Avant Garde Movies

  • 2026
    Placenta Mentis

    Placenta Mentis

    Placenta Mentis

    02026HD

    Five people of different ages, professions, and backgrounds, explore madness through collective play and the performance of surreal acts, freeing...

    Placenta Mentis
  • 2009
    Man Painting

    Man Painting

    Man Painting

    02009HD

    The painter Alfredo Romero locks himself in his studio-apartment in the Estación de Francia neighborhood in Mollet del Vallès...

    Man Painting
  • 1977
    The Heavens

    The Heavens

    The Heavens

    01977HD

    "The Heavens"–Symmetrical chaos envelops a lone, topless man, whose symmetrical abstractions conjure up a psychadelic version of DaVinci's...

    The Heavens
  • 2019
    Number Two

    Number Two

    Number Two

    02019HD

    Number Two’ is an audio visual work which materializes the definite possibilities of sight and the existence of light in space with the drama...

    Number Two
  • 2011
    Tape

    Tape

    Tape

    02011HD

    For five grueling years, Li Ning documents his struggle to achieve success as an avant-garde artist while contending with the pressures of modern...

    Tape
  • 2023
    The Black Album

    The Black Album

    The Black Album

    02023HD

    The Black Album places scrutiny on the notion of "Black Excellence" in a revisionist take.

    The Black Album
  • 1982
    No Title

    No Title

    No Title

    01982HD

    Poetic and romantic amateur footage of a young couple in a garden, as well as their travels — several spliced films with different plots were...

    No Title
  • 1924
    Diagonal Symphony

    Diagonal Symphony

    Diagonal Symphony

    5.71924HD

    A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which...

    Diagonal Symphony
  • 2020
    Butterfly 360°

    Butterfly 360°

    Butterfly 360°

    102020HD

    The 360° project tells the story of a peaceful environment featuring a rare case phenomena where a swarm of butterflies is nurturing itself by...

    Butterfly 360°
  • 2015
    Everybody's Cage

    Everybody's Cage

    Everybody's Cage

    02015HD

    In “Everybody’s Cage”, German film artist Sandra Trostel turns John Cage and his approach to art into a tangible fascination,...

    Everybody's Cage
  • 1995
    Prelude 5

    Prelude 5

    Prelude 5

    5.31995HD

    This section is very similar to Prelude 4 except that it is composed of extremely thin-lined colors and sharply delineated shapes which are...

    Prelude 5
  • 2023
    Sea of Glass

    Sea of Glass

    Sea of Glass

    02023HD

    The creation of an infinite space. Light modulations over water surfaces, conjugating into multiple alterations. Time and light being reshaped...

    Sea of Glass
  • 2017
    Scar

    Scar

    Scar

    02017HD

    A girl who was floating freely in the water accidentally gets her skin cut by a sailboat passing by. The story is derived from personal experience,...

    Scar
  • 2013
    Sun Song

    Sun Song

    Sun Song

    7.32013HD

    A poetic journey from the darkness of dawn into the brightness of the midday sun in the American South. Filmed over the course of six months on one...

    Sun Song
  • 1987
    Accidental Confessions

    Accidental Confessions

    Accidental Confessions

    01987HD

    Scenes from a demolition derby event are combined with statements taken from automobile insurance claims in Accidental Confessions. In these claims,...

    Accidental Confessions
  • 1997
    Distorted

    Distorted "Tele" Vision

    Distorted "Tele" Vision

    71997HD

    “The visual harmony of the landscape is disturbed by a screen that allows us to see into the distance (television). The film is composed of six...

    Distorted
  • 1968
    Sonata for Pen, Brush, and Ruler

    Sonata for Pen, Brush, and Ruler

    Sonata for Pen, Brush, and Ruler

    01968HD

    From 1967-71 Barry Spinello made films without camera or tape recorder by hand drawing both sound and picture directly onto clear 16mm leader. His...

    Sonata for Pen, Brush, and Ruler
  • 2008
    Valentine

    Valentine

    Valentine

    02008HD

    A short film shot in 8mm. Directed and shot by Kevin Schaefer.

    Valentine
  • 2000
    Persian Series #10

    Persian Series #10

    Persian Series #10

    5.62000HD

    "Twigs" of color in space, and pure white "ghosts" of them in the background interspersed with dark amalgams of these and conglomerate forms. The...

    Persian Series #10
  • 2020
    Perdurare

    Perdurare

    Perdurare

    02020HD

    A meditation on time and its effect on memory. About the rocks the sea tries to drag away from the shore, towards the ocean, with every wave.

    Perdurare