Avant Garde Movies

This short film made by László Moholy-Nagy is based on the shadow patterns created by his Light-Space Modulator, an early kinetic sculpture consisting...

A ritual of grids, reflections and chasms; a complete state of entropy; a space that devours itself; a vertigo that destroys the gravity of the Earth;...

In this fragile yet frightening poetic fantasy set against a dark industrial landscape, a woman sits knitting on the porch of her home when a man appe...

Explore the disappearing tradition of second sight in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. As we listen to locals' accounts of haunting experiences—phantom...

Luis Bunuel, the father of cinematic Surrealism, made his film debut with 'Un Chien Andalou' in 1929 working closely with Salvador Dali. Considered on...

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 t...

A Manhattan professor's (William Raymond, Larry Loonin) unseen artist wife mocks his pitiful existence.

Short film by Mary Ellen Bute

A bunch of spectators trapped in a cinema theatre.

In this short slice of transgressive punk cinema, a woman achieves accidental revenge on her boyfriend after he cruelly kills and eats the fish-stick...

Described as being based on a play by Talaya Delaney, Kevin Jerome Everson' silent HOUSE IN THE NORTH COUNTRY is not your typical stage adaptation. Fo...

Dinner time in a remote home of a prairie family turns nightmarish when a band of blood spattered outlaws break through the front door in search of fo...

Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to...

Vlad and Sophy navigate their relationship as well as their own struggles with mental health while on a trip to Pender Island in this feature-length c...

Die Schachtel (The Box),1968. 35mm film transfer to videotape, black-and-white, sound; 29 minutes.

Demonstrates the visual logic (and illogic) of sign combining with limited movements of camera for panning and zooming.

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

Hymn to nature, song to the cosmos, Mâyâ builds a world where the camera generates a new type of representation in which the depth of field is reduced...

One film projected two times with a difference of a couple of seconds.

part of the Preludes series (1996)