Movies: Avant garde

Bored with her mundane life, aspiring writer Lucy Simon embarks on a psychedelic road trip to the planet Mars with her brash, unnamed drug dealer behind the wheel. Danger, thrills and cosmic wonder ensues in this existential adventure presented entir...

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 collective's first experimental feature film The Passion of Remembrance (1986), which he co-directed...

"Dancing is sculpting in time." Diotima captures the fluid grace of two people sculpting time through dance, in a continuous one-take shot around Indy Simin's "Echt in Vorm." Their movements inside, around, and upon the sculpture reveal a simple unit...

Experimental short film of various abstract and everyday moments....

Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mystical visionary and believes in the imminent coming of a purifying angel. Urtiga, his inseparable companion, is a simple-minded and ingenious man who ...

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

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 newly restored from the Vault! The film has been newly synced to the 2023 mixes, marking the first time i...

Short film shot in southern Chile, appreciating its landscapes with an experimental visual objective....

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, contemporary, orchestral electronic music; in solitude and beyond any commercial conventions or commi...

Impressionism and expression of a view, Mavy uses fragments of the ocean landscapes of Alice Guy's studies through fluctuations of bright nuances and an imitation of these tormented waves in the eyes of a modern camera...

Inspired by their putrid desire for this butch hustler named Hollywood, this queer triptych follows a clan of revolutionary femmes as they are driven to righteous violence. It’s pro-drug anti-fascist queer propaganda in gorgeous Super 8mm!...

A multimedia sex-ed video about life and love in a world where humans have corkscrew penises and corkscrew vaginas....

Ayush suffers from sleep paralysis and dark hallucinations, haunted by shadowy figures that represent his repressed fears. Trapped between dream and reality, he confronts these manifestations of his inner turmoil....

Suppressed memories reach a boiling point. An animated tale of longing. “The Experimental section saw Non Films’ Dull Hope scoop the premier place as category winner. Half animation and half movie footage, this hybrid resonated very much with the ju...

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

Time passes. Life flows. Nature completes an entire cycle of life and death. Eve and Adam reinterpret and correct the myth of the tree of knowledge: the forbidden fruit makes us wise. As the earth revolves around the sun, the camera captures a baroq...

Moving through its five parts, the work describes a cycle of birth through to death, depicting both an eternal, universal Mary, and an earthly Mary representing human life on Earth....

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

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

Rediscovered film showing a host sell a gum holder with help from Aaron Judge....