Avant Garde Movies

  • 1976
    Hotel Monterey

    Hotel Monterey

    Hotel Monterey

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    New York City's Monterey is a residence hotel, whose inhabitants are older and primarily live alone. The camera, usually stationery, observes the...

    Hotel Monterey
  • 2004
    This Is Not a Time for Dreaming

    This Is Not a Time for Dreaming

    This Is Not a Time for Dreaming

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    The film is based on a puppet musical which fuses the fantastical and historical, transforming a process of historical research into a...

    This Is Not a Time for Dreaming
  • 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
  • 1998
    Watching a Movie

    Watching a Movie

    Watching a Movie

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    A young man, attempting to watch a VHS tape of "Love Streams" by John Cassavetes on his television, is constantly harassed and annoyed by outside...

    Watching a Movie
  • 1970
    Mosolov's Suitcase

    Mosolov's Suitcase

    Mosolov's Suitcase

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    The life of Ukrainian-Soviet avant-garde composer Alexander Mosolov inspires three stories about creation and individualism in the face of state...

    Mosolov's Suitcase
  • 2008
    Yayoi Kusama: I Love Me

    Yayoi Kusama: I Love Me

    Yayoi Kusama: I Love Me

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    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
  • 2017
    async - first light

    async - first light

    async - first light

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    A collaboration between Apichatpong and Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto from his album “async”. The people falling asleep in this film...

    async - first light
  • 1968
    Lonesome Cowboys

    Lonesome Cowboys

    Lonesome Cowboys

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    Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse.

    Lonesome Cowboys
  • 2013
    Going Underground: Paul McCartney, the Beatles and the UK Counterculture

    Going Underground: Paul McCartney, the Beatles and the UK Counterculture

    Going Underground: Paul McCartney, the Beatles and the UK Counterculture

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    Feature-length documentary examining the growth of the UK Counterculture in the mid-1960s, and Paul McCartney's involvement with this movement, which...

    Going Underground: Paul McCartney, the Beatles and the UK Counterculture
  • 1928
    Ghosts Before Breakfast

    Ghosts Before Breakfast

    Ghosts Before Breakfast

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    Hans Richter, noted for his abstract shorts, has everyday objects rebelling against their daily routine.

    Ghosts Before Breakfast
  • 2018
    A White Butterfly on a Bus

    A White Butterfly on a Bus

    A White Butterfly on a Bus

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    She plays an actress. He works as a filmmaker. We are making a film in Xining, Qinghai, China. She says that this is the furthest place that she's...

    A White Butterfly on a Bus
  • 2005
    The World Is Not a Landscape

    The World Is Not a Landscape

    The World Is Not a Landscape

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    A quasi-sequel to Michel Houellebecq's novel The Possibility of an Island, Masbedo's short presents a post-apocalyptic landscape overseen by a...

    The World Is Not a Landscape
  • 2014
    Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers

    Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers

    Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers

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    After disbanding the original Mothers of Invention in '69, Frank Zappa unleashed a second incarnation of the band by '70. This film focuses on the...

    Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers
  • 2014
    Frank Zappa – Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily

    Frank Zappa – Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily

    Frank Zappa – Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily

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    In the feature documentary, Summer 82 – When Zappa Came to Sicily, filmmaker and Zappa fan Salvo Cuccia tells the behind-the-scenes story of...

    Frank Zappa – Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily
  • 2003
    Collage d’Hollywood

    Collage d’Hollywood

    Collage d’Hollywood

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    An eight-minute work filmed on 35mm film, Collage d’Hollywood explores the materiality of the film medium in a literal way. Collage is...

    Collage d’Hollywood
  • 1983
    Dream of a Summer Night

    Dream of a Summer Night

    Dream of a Summer Night

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    Rock musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

    Dream of a Summer Night
  • 1993
    The Experimental Image World of Shuji Terayama

    The Experimental Image World of Shuji Terayama

    The Experimental Image World of Shuji Terayama

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    This four-volume boxset released by Image Forum compiles the breadth of Shuji Terayama's experimental short film work into an extensive DVD...

    The Experimental Image World of Shuji Terayama
  • 1974
    Model

    Model

    Model

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    An experimental film featuring a split screen. On the right, a number of people appear moving upwards - symbolizing the ruling class. On the left, we...

    Model
  • 1972
    From the Notebook of...

    From the Notebook of...

    From the Notebook of...

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    From the Notebook of … was shot in Florence and takes as its point of departure Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks and Paul...

    From the Notebook of...
  • 1997
    The Autumn Alley

    The Autumn Alley

    The Autumn Alley

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    A docudrama about art and creativity; based on modern art gallery in Tehran and its founder Jazeh Tabatabai.

    The Autumn Alley