Avant Garde Movies

  • 1983
    The Dog's Night Song

    The Dog's Night Song

    The Dog's Night Song

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    A priest arrives in a village and give advice and comfort to different people. He meets a wheelchair-bound former representative of the Communist...

    The Dog's Night Song
  • 2007
    Sam in the Bag

    Sam in the Bag

    Sam in the Bag

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    While Trevor and Sam are smoking pot, Trevor’s mom comes home. When she finds out, Trevor reveals his father’s adulterous ways and...

    Sam in the Bag
  • 1974
    Crossings and Meetings

    Crossings and Meetings

    Crossings and Meetings

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    A lone man walking across the video screen is the starting point for this dynamic formal exercise. This image and its accompanying sound are...

    Crossings and Meetings
  • 2024
    A Bold Voyage

    A Bold Voyage

    A Bold Voyage

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    A tragic story of a musician taking a bold voyage in the pursuit of creation, ambition, and need. Letting life choose for him, as part of the art...

    A Bold Voyage
  • 1928
    The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra

    The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra

    The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra

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    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 Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra
  • 1969
    The Angel Was Born

    The Angel Was Born

    The Angel Was Born

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    Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mystical visionary and believes in the imminent...

    The Angel Was Born
  • 1997
    Totem Talk

    Totem Talk

    Totem Talk

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    Traditional Northwestern Indigenous spiritual images combined with cutting-edge computer animation in this surreal short film about the power of...

    Totem Talk
  • 1969
    Stairs, Tunnels and Mirrors

    Stairs, Tunnels and Mirrors

    Stairs, Tunnels and Mirrors

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    "1969 period. In the beginning of this experimental film a figure in white ascends spiral staircases and escalators and moves away from the camera...

    Stairs, Tunnels and Mirrors
  • 2009
    House of Harrington

    House of Harrington

    House of Harrington

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    Profile of the late iconoclastic director Curtis Harrington, featuring images from many of his poetic and haunting films.

    House of Harrington
  • 2013
    #MerrittXanadu44

    #MerrittXanadu44

    #MerrittXanadu44

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    An obsessive Vine star goes down a road of surreal imagery, as his obsession with the application develops into murder.

    #MerrittXanadu44
  • 2025
    In Dreams

    In Dreams

    In Dreams

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    A couple stroll through a wintry landscape - Is this a dream? Is this Heaven?

    In Dreams
  • 2015
    They Had It Coming

    They Had It Coming

    They Had It Coming

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    A movie by Jon Jost, who is the maestro of the American experimental movie world. The film tells us the strange incidents that happen in the ruined...

    They Had It Coming
  • 2010
    Me, Myself, and My Third Eye: 4 Enlightened Stories For 1 Imperfect God

    Me, Myself, and My Third Eye: 4 Enlightened Stories For 1 Imperfect God

    Me, Myself, and My Third Eye: 4 Enlightened Stories For 1 Imperfect God

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    Features four distinct, bizarre, existential tales about people whose lives are in transition, who are each asking questions about themselves, their...

    Me, Myself, and My Third Eye: 4 Enlightened Stories For 1 Imperfect God
  • 1978
    Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: One Two Three

    Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: One Two Three

    Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: One Two Three

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    An abstract work featuring three dancers, the performers interact with large screens as well as each other. Included in Shirley Clarke’s Four...

    Four Journeys Into Mystic Time: One Two Three
  • 1969
    Stand Up and Be Counted

    Stand Up and Be Counted

    Stand Up and Be Counted

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    A continuous dissolve into a series of happy nude couples in various configurations: female/male, female/female, male/male, as the Rolling Stones...

    Stand Up and Be Counted
  • 2013
    Frank Zappa: A Token Of His Extreme

    Frank Zappa: A Token Of His Extreme

    Frank Zappa: A Token Of His Extreme

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    Frank Zappa: A Token of his Extreme is the 1974 television special recorded at Kcet in Hollywood that was produced by Zappa and aired only in France...

    Frank Zappa: A Token Of His Extreme
  • 2011
    The Pips

    The Pips

    The Pips

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    An experimental short inspired by the music of Gladys Knight.

    The Pips
  • 2016
    Reflections I

    Reflections I

    Reflections I

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    A meditation on light and water; landscape as self-portraiture.

    Reflections I
  • 1978
    Frank Zappa: We Don't Mess Around

    Frank Zappa: We Don't Mess Around

    Frank Zappa: We Don't Mess Around

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    Tracklisting: 1. Pound for a Brown 2. Baby Snakes 3. Deathless Horsie 4. Dancin' Fool 5. Easy Meat 6. Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me 7....

    Frank Zappa: We Don't Mess Around
  • 2006
    Destruction of the Berlin Wall

    Destruction of the Berlin Wall

    Destruction of the Berlin Wall

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    Filmed in Berlin, July 1990. Images of workers taking down the wall and street peddlers selling pieces of it to make a living. From the cycle of...

    Destruction of the Berlin Wall