Avant Garde Movies

Distortions and deconstructions of Y2K pop stars' seductive images and iconic hits.

"I only say the sun goodbye." Dionisos captures the existential unease where insomnia echoes and shadows of past regrets linger. As days blend into...

"Dancing is sculpting in time." Diotima captures the fluid grace of two people sculpting time through dance, in a continuous one-take shot around...

A guy named Ray tries to go to sleep and a sasquatch gets into funky business.

Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959, The Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of...

An exploration of two souls inhabiting bodies from 1940's Hungary, and the beginning of the digital age.

After the end of civilization, an aged man undergoes a mysterious journey through space and time that takes him through memories, visions, and...

Although the free jazz movement of the 1960s and '70s was much maligned in some jazz circles, its pioneers - brilliant talents like Ornette Coleman,...

The mind of a prisoner, expressed through various poetic stanzas, corrodes at the same rate as the house they are trapped in.

Ayush suffers from sleep paralysis and dark hallucinations, haunted by shadowy figures that represent his repressed fears. Trapped between dream and...

This live recording was culled from seven September 1992 concerts given in Vienna, Berlin, and Frankfurt by the Ensemble Modern, a Frankfurt-based...

You find yourself in a foreign landscape. Two other people are on the horizon. Something about the world around you is off. It isn't long before...

Shot on July 23, 1968, this historical 16mm footage of Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention at Whisky a Go Go in West Hollywood, CA has been...

A multimedia sex-ed video about life and love in a world where humans have corkscrew penises and corkscrew vaginas.

An experimental short film that traces the rays of sunlight.

Through abrupt soundtrack shifts, this short film jumps between historical political imagery to explore the cinematic language of propaganda,...

A corridor of an apartment is transformed into a claustrophobic and vertiginous vortex that swallows and imprisons you in an infinite fall through a...

Weaving blistering performance footage from Europe, Japan, and the U.S. with a sublimely restrained, intimate glimpse into a world-renowned jazz...

What will happen if the world of 12th-grade students who prepare for University admission is changed to the way they never expected? This is the...

A 57-minute long-form music video illustrating the subjects including magic, the nature of reality and chaos - and honouring the works of Robert...