Avant Garde Movies

  • 2008
    Metaphysics of Sound

    Metaphysics of Sound

    Metaphysics of Sound

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    Adopting mainly hand contact printing with photographic enlarger, «Metaphysics of sound» started from September of 2006 and completed in...

    Metaphysics of Sound
  • 2018
    Spring Masks

    Spring Masks

    Spring Masks

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    Living in fragments, pieced together in varied ways, uncertainly, and yet... Inside there is a familiar chaos, awaiting a key...

    Spring Masks
  • 1969
    Homo sapiens

    Homo sapiens

    Homo sapiens

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    The first film in Vlatko Gilić’s Sisyphean trilogy, Homo sapiens follows a suited man as he takes a trek back and forth across a sandy...

    Homo sapiens
  • 1964
    Sabath

    Sabath

    Sabath

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    Short experimental 16mm film.

    Sabath
  • 1974
    A Voyage on the North Sea

    A Voyage on the North Sea

    A Voyage on the North Sea

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    Marcel Broodthaers’ film and book, both titled A Voyage on the North Sea which were distributed together as part and parcel of the same...

    A Voyage on the North Sea
  • 2021
    Astronaut's Uniform

    Astronaut's Uniform

    Astronaut's Uniform

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    Mockumentary experimental film, which shows one day in the life of a young man. The action takes place on the Day of Soviet Cosmonautics, April 12,...

    Astronaut's Uniform
  • 1965
    Melting

    Melting

    Melting

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    Melting shows the natural monostructural disintegration of a strawberry sundae, its passage from rigidity to softness, from edibility to waste. The...

    Melting
  • 1982
    Ghost Sonata

    Ghost Sonata

    Ghost Sonata

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    Video project dubbed "an Opera without Words" made by the experimental, avant-garde band Tuxedomoon.

    Ghost Sonata
  • 2025
    Digital Smoke

    Digital Smoke

    Digital Smoke

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    Digital Smoke is an experimental meditation on light, memory, and distortion. Shot at twilight in Minneapolis’s Loring Park, the film captures...

    Digital Smoke
  • 2018
    The Hymns of Muscovy

    The Hymns of Muscovy

    The Hymns of Muscovy

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    The film is a trip to the planet Muscovy - an upside-down twin city of Moscow in space. As the title of the work suggests, the journey also takes us...

    The Hymns of Muscovy
  • 2004
    Kshya Tra Ghya

    Kshya Tra Ghya

    Kshya Tra Ghya

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    A stream of mysterious rituals and symbols are encountered as a young boy journeys to school in the fantastical world of Kshya Tra Ghya.

    Kshya Tra Ghya
  • 1970
    Rhythm and Environment

    Rhythm and Environment

    Rhythm and Environment

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    3-minute experimental animation based on the techniques of John Whitney.

    Rhythm and Environment
  • 2002
    Cotton Candy

    Cotton Candy

    Cotton Candy

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    Gehr uses a mini-digital recorder to look back on the Machine Age in the form of San Francisco's soon-to-be-shuttered Musee Mecanique. For slightly...

    Cotton Candy
  • 1967
    Himself as Herself

    Himself as Herself

    Himself as Herself

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    The young hero seems the essence of maleness, yet he's troubled by vaguely feminine objects. Soon his masculine and feminine selves are intercut, as...

    Himself as Herself
  • 1980
    Demons

    Demons

    Demons

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    Polish avant-garde animation in which a periodic series of aggressive starbursts interrupt the melodic dancing of fluid shapes, one raid even...

    Demons
  • 2009
    Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis

    Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis

    Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis

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    The film explores familiar landscape imagery Saïto and Goldstein share in their neighbourhood at the foot of Mount-Royal Park in...

    Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis
  • 1987
    The Dante Quartet

    The Dante Quartet

    The Dante Quartet

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    A visual representation, in four parts, of one man's internalization of "The Divine Comedy." Hell is a series of multicolored brush strokes against a...

    The Dante Quartet
  • 2015
    And How Godmilow Expanded It

    And How Godmilow Expanded It

    And How Godmilow Expanded It

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    Caspar Stracke replicates Jill Godmilow's replica of Harun Faroci's film "Inextinguishable Fire."

    And How Godmilow Expanded It
  • 1995
    Unstable Materials

    Unstable Materials

    Unstable Materials

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    This film is made by some beautiful and unique alchemical transformations of the film material itself. It is a visual expedition into the world of...

    Unstable Materials
  • 2011
    Maria

    Maria

    Maria

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    Maria Lang is my very close filmmaker friend who lives in the southern german countryside. We see her gardening and visiting an exhibition of female...

    Maria