface

    Lensface

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    After encountering Lensface at the 2019 Unnamed Footage Festival, Filmmaker Travis Z. (Cabin Fever 2016, The Midnight Man) became obsessed with the...

    Lensface
  • 1968
    Der Schachtel

    Der Schachtel

    Der Schachtel

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    Die Schachtel (The Box), 1968. 35mm film transfer to videotape, black-and-white, sound; 29 minutes.

    Der Schachtel
  • 1974
    The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown

    The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown

    The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown

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    A very personal interpretation, to say the least, of the passion of the Christ According to St. John.

    The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown
  • 1967
    Bliss

    Bliss

    Bliss

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    The first film made by Markopoulos after moving to Europe, Bliss was shot over the course of two days using only available light to create a lyrical...

    Bliss
  • 2011
    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

    3.82011HD

    An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was...

    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
  • 2007
    Frank Zappa: A Pioneer of the Future of Music

    Frank Zappa: A Pioneer of the Future of Music

    Frank Zappa: A Pioneer of the Future of Music

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    Frank Scheffer's (collage like) documentary on the American composer and rock guitarist Frank Zappa, as broadcast by VPRO in the Netherlands April...

    Frank Zappa: A Pioneer of the Future of Music