Avant Garde Movies

  • 1957
    Nymphlight

    Nymphlight

    Nymphlight

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    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...

    Nymphlight
  • 1933
    Burlesque

    Burlesque

    Burlesque

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    In Burlesque, the young journalist and film critic Kucera concocted a playful mixture of Surrealist trick shots and newsreel material to express his...

    Burlesque
  • 1963
    Méditerranée

    Méditerranée

    Méditerranée

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    [Here] Pollet made a work that is the very definition of what French critics like to call an ovni or ufo (as in ‘unidentified filmic...

    Méditerranée
  • 2009
    Henry John and the Little Bug

    Henry John and the Little Bug

    Henry John and the Little Bug

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    Dinner time in a remote home of a prairie family turns nightmarish when a band of blood spattered outlaws break through the front door in search of...

    Henry John and the Little Bug
  • 1970
    A Chair

    A Chair

    A Chair

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    One of Takahiko Iimura's (and modern art's) earliest works in conceptual video, A Chair entirely consists of a steady (and usually ghosted) image of...

    A Chair
  • 1977
    Riddles of the Sphinx

    Riddles of the Sphinx

    Riddles of the Sphinx

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    In this avant-garde classic, protagonist Louise deals with a change in her lifestyle in which she must learn to negotiate domestic life and...

    Riddles of the Sphinx
  • 2018
    George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

    George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

    George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus

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    In 1961 Lithuanian American artist and impresario George Maciunas established the avant-garde art movement Fluxus. George details the rise of Fluxus...

    George: The Story of George Maciunas and Fluxus
  • 2023
    Twatter

    Twatter

    Twatter

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    A comedy short mocumentary about student filmmaking. Twatter follows the exploits of Writer/Director Quentin Tarantino (No Relation) as he attempts...

    Twatter
  • 1988
    The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels

    The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels

    The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels

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    A one-hour documentary on the making of Frank Zappa's bizarre 1971 comic musical. Vintage private footage from Frank's personal archives plus...

    The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
  • 2011
    Venus in the Garden

    Venus in the Garden

    Venus in the Garden

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    Mid-summer heatwave. Nikos and Alain, two male prostitutes and a female pimp, Monica, get tangled in a peculiar relationship after meeting in a dark...

    Venus in the Garden
  • 2012
    The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

    The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

    The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

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    An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing...

    The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
  • 2015
    Endless Sea

    Endless Sea

    Endless Sea

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    Endless Sea is a textural, oneiric exploration of the inability to escape captured within the confines of Grand Theft Auto: Andreas.

    Endless Sea
  • 1985
    Topos

    Topos

    Topos

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    During its 85-minute running time, this jarring experimental film takes a no-holds-barred look at the way women have been treated and depicted in...

    Topos
  • 2011
    Sasha Grey

    Sasha Grey

    Sasha Grey

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    “For my film portrait of Sasha Grey, I wanted to focus on her expressive and psychological transformation into a cinematic actor, separate from...

    Sasha Grey
  • 1958
    The Very Eye of Night

    The Very Eye of Night

    The Very Eye of Night

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    Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate...

    The Very Eye of Night
  • 1991
    Psycho Attack Over Soviets

    Psycho Attack Over Soviets

    Psycho Attack Over Soviets

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    Experimental film directed by Dmitry Frolov, shot in the midst of perestroika in the USSR. February 1991. Starring the drummer for the MEANTRAITORS...

    Psycho Attack Over Soviets
  • 1997
    Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde

    Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde

    Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde

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    Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet, an essayist, a philosopher, and a leader of...

    Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde
  • 2018
    UUFO

    UUFO

    UUFO

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    UUFO consists of 6 short chapters/stories. Each describes a memory. Dealing with conflicting interpretations of China from the 1960s onwards, UUFO...

    UUFO
  • 1984
    Sfaira 1985 -1895

    Sfaira 1985 -1895

    Sfaira 1985 -1895

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    A short experimental film; "An hommage to silent movies".

    Sfaira 1985 -1895
  • 2010
    Frank Zappa: The Freak Out List

    Frank Zappa: The Freak Out List

    Frank Zappa: The Freak Out List

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    On the liner notes to Freak Out!, the 1967 debut album by Zappa's original band the Mothers of Invention, Zappa listed some seventy-two names on the...

    Frank Zappa: The Freak Out List