Avant Garde Movies
- 2019
Lake
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Lake gazes down at a still body of water from a birds-eye view, while a group of artists peacefully float in and out of the frame or work to stay at t...
- 1980
23rd Psalm Branch: Part II
23rd Psalm Branch: Part II5.61980HD
The second part: Brakhage’s layering of images spends less time with images of war, and begins filtering in scenes of Vienna and his home in Colorado....
- 2021
The Contact Enigma
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Three people become connected through mysterious circumstances involving electronic devices which spontaneously appeared in their world.
- 1957
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 a...
- 1963
Closed Vagina
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Adachi's follow-up to Bowl using the figure of a woman suffering from an unusual sexual aliment has often been taken as a controversial allegory for t...
- 1978
Brutal Ardour
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Experimental film by Manuel Huerga.
- 1985
The Man Who Envied Women
The Man Who Envied Women5.21985HD
A Manhattan professor's (William Raymond, Larry Loonin) unseen artist wife mocks his pitiful existence.
- 1961
Serenity
Serenity6.81961HD
Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit and conta...
- 1962
Justice
Justice81962HD
A man and a woman quarrel in the street. Others take sides, and a brawl begins. The police finally intervene and justice is carried out in a manner be...
- 2017
Godzone
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Two friends try to re-unite by going on a road-trip to the forests and mountains. Their attempt to reconcile does not go easy due to the secrets they...
- 1966
Galaxie
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In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H. Au...
- 1996
Prelude 4
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Much depth of multi-colored thickened shapes which appear to be superimposed upon each other, semi-transparent in their "weave" with each other which...
- 2013
The Red Bank. James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks
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This documentary aims to register this unknown side of James Joyce: His Greek Notebooks. Trieste. Bloomsday, 2013. Dance in slow motion, accompanied b...
- 1994
The Mammals of Victoria
The Mammals of Victoria51994HD
The film begins with a series of horizontally running ocean tide waves, sometimes with mountains in the background, hand-painted patterns, sometimes s...
- 2022
Ground Control
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A journey to an unknown star, a children's theatre play, an untalented writer and the fear of becoming the worst version of oneself. A mixture of live...
- 1976
Central Bazaar
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For this remarkable experimental film, the provocative avant-garde legend Stephen Dwoskin gathered together a group of strangers and filmed them as th...
- 1984
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell8.11984HD
In his book "1984", George Orwell saw the television of the future as a control instrument in the hands of Big Brother. Right at the start of the much...
- 2015
Distant Nixa
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The film choreographically covers the distance between two women and their mirroring selves, under Laurie Spiegel's soundscape and with the ambiance o...
- 2016
Wish You Were Here
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Coming out of an accident with amnesia, Sophie Bauer tries to reshape herself in the eyes of those who knew her best.
- 1972
The Morning Schedule
The Morning Schedule5.71972HD
Two college buddies try to understand a young woman's suicide through her Super-8 films and clips from their summer trips together.