Avant Garde Movies

  • 1929
    Skyscraper Symphony

    Skyscraper Symphony

    Skyscraper Symphony

    5.81929HD

    A montage of the skyscrapers of Manhattan opens with a succession of stationary views of the upper portions of numerous buildings. This is followed...

    Skyscraper Symphony
  • 2024
    Sanning/Lögn

    Sanning/Lögn

    Sanning/Lögn

    02024HD

    Sanning/Lögn
  • 2023
    Looking through a Glass Darkly

    Looking through a Glass Darkly

    Looking through a Glass Darkly

    02023HD

    An experimental media installation of three windows exploring fragments of liminality. Three unique re-constructions of experiential instances...

    Looking through a Glass Darkly
  • 2018
    After Dark

    After Dark

    After Dark

    02018HD

    After the electricity went off, many eyes grew from the playground.

    After Dark
  • 1968
    The Mysteries

    The Mysteries

    The Mysteries

    01968HD

    "In my film I suggest that there is no greater mystery than that of the protagonists. War and Love are simply equated for what they are; the...

    The Mysteries
  • 1949
    Mr. Frenhofer and the Minotaur

    Mr. Frenhofer and the Minotaur

    Mr. Frenhofer and the Minotaur

    4.51949HD

    Peterson based this romantic piece on Balzac’s Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu and Picasso’s Minotauromachie. The film combines a story of the...

    Mr. Frenhofer and the Minotaur
  • 2012
    REW

    REW

    REW

    8.12012HD

    A man is trapped in a loop somewhere between life and death. Based on Bardo, a Buddhist term for an intermediate state between death and rebirth....

    REW
  • 1982
    Flash Passion

    Flash Passion

    Flash Passion

    01982HD

    Flash Passion is one of the very first films that the two artists made in Athens when they took up the super-8 camera and extended their theatre...

    Flash Passion
  • 2013
    A Messenger from the Shadows (Notes on Film 06 A/Monologue 01)

    A Messenger from the Shadows (Notes on Film 06 A/Monologue 01)

    A Messenger from the Shadows (Notes on Film 06 A/Monologue 01)

    02013HD

    Thanks to his myriad film roles, Lon Chaney is known as “the man of a thousand faces,” and you could say that the early horror era never...

    A Messenger from the Shadows (Notes on Film 06 A/Monologue 01)
  • 1967
    The Song of Assisi

    The Song of Assisi

    The Song of Assisi

    5.81967HD

    In 1967, I decided to visit Avila where I had an enlightening experience.

    The Song of Assisi
  • 2023
    Lesbian Dogwood and the Disaster Life Thereof: Part 1

    Lesbian Dogwood and the Disaster Life Thereof: Part 1

    Lesbian Dogwood and the Disaster Life Thereof: Part 1

    02023HD

    A nomadic homunculus ranger lives in the derelict wastelands of Neo Kansas City 2, where they barely survive and make friends, despite the constant...

    Lesbian Dogwood and the Disaster Life Thereof: Part 1
  • 2024
    Preface to a History

    Preface to a History

    Preface to a History

    02024HD

    A couple, Vlad and Sophy, navigate their relationship as well as their own struggles with mental health in the context of a highly connected,...

    Preface to a History
  • 2007
    What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6

    What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6

    What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6

    62007HD

    Strips of previously unexposed film went into the ocean and these fragments are what returned. In this final installment of a nine year project...

    What The Water Said, Nos. 4-6
  • 1991
    Involuntary Conversion

    Involuntary Conversion

    Involuntary Conversion

    01991HD

    This apocalyptic linguistic comedy meditates on the relationship between language, meaning and social decay and is scripted from "double-speak"...

    Involuntary Conversion
  • 2023
    Katakumby

    Katakumby

    Katakumby

    102023HD

    Katakumby
  • 2005
    Poet's Dream

    Poet's Dream

    Poet's Dream

    02005HD

    The poet's dreams a maiden's bubbles through edifices of forest and eclectic contagion.

    Poet's Dream
  • 1967
    Bliss

    Bliss

    Bliss

    7.51967HD

    The first film made by Markopoulos after moving to Europe, Bliss was shot over the course of two days using only available light to create a lyrical...

    Bliss
  • 1990
    Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave

    Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave

    Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave

    5.71990HD

    Brakhage begins here with Carlsbad Caverns as a stand-in for Plato's Cave and then responds to the philosopher's notion of inaccessible ideal forms...

    Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave
  • 1962
    Justice

    Justice

    Justice

    81962HD

    A man and a woman quarrel in the street. Others take sides, and a brawl begins. The police finally intervene and justice is carried out in a manner...

    Justice
  • 1924
    Diagonal Symphony

    Diagonal Symphony

    Diagonal Symphony

    5.551924HD

    A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which...

    Diagonal Symphony