Avant Garde Movies

  • 2014
    Aromat

    Aromat

    Aromat

    02014HD

    This film is shot to point out the flood of commercial messages in television program, on billboards and megaboards, messages that take over our...

    Aromat
  • 2015
    A Man from Manchuria

    A Man from Manchuria

    A Man from Manchuria

    3.52015HD

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

    A Man from Manchuria
  • 1996
    Prelude 1

    Prelude 1

    Prelude 1

    5.31996HD

    Turquoise and maroon-toned thin lines of paint are interspersed with variously toned circular "watermarks" of blotched paint giving-way to...

    Prelude 1
  • 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
  • 2022
    Corner

    Corner

    Corner

    02022HD

    The corner of a street is matched and mixed with the chant of a bird recorded on that same street. A symbiotic relationship is triggered: the rapid...

    Corner
  • 2015
    Mr. Zhang Believes

    Mr. Zhang Believes

    Mr. Zhang Believes

    8.22015HD

    Zhang Xianchi is a man thrown into the Cultural Revolution and its afterimage, plunged into the ideological deadlocks of the era and suffering its...

    Mr. Zhang Believes
  • 1978
    White Film

    White Film

    White Film

    6.11978HD

    Spectrum and prism divide the screen; whites and light, etc. "Out of this purity comes all colors. I've always been attracted to refracted light and...

    White Film
  • 1996
    Prelude 6

    Prelude 6

    Prelude 6

    5.81996HD

    Interplay of mostly horizontal lines inter-woven with "watermark" forms in a wide variety of tones which gradually tend to dissolve into blues at the...

    Prelude 6
  • 2000
    Persian Series #11

    Persian Series #11

    Persian Series #11

    5.62000HD

    Persian Series #11 begins with a "window" of yellow paint adrift in the full frame of multicolored paint-shapes. Alternating black-space/white-space...

    Persian Series #11
  • 1993
    Tryst Haunt

    Tryst Haunt

    Tryst Haunt

    4.71993HD

    A hand-painted film photographically step-printed so that the thicket-like lines of paint are “played-off” against some centered...

    Tryst Haunt
  • 1957
    Daybreak and Whiteye

    Daybreak and Whiteye

    Daybreak and Whiteye

    01957HD

    These two films investigate frustrations in loving, DAYBREAK with a girl as object, WHITEYE with the camera as subject. Preserved by the Academy...

    Daybreak and Whiteye
  • 2024
    Bydlo

    Bydlo

    Bydlo

    02024HD

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

    Bydlo
  • 1996
    Prelude 2

    Prelude 2

    Prelude 2

    5.31996HD

    Interplay of toned rectangular shapes, vertical and horizontal and diagonal lines in juxtaposition with hardened darker shapes which gradually shift...

    Prelude 2
  • 1989
    Clownery

    Clownery

    Clownery

    61989HD

    The tragicomedy of the absurd, is based on the works of Daniil Kharms (1905-1942). Trying to recreate reality 30s, who came to the flowering of...

    Clownery
  • 2010
    The Birth of Music

    The Birth of Music

    The Birth of Music

    7.32010HD

    The film is an allegory in which the attempt is made to show the inner process of movement of the composer's soul at the time of the birth of music.

    The Birth of Music
  • 1996
    Prelude 12

    Prelude 12

    Prelude 12

    61996HD

    A bursting of mostly golden light forms as if heralding sunlight itself in their hurried (single-frame) display.

    Prelude 12
  • 1991
    Royaume

    Royaume

    Royaume

    71991HD

    Light, colour, abstraction, perception, hallucination: a few concerns closely akin to those of ETANT DONNÉS which, however, do not amount to...

    Royaume
  • 1973
    Once Upon a Time

    Once Upon a Time

    Once Upon a Time

    6.51973HD

    We are first presented a cobweb castle, filled with the haunting doubts of the young protagonist. Spirits appear on the screen and are heard on the...

    Once Upon a Time
  • 2017
    PROTOTYPE

    PROTOTYPE

    PROTOTYPE

    32017HD

    As a major storm strikes Texas in 1900, a mysterious televisual device is built and tested. Blake Williams’ experimental 3D sci-fi film...

    PROTOTYPE
  • 1998
    The Little Sotmaid

    The Little Sotmaid

    The Little Sotmaid

    101998HD

    On a remote almost uninhabited island, there are two gently friendly representatives of the once opposing sides. They have long been accustomed to...

    The Little Sotmaid