Avant Garde Movies

A compelling narrative told entirely through subtitles, lights, and chairs.

“Peter Kubelka…was teaching at Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule (Städel) at the time....

Last August, several filmmakers joined me to repair the splices in Markopoulos’s Eniaios. I interrupted our work for a moment; the generosity...

Going back to the places of crime scenes and urban legends, a Visual Bizarre Adventure in Daytime.

A film constructed from a succession of drawings on old books.

An outcast girl makes an interesting conversation with a peculiar boy.

A bursting of mostly golden light forms as if heralding sunlight itself in their hurried (single-frame) display.

"The Heavens"–Symmetrical chaos envelops a lone, topless man, whose symmetrical abstractions conjure up a psychadelic version of DaVinci's...

Five people of different ages, professions, and backgrounds, explore madness through collective play and the performance of surreal acts, freeing...

An experimental video collage piece that investigates the concept of self-destruction across genres, eras, and cultures. Features footage from Abbas...

Munchsferatu is a painter who has become a vampire by living only for his art. An experimental narrative mashup film with David Bowie, Gérard...

Presenting a woman, a female statue, a breathing tree, and a fish out of water, an unorthodox love story unfolds with the growth of limbs and...

For five grueling years, Li Ning documents his struggle to achieve success as an avant-garde artist while contending with the pressures of modern...

A series of individual portraits of friends and family, all interrelated in what might be called a branch growing directly from the trunk of SONGS 1...

A side table and a chest of drawers (played by actors in ingenious soft-sculpture costumes) indulge in a bit of passive-aggressive furniture moving....

To summon the third eye awakening, we should not agitate the surface of the mind and physical eye, but soothe and provoke the third eye to awaken. In...

A particular day of a samurai

Light, colour, abstraction, perception, hallucination: a few concerns closely akin to those of ETANT DONNÉS which, however, do not amount to...

In “Everybody’s Cage”, German film artist Sandra Trostel turns John Cage and his approach to art into a tangible fascination,...