Avant Garde Movies
- 1957
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...
- 1985
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...
- 1923
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...
- 1997
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...
- 1976
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...
- 2007
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...
- 1963
Méditerranée
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Pollet and Schlöndorff imagine the Mediterranean as a supernal arena.
- 1969
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...
- 1962
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...
- 2011
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...
- 1944
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...
- 1974
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...
- 1982
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...
- 1969
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...
- 2025
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.
- 2024
Sanning/Lögn
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- 2024
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...
- 1985
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.
- 2000
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...
- 2023
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...