Avant Garde Movies

Shirley Clarke's frenetic documentary about multi-talented musician Ornette Coleman.

"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Daedalus weaves a tale of ambition and caution through an ancient myth, set in a...

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

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

An experimental portrayal of being adrift in a daydream.

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

An American Dissident: un tributo a Frank Zappa is an Italian documentary that aired on the Videomusic channel on January 7, 1994. It includes...

Recorded Live in Paris in 1980, this is a rare recording of Frank Zappa performing at the peak of his career with his incredible backing band,...

Short film of a general landscape about the saturation of the city. 35mm.

By light, or lack thereof, and sound, or lack thereof, I’ve tried to disassociate and then return to find something strange in the most...

Lost Boundaries is comprised of footage shot by Julien on location, in England in the summer of 1985, during the making of the Sankofa film and video...

An experimental short film that explores the textures of nature and the gaze of a cat.

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.

Suppressed memories reach a boiling point. An animated tale of longing. “The Experimental section saw Non Films’ Dull Hope scoop the...

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

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

A dreamy, impressionistic 16mm film of light on water, comprised mostly of sepia tones.

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

Inspired by their putrid desire for this butch hustler named Hollywood, this queer triptych follows a clan of revolutionary femmes as they are driven...