Avant Garde Movies

  • 1966
    Ming Green

    Ming Green

    Ming Green

    5.61966HD

    This portrait of the filmmaker's apartment, painted in the color of the title, was made a few months before his departure from New York. It...

    Ming Green
  • 2026
    XYZ

    XYZ

    XYZ

    02026HD

    An obsessive exploration of the three geometric dimensions in hopes of reaching a fourth.

    XYZ
  • 1979
    The Taste of Life

    The Taste of Life

    The Taste of Life

    81979HD

    For years I've been looking for the means to capture everyday life just as it is perceived through a glance from the street. Twenty years ago, you...

    The Taste of Life
  • 1977
    La cité des neuf portes

    La cité des neuf portes

    La cité des neuf portes

    5.41977HD

    Filmmaker and teacher, Stéphane Marti has been researching experimental cinema as an art form liberated of aesthetic codes and the economics...

    La cité des neuf portes
  • 1928
    Ghosts Before Breakfast

    Ghosts Before Breakfast

    Ghosts Before Breakfast

    6.81928HD

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

    Ghosts Before Breakfast
  • 2002
    The Two

    The Two

    The Two

    5.52002HD

    Two men. Friends? Enemies? Lovers? Brothers? One is nothing, success or failure depends on two.

    The Two
  • 2023
    Socialist Realism

    Socialist Realism

    Socialist Realism

    7.12023HD

    A satirical take on President Salvador Allende's Popular Unity process prior to the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. The film is made up of a series...

    Socialist Realism
  • 2026
    windowfilm

    windowfilm

    windowfilm

    02026HD

    A journey between Astoria and Herald Square through the windows of the train.

    windowfilm
  • 1970
    Sakura

    Sakura

    Sakura

    01970HD

    The plot is currently kept under wraps.

    Sakura
  • 1989
    Clownery

    Clownery

    Clownery

    5.41989HD

    The tragicomedy of the absurd, is based on the works of Daniil Kharms (1905-1942). Trying to recreate reality 30s, who came to the flowering of...

    Clownery
  • 2025
    Flowers (III)

    Flowers (III)

    Flowers (III)

    02025HD

    An experimental short film capturing the delicate beauty of different flowers.

    Flowers (III)
  • 1972
    Sexual Meditation: Hotel

    Sexual Meditation: Hotel

    Sexual Meditation: Hotel

    5.21972HD

    This film takes its cue from that ultimate situation of Sex/Med/masturbation - the loft-and-lonely hotel room. It is thus easily twice the length and...

    Sexual Meditation: Hotel
  • 1936
    Dada

    Dada

    Dada

    6.41936HD

    A (barely) two minute short is that it was made specially for a Paramount newsreel segment on Bute and Nemeth making films in their teensy New York...

    Dada
  • 1926
    Five Minutes of Pure Cinema

    Five Minutes of Pure Cinema

    Five Minutes of Pure Cinema

    6.21926HD

    Avant-garde short focused on the pure elements of film like form, visual composition, and rhythm.

    Five Minutes of Pure Cinema
  • 1968
    (A)lter (A)ction

    (A)lter (A)ction

    (A)lter (A)ction

    81968HD

    (A)lter (A)ction, 1968. Videotape, black-and-white, sound; 65 minutes (director's edit: 57 minute television version).

    (A)lter (A)ction
  • 1999
    Like a Dream that Vanishes

    Like a Dream that Vanishes

    Like a Dream that Vanishes

    5.21999HD

    "Like a Dream That Vanishes" continues Sternberg’s work in film both thematically and formally: the ephemerality of life echoed in the temporal...

    Like a Dream that Vanishes
  • 1991
    Psycho Attack Over Soviets

    Psycho Attack Over Soviets

    Psycho Attack Over Soviets

    4.81991HD

    Experimental film directed by Dmitry Frolov, shot in the midst of perestroika in the USSR. February 1991. Starring the drummer for the MEANTRAITORS...

    Psycho Attack Over Soviets
  • 1970
    The Weir-Falcon Saga

    The Weir-Falcon Saga

    The Weir-Falcon Saga

    6.51970HD

    The term "The Weir-Falcon Saga" appeared to me, night after night, at the end of a series of dreams: I was "true" to the feeling, tho not the images,...

    The Weir-Falcon Saga
  • 1962
    The Sluice

    The Sluice

    The Sluice

    01962HD

    Sky and walls, a liana of water pipes, dilapidated backyards, cracks in walls, cracked walls full of lost, enigmatic children's signs, rusty railway...

    The Sluice
  • 1999
    A Silent Day

    A Silent Day

    A Silent Day

    8.71999HD

    A depiction of a girl’s uneasy state of mind as it wavers between life and death.

    A Silent Day