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,...

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.

A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. - Harvard Film Archive

An experimental film that lifts the veil on the world of African American drag racing.

Found film sequences brought together in the paranoia of the cold war and Vietnam.

A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious man called Duchemin. Once they sample his "fear powder"...

Gehr uses a mini-digital recorder to look back on the Machine Age in the form of San Francisco's soon-to-be-shuttered Musee Mecanique. For slightly...

Zdenek Pešánek created the first public kinetic sculpture, for the power station in Prague. This short experimental film focuses on a...

The story of Nisar Ahmed Khan, told through his children and the people he served, a spiritual guide whose followers still visit his tomb on his...

A film about a young woman's future plans in Munich, Germany. MUNCHEN, RAPHAELA (also known as RAPHAELA RING MUNCHEN) is part of Mike Plante's...

Experimental short film.

Avant-garde homage to pre-revolution Russian silent movies, and to the poet Aleksandr Blok.

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

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...

Aquarius is a film about horoscopes and hope, and coping with everyday life.

Short experimental 16mm film.

On the liner notes to Freak Out!, the 1967 debut album by Zappa's original band the Mothers of Invention, Zappa listed some seventy-two names on the...

A meditation on light and water; landscape as self-portraiture.

Based upon the life and writing of literary visionary Danil Harms, a Russian avant-garde poet of the 1920s who was persecuted and ultimately silenced...