Avant Garde Movies

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...

Pussy Trash is an ex dancer now invalid that lives with "Grandpa" in their poor home. After finding a video of his youth he will try to find a way to...

Three images of a person running in the void through the movement of speed and abstract images

How would a found footage film look if the footage was never found? This conceptual art experiment questions the very nature of film and cinema while...

I set my sights on the human body and realized things, were moving at last, during my first material action, I soiled a female body with mud, paint,...

Based upon the life and writing of literary visionary Danil Harms, a Russian avant-garde poet of the 1920s who was persecuted and ultimately silenced...

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A piano tuner wanders through the streets of New York after dark, seeking artistic inspiration. Sketchbook in hand, he observes the city’s...

Filmed during a visit to Jerome Hill in Provence, Jonas Mekas sets his Bolex to capture a single day overlooking the port of Cassis. Shot frame by...

After disbanding the original Mothers of Invention in '69, Frank Zappa unleashed a second incarnation of the band by '70. This film focuses on the...

The film appears like a ritual with splendids and crypteds psalms. The Great Master of Order (Marcel Mazé, new fetish actor after Aloual)...

“For my film portrait of Sasha Grey, I wanted to focus on her expressive and psychological transformation into a cinematic actor, separate from...

Idiosyncratic composer, unique musician and ground-breaking film director…..Frank Zappa packed more into his short lifetime than most men would...

Jon Rafman's short features computer-generated renders of the Twin Towers and a narration from Charles Baudelaire's "Le Guignon."

“Sequences of space-time manipulation that raise the problem of continuity in the shot.” - Yo Ota

Experimental short film exploring New York City's multicultural history through the eyes of three chosen individuals.

Andy Warhol’s screen adaptation of Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange”.

A quasi-sequel to Michel Houellebecq's novel The Possibility of an Island, Masbedo's short presents a post-apocalyptic landscape overseen by a...

A group of strangers explore their fantasies over a period of five days.

A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. - Harvard Film Archive