Avant Garde Movies

Exploring the wit, work and world of Joe Orton through his own words, and the testimony of those who knew him and worked with him.

A reworking of the myth of Hippolytus, in which a chaste youth rejects the incestuous advances of his mother and is saved from death by a caring...

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

For us, a thought always presupposes a society, a culture and above all the consciousness of time. We are haunted by immortality, human notion par...

"A film featuring my work as shown in my 1969 diploma exhibit at Chelsea College of Art. It explores my Mummy Case, then the series of works that are...

Inspired by the collaborative practice of composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham, composer Joan La Barbara and filmmaker Aleksandar...

A loop of a guy in Maine hanging out in his room.

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

Preferring to shower with clothes on, they wait patiently for an evening with Winder, a living movie camera. Made as an exercise activity for...

Dementia draws a woman into a world of memory loops, losing her love her spirit, her present her past.

The first film in Vlatko Gilić’s Sisyphean trilogy, Homo sapiens follows a suited man as he takes a trek back and forth across a sandy...

A homogeneous structure of wind and light across tree branches in the South region of Isère

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

Peripeteia I and Peripeteia II, shot by the artist in Oregon’s rainforest, alone and without electricity. "Extending from PERIPETEIA 1 - a...

(1970) color; 3 min.

Scenes from a demolition derby event are combined with statements taken from automobile insurance claims in Accidental Confessions. In these claims,...

The film choreographically covers the distance between two women and their mirroring selves, under Laurie Spiegel's soundscape and with the ambiance...

A portrait of the life and work of the great Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, exploring both his music and his passionate interest in...

Short avant garde film. Views of rippling water.

The Chronicle of a on-and-off relationship between two young men, plagued by alcoholism, violence, and too many second chances.