Avant Garde Movies

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

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...

A small girl's nightmare. Untitled No.1 is part of Mike Plante's Lunchfilm series of commissioned shorts (made for the cost of a lunch between Plante...

A young bride flees the ceremony with a stranger and, together, they set off on an epic journey though increasingly bizarre lands. They encounter...

"In medical terminology, absence of genitalia in females is referred to as "gynatresia". In other words, an extreme defect that goes beyond a mere...

Paper-Scissor-Rock wars draws an episode where the two generals portray the Second World War, mostly through the rock-scissors-bag, but also by some...

Features four distinct, bizarre, existential tales about people whose lives are in transition, who are each asking questions about themselves, their...

A couple stroll through a wintry landscape - Is this a dream? Is this Heaven?

While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother...

An experimental short film.

Sportello Quattro, filmed during a residency at the American Academy in Rome, is about immigration, work and community among people of color in...

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

A man comes home to find a mysterious box on his living room floor.

A three-dimensional narrative enacted at the California Poppy Reserve. It’s part of Mike Plante's Lunchfilm series of commissioned shorts (made...

A cinematic meeting point between nature and technology, Doug Aitken’s unearthly short is enfolded in evocative hymns whose voices are eerily...

A woman carries a cat in a shopping bag that refuses to be petted. Tired of its behaviour, she violently strikes the bag repeatedly against a wall....

Peterson based this romantic piece on Balzac’s Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu and Picasso’s Minotauromachie. The film combines a story of the...

A disgruntled bank teller’s system before the mornings commute.

Several fragments of one day in Leningrad in the autumn of 1989, refracted in the imagination of the artist.