Avant Garde Movies

Frank Zappa: New York & Elsewhere is an Austrian released TV documentary directed in 1980 by Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher, aka DoRo productions,...

Common Mistakes uses four synonyms for the word "mistake" (fallacy, error, accident, and blunder) to present a sample of widely held "truths" that...

Born in Los Angeles but a New Yorker by choice, Barbara Hammer is a whole genre unto herself. Her pioneering 1974 short film Dyketactics, a...

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

72 follows a teenage taxicab driver in Columbus, Mississippi multitasking to keep his job.

Poetry on Film is a moving image commissioning project for young and emerging Hong Kong filmmakers, motivated by the belief that poetry possesses an...

We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures...

A man grapples with his anxiety, attempting to calm him self in the shadow of his idols. As the ideal and the real collide.

A young man wandering naked along a seemingly endless country road claims that he's an alien. So do the three other young men (also naked) who join...

The long flights of spacecraft have been in the past, as well as the chronicle of accomplishments. Snatches of memory bring to us the fragments of...

An engine moves from the roundhouse to a track where it couples with several passenger cars. At 2:10 in the afternoon, it starts a trip out of the...

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

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

The constant movement of the wheels, threads, sprockets, feet and hands suggests restlessness, and this is paralleled by the soundtrack. The unknown...

An experimental four-part short film that shows the outcomes of life through a vacation trip.

From the director: "experimental diy short film shot on VHS made in 2024 and second short film made by amateur film student Lydia Valdespino, it has...

Frank Zappa and his band in a digitally recorded live performance at "The Pier" in New York, NY on August 26, 1984.

In Madonna, Tanaami employs his signature collage-style animation, combining pop art influences, retro aesthetics, and surrealistic motifs. The film...

As the Cheshire Cat once said: Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. This is Electric Mushrooms...

Conducting a series of experiments in his makeshift home-lab, a skeptic IT worker tries to cure his harrowing hearing impairment. But where will his...