Avant Garde Movies

This programme tells the story behind the conception, recording and release of this groundbreaking album. By use of interviews, musical...

The first part depicts the heroine's toothache consequent to the loss of a very valuable watermelon, her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next...

Three friends meet in a central cheerful pastime. After strolling along the boulevards, they are in nature. The dark side of the forest reveals the...

A precarious highway carries an unnamed protagonist to a series of doctors' appointments, where it is unclear what ails her. She speaks to no one and...

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

Screened in the official competition at the Cannes Festival, this controversial documentary depicts a hypnosis session in which participants, under...

Short experimental film.

The Dreamer That Remains is a documentary produced by Betty Freeman and directed by Stephen Pouliot in 1972. Here is the director’s original...

Inspired by the famous gay Greek painter Giannis Tsarouhis' paintings, Diptych is a contemplation on male beauty, the impossibility of open gay love...

A father must face his dark past when his gifted daughter has visions of a young girl reborn from her deceased mother. This award-winning...

"This film was presented as part of my 1969 thesis on Max Ernst. It was a personal tribute where I filmed his collages, then intercut live footage I...

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

A free flow from photography to geometric abstraction hand-painted by Breer. - Harvard Film Archive

"Visionary post-war modernist Tyeb Mehta channels the nightmares of the nation in Koodal, at once the artist’s self-described...

In the aftermath of an emotional shock, a ruthless high-class manager faces her own abyss, becomes pervaded by a sensory spirit and undertakes a...

CREMASTER 3 is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner,...

This short film made by László Moholy-Nagy is based on the shadow patterns created by his Light-Space Modulator, an early kinetic...

Andy Warhol’s screen adaptation of Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange”.

Beginning in 1965 with Black Is, Tambellini launched a series of politically charged experimental films that explore the expressive possibilities of...