Avant Garde Movies

The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal founders of Surrealism, Max Ernst explores the...

All day of St. Petersburg bohemia in 4 minutes of the film.

Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.

In his book "1984", George Orwell saw the television of the future as a control instrument in the hands of Big Brother. Right at the start of the...

A film in three parts: a man talking while a telephone rings, a walking tour of New York, and a goldfish swimming.

Dementia draws a woman into a world of memory loops, losing her love her spirit, her present her past.

Experimental short uses Ray Charles' “What'd I Say” as accompaniment to constantly shifting collage of female nude, cartoons, and...

An experimental film shot on distressed 16mm celluloid that reveals various men on the beach or in swimming pools, in various states of lounging in...

A railway crossing guard and his wife live in a routine of total isolation and uneventfulness.

Bert Deling's surreal, button-pushing and hallucinogenic paean to the emerging possibilities of avant-garde and homemade filmmaking. Telling the tale...

This psychedelic horror short inspired by vintage cinema follows a raped girl's descent into derangement and makes the audience feel as...

In Manhattan's Central Park, a film crew directed by William Greaves is shooting a screen test with various pairs of actors. It's a confrontation...

A costume designer is sent to the Catskills for an interactive theatre piece set in the 1920s. When she arrives things seem dark, strange and off....

An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling,...

This episode focuses on Zappa's early 70s albums, Overnight Sensation (1973) and Apostrophy (') (1974). Together they encapsulate Zappa's...

Between a experimental journey in the subconscious, a woman go through her introspective layers and bettle one of her powerfuls and misterious...

The plot begins with them and ends with humanity. This author wanted to show continuity: the first love and the supposed last is an indivisible whole...

A mesmerizing trip through the psychedelic vastness of space.

An anthology of surreal films by Patrick McGuinn featuring Vincent, a puppet who is obsessed with Twinkies and pasta.