Avant Garde Movies

A Frank Zappa show goes way beyond a mere concert – it is an experience…a flight of improvisation, musicianship, and cerebral cynicism....

Waves crashing against the rocks, a journey to the beaches of El Tabo (Chile).

An experimental short film capturing the delicate beauty of different flowers.

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...

A multimedia sex-ed video about life and love in a world where humans have corkscrew penises and corkscrew vaginas.

This live recording was culled from seven September 1992 concerts given in Vienna, Berlin, and Frankfurt by the Ensemble Modern, a Frankfurt-based...

A corridor of an apartment is transformed into a claustrophobic and vertiginous vortex that swallows and imprisons you in an infinite fall through a...

"I only say the sun goodbye." Dionisos captures the existential unease where insomnia echoes and shadows of past regrets linger. As days blend into...

Inspired by their putrid desire for this butch hustler named Hollywood, this queer triptych follows a clan of revolutionary femmes as they are driven...

Shirley Clarke's frenetic documentary about multi-talented musician Ornette Coleman.

Experimental short film about various Christmas objects and lights.

"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Daedalus weaves a tale of ambition and caution through an ancient myth, set in a...

Ayush suffers from sleep paralysis and dark hallucinations, haunted by shadowy figures that represent his repressed fears. Trapped between dream and...

An experimental short film that explores the textures of nature and the gaze of a cat.

Short film of a general landscape about the saturation of the city. 35mm.

Recorded Live in Paris in 1980, this is a rare recording of Frank Zappa performing at the peak of his career with his incredible backing band,...

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

A visual journey across various cities in Chile through a cinematic diary.

A man loses a close person in his life, and is forced to experience the consequences.

Lost Boundaries is comprised of footage shot by Julien on location, in England in the summer of 1985, during the making of the Sankofa film and video...