Avant Garde Movies

  • 1957
    Nymphlight

    Nymphlight

    Nymphlight

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    A short, avant-garde movie, starring twelve-year-old ballet student Gwen Thomas, Nymphlight is a lovely blend of fact and fiction, using Bryant Park...

    Nymphlight
  • 1985
    Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera

    Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera

    Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera

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    The creative processes of avant-garde composer Philip Glass and progressive director/designer Robert Wilson are examined in this film. It documents...

    Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera
  • 1923
    Rhythm 23

    Rhythm 23

    Rhythm 23

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    We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures...

    Rhythm 23
  • 1997
    Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde

    Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde

    Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde

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    Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet, an essayist, a philosopher, and a leader of...

    Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde
  • 1976
    The Girl Chewing Gum

    The Girl Chewing Gum

    The Girl Chewing Gum

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    At Stamford Road in Dalston Junction of east London, the camera follows pedestrians, cars and birds while a narrator, who appears to be the director...

    The Girl Chewing Gum
  • 2007
    Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation

    Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation

    Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation

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    This episode focuses on Zappa's early 70s albums, Overnight Sensation (1973) and Apostrophy (') (1974). Together they encapsulate Zappa's...

    Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation
  • 1963
    Méditerranée

    Méditerranée

    Méditerranée

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    Pollet and Schlöndorff imagine the Mediterranean as a supernal arena.

    Méditerranée
  • 1969
    The Virgin's Bed

    The Virgin's Bed

    The Virgin's Bed

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    30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. He has spent no time among men. He is trembling with cold. His...

    The Virgin's Bed
  • 1962
    Heaven and Earth Magic

    Heaven and Earth Magic

    Heaven and Earth Magic

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    The first part depicts the heroine's toothache consequent to the loss of a very valuable watermelon, her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next...

    Heaven and Earth Magic
  • 2011
    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

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    An anthology of one-minute films created by 60 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was...

    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
  • 1944
    Witch's Cradle

    Witch's Cradle

    Witch's Cradle

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    The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost spiderweb-like pattern over the hands of several...

    Witch's Cradle
  • 1974
    Dyketactics

    Dyketactics

    Dyketactics

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    Born in Los Angeles but a New Yorker by choice, Barbara Hammer is a whole genre unto herself. Her pioneering 1974 short film Dyketactics, a...

    Dyketactics
  • 1982
    Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special!

    Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special!

    Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special!

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    Produced by Frank Zappa in 1982, The Dub Room Special combines footage from a performance at the KCET studios in Los Angeles on August 27, 1974, a...

    Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special!
  • 1969
    Our Lady of the Sphere

    Our Lady of the Sphere

    Our Lady of the Sphere

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    Animation using cutout animation to craft a bizarre science fiction experiment. Moving spheres, such as balloons and bubbles, are superimposed on...

    Our Lady of the Sphere
  • 2025
    Angels

    Angels

    Angels

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    An experimental horror film depicting two angels killing and teaching a lesson to 7 people, each of whom live committing one of the deadly sins.

    Angels
  • 2024
    Sanning/Lögn

    Sanning/Lögn

    Sanning/Lögn

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    Sanning/Lögn
  • 2024
    The Trouble With Forgetting

    The Trouble With Forgetting

    The Trouble With Forgetting

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    To forget about the end of a relationship, a woman fantasizes about an ideal one. Fantasy and reality begin to melt into one another, but the past...

    The Trouble With Forgetting
  • 1985
    Frank Zappa: Does Humor Belong in Music?

    Frank Zappa: Does Humor Belong in Music?

    Frank Zappa: Does Humor Belong in Music?

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    Frank Zappa and his band in a digitally recorded live performance at "The Pier" in New York, NY on August 26, 1984.

    Frank Zappa: Does Humor Belong in Music?
  • 2000
    Snow White

    Snow White

    Snow White

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    Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert...

    Snow White
  • 2023
    Socialist Realism

    Socialist Realism

    Socialist Realism

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    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