Avant Garde Movies

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

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

For the past ten years Zappa in composing has turned away from Rock and Roll music - for which he first became famous - and has been working on new,...

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...

University project based on a pre-written script. This is an extended "directors cut" version re-edited by Scarlett J. Stribley. Two estranged...

Experimental short film about various Christmas objects and lights.

A tiny bug crawls across an unknown landscape as it continually metamorphoses around the creature. Suddenly, there is a twist.

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

A visual journey across various cities in Chile through a cinematic diary.

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...

"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...

An experimental film documenting a river leading up to a waterfall, depicting both its natural beauty and its inherent danger.

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

Seeing himself as a form unable to experience intimacy, he is given the chance when brought to the household of twin sisters.

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

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

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...

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

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

Thirty-three shots based on the landscapes of the Isère region near Vienne. A work of observation on light, the dilation of Time, wind, calm...