Avant Garde Movies

  • 2010
    The Birth of Music

    The Birth of Music

    The Birth of Music

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    The film is an allegory in which the attempt is made to show the inner process of movement of the composer's soul at the time of the birth of music.

    The Birth of Music
  • 2017
    Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding

    Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding

    Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding

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    "Thornton's magnum opus, this ongoing and open-ended serial follows its two improvisatory protagonists, children “raised by technology,”...

    Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding
  • 1965
    Vinyl

    Vinyl

    Vinyl

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

    Vinyl
  • 2000
    Decease

    Decease

    Decease

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    Spring comes every year and brings us hope for recovery and development. But time is inexorable and fleeting. Not for everyone will come next spring...

    Decease
  • 1977
    Glenn Miller 1 (High School Backyard 1)

    Glenn Miller 1 (High School Backyard 1)

    Glenn Miller 1 (High School Backyard 1)

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    An abstract, minimalistic showpiece of late structuralist film made up of 360-degree pans across a children’s playground – and to one of...

    Glenn Miller 1 (High School Backyard 1)
  • 2021
    The House of Dust

    The House of Dust

    The House of Dust

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    In 1967, Knowles, a Fluxus artist, composed one of the first computerized poems, written in Fortran code, with randomly assembled verses. (An...

    The House of Dust
  • 1955
    Orchard Street

    Orchard Street

    Orchard Street

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    This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.

    Orchard Street
  • 1970
    Bedfellows for a Century

    Bedfellows for a Century

    Bedfellows for a Century

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    Three lonely young people, adrift in an abandoned and isolated house, search for ways to satisfy their desires but remain uncertain of what they...

    Bedfellows for a Century
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1977
    Visual Logic (and Illogic)

    Visual Logic (and Illogic)

    Visual Logic (and Illogic)

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    Demonstrates the visual logic (and illogic) of sign combining with limited movements of camera for panning and zooming.

    Visual Logic (and Illogic)
  • 1990
    New York Portrait, Chapter III

    New York Portrait, Chapter III

    New York Portrait, Chapter III

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    "[Hutton’s] latest urban film, New York Portrait, Chapter III, takes on a unique tone in relation to Hutton’s ongoing exploration of...

    New York Portrait, Chapter III
  • 1966
    Pearls of the Deep

    Pearls of the Deep

    Pearls of the Deep

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    A quintet of vignettes based on short stories by Bohumil Hrabal: an eventful trip to the motorcycle races results in drunkenness, long-winded...

    Pearls of the Deep
  • 2015
    They Had It Coming

    They Had It Coming

    They Had It Coming

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    A movie by Jon Jost, who is the maestro of the American experimental movie world. The film tells us the strange incidents that happen in the ruined...

    They Had It Coming
  • 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
  • 2010
    Me, Myself, and My Third Eye: 4 Enlightened Stories For 1 Imperfect God

    Me, Myself, and My Third Eye: 4 Enlightened Stories For 1 Imperfect God

    Me, Myself, and My Third Eye: 4 Enlightened Stories For 1 Imperfect God

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    Features four distinct, bizarre, existential tales about people whose lives are in transition, who are each asking questions about themselves, their...

    Me, Myself, and My Third Eye: 4 Enlightened Stories For 1 Imperfect God
  • 2009
    House of Harrington

    House of Harrington

    House of Harrington

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    Profile of the late iconoclastic director Curtis Harrington, featuring images from many of his poetic and haunting films.

    House of Harrington
  • 2014
    Intransit

    Intransit

    Intransit

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    A thrillingly lo-fi salute to the old-school, hand-crafted special effects that were once a mainstay of pre-CGI science-fiction films.

    Intransit
  • 2023
    Tarta

    Tarta

    Tarta

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    Christmas Eve in rapid camera.

    Tarta
  • 2025
    In Dreams

    In Dreams

    In Dreams

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    A couple stroll through a wintry landscape - Is this a dream? Is this Heaven?

    In Dreams