Avant Garde Movies

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...

A young man named Phillip finds himself in a purgatory reality that's littered with clues of his past life. From the discovery of his own corpse to...

Is it a difference between eating a dog and being dogged?

Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959, The Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of...

Experimental short film of various abstract and everyday moments.

Inspired by Ballet Mécanique, Ballet Biologic is an experimental triptych exploring the body through movement, physical painting and spoken...

Suppressed memories reach a boiling point. An animated tale of longing. “The Experimental section saw Non Films’ Dull Hope scoop the...

different shapes and lights illuminate the screen.

Shot on July 23, 1968, this historical 16mm footage of Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention at Whisky a Go Go in West Hollywood, CA has been...

A dreamy, impressionistic 16mm film of light on water, comprised mostly of sepia tones.

Automatic Writing transforms involuntary speech into an ambient soundscape, conjuring four spectral musical "characters." Object Collection...

A Rock-Opera unlike any other film ever made, depicting the stages of Judas Iscariot's decision to sell Jesus Christ to the Romans.

“Before ‘Virgin’, I never put much stock in the idea of a ‘cursed’ production. Take a film like ‘Incubus’....

The humble line has a life of its own. As it travels from one point to the next it can take whatever route it fancies. With plenty of ups and downs,...

An experimental film documenting a river leading up to a waterfall, depicting both its natural beauty and its inherent danger.

The third short film by Edward Pettitt.

A tiny bug crawls across an unknown landscape as it continually metamorphoses around the creature. Suddenly, there is a twist.

A hovering camera exploration; The flow of a river becomes background and subject at the same time, movement creating fabric-like patterns of...

What will happen if the world of 12th-grade students who prepare for University admission is changed to the way they never expected? This is the...

By light, or lack thereof, and sound, or lack thereof, I’ve tried to disassociate and then return to find something strange in the most...