Avant Garde Movies

Prelude 14 begins in deep brilliant red which darkens into deeper reds and lavender shapes, disrupted by a variety of colors settling into browns and...

The story tracks the unhealthy and abusive relationship between an unnamed man and his wife in the days following his return to north eastern...

Prelude 10 is a double-printed film with an extreme mixture of darks shot thru with jewel-like bursts of color, and very white bursts of light and...

3-D is a hand-painted experimental short film by Riley Hogan. Acrylic paint, ink and scratching were used to animate on clear Super 8mm film leader.

In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H....

From June 2021 to June 2022, Justin "Jastun" Bland records whatever that is in front of him. He presents an abstract montage of collected videos...

In an anachronistic dystopian landscape, a beleaguered young man attempts to navigate his way through the indie film scene in LA.

Pussy Trash is an ex dancer now invalid that lives with "Grandpa" in their poor home. After finding a video of his youth he will try to find a way to...

Frank Zappa and his band in a digitally recorded live performance at "The Pier" in New York, NY on August 26, 1984.

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...

This audio-visual tone poem uses the language of filmmaking to offer a first-hand evocation of the turbulent psychological effects one can experience...

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

A filmmaker gets lost in a world of his own creation, literally. He is plotted against by his outer demons, searches for his lost sex scene and...

Melting shows the natural monostructural disintegration of a strawberry sundae, its passage from rigidity to softness, from edibility to waste. The...

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...

Short experimental film.

PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn; the second is about Sonic Youth at the height of...

Three student filmmakers set out to capture each other's inner life struggles in an avant-garde documentary, but as the lens turns inward and time...

A man wanders an oceanic dreamscape in search of a woman from his past.