Avant Garde Movies

Audiovisual material gathered by filmmaker Fox Maxy over a decade, including documentary footage, television clips, and animation—sometimes...

Frank Zappa: Phase Two is a 2002 documentary about Frank Zappa. It features a lot of footage from Scheffer's previous film, but new material from...

A very personal interpretation, to say the least, of the passion of the Christ According to St. John.

Jeff Wall is one of the most important and influential photographers working today. His work played a key role in establishing photography as a...

Korea, the now: A young man makes a fateful encounter with a stranger he passionately falls in love with. When Unk rides his scooter through the...

This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by...

The Weavers of Nishijin captures the process of traditional textile manufacture in Nishijin.

"This film was presented as part of my 1969 thesis on Max Ernst. It was a personal tribute where I filmed his collages, then intercut live footage I...

With input from actor and writer Jan Hlobil, director and cinematographer Rene Smaal presents a film in the true surrealist tradition, in the sense...

A whirlwind of improvisation combines the images of animator Pierre Hébert with the avant-garde sound of techno whiz Bob Ostertag in this...

An experimental short film about wind and sunlight sweeping across tree leaves.

Engram is a three-part piece revolving around a few good old ideas such as photos inside of photos, movies inside of movies, photos inside of movies,...

Screened in the official competition at the Cannes Festival, this controversial documentary depicts a hypnosis session in which participants, under...

Begging features Paul Su, the activist known for protesting the fare increase of the Star Ferry, in a striking portrayal of a homeless man. His...

Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate...

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s travels in 1981, this short captures scenes from Stockholm. The footage was later included in his 2003 compilation...

A 3D animated journey through the life of an egg

The film began as a record of the painter Joseph Glin and his series of paintings inspired by "La Maison Des Mortes" by Guillaume Apollinaire. After...

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

A psychedelic, avant-garde collage film designed to accompany PRPL PPL's experimental album of the same name.