Avant Garde Movies

A satirical take on President Salvador Allende's Popular Unity process prior to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. The film is made up of a series...

A monkey films himself eating bananas for an online audience.

A film-parable about the eternal movement of mankind from the Stone Age to self-destruction.

Little Stabs at Happiness is a collection of silent shorts Jacobs shot from the period of 1959-1963. Jaunty tunes (and a somber reflection) accompany...

Ballet Mécanique is a Dadaist, post-Cubist art film conceived, written, and co-directed by the artist Fernand Léger in collaboration...

Traditional Northwestern Indigenous spiritual images combined with cutting-edge computer animation in this surreal short film about the power of...

Quintessential alternative rockers, Sonic Youth, celebrate free-form experimentalism while reinforcing their performance-art driven tradition in this...

Building as a magic lantern preserving small stories of human interactions throught clear permutations in the editing room, a work that want to...

"Images and sounds culled from the first few months with my daughter, sometimes resembling that of a family group chat, where pictures and videos are...

Chapter Two represents a continuation of daily observations from the environment of Manhattan compiled over a period from 1980-1981. This is the...

A study of ruins of a fortified castle placed in the village of Seyssuel during two days of shooting and understanding of the moving light

Collective experimental film by Team 8mm TENGOKU.

Avant-garde composer John Cage is famous for his experimental pieces and "chance music" but temporarily branched into video in 1992 with this art...

"This project consists a visual fluidity of construction, harmony and thoughts taking colors and length from this body of autonomy. Different images...

The faces of a 5:00 PM crowd descending via the Pan Am building escalators in one continuous shot. In old-fashioned black and white, these faces...

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...

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

Polish avant-garde animation in which a periodic series of aggressive starbursts interrupt the melodic dancing of fluid shapes, one raid even...

"Time, forward!" - two orchestral suites by George Sviridov, published for the first time in 1968 (first suite) and in 1977 (second suite). The...

How would a found footage film look if the footage was never found? This conceptual art experiment questions the very nature of film and cinema while...