Avant Garde Movies
- 2011

The Shining: Forwards and Backwards
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An experimental film comprised of Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING played forwards and backwards at the same time on the same screen, creating bizarre...
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- 1959

Elbow (As Such)
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A tale of two brothers from babies to adulthood told without words. One brother is upstaged by the other from the crib onward. Eventually the tables...
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- 1997

The Autumn Alley
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A docudrama about art and creativity; based on modern art gallery in Tehran and its founder Jazeh Tabatabai.
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- 2012

Theodore of the Absurd
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A surreal musical comedy set in a world where the avant-garde and the mainstream are reversed.
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- 1976

Superdyke Meets Madame X
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From the first kiss to breakup, Almy and Hammer record their relationship on a reel-to-reel ¾” tape recorder and microphone.
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- 2026

7 Piano Sketches
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A piano tuner wanders through the streets of New York after dark, seeking artistic inspiration. Sketchbook in hand, he observes the city’s...
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- 2017

Electro-Pythagorus: A Portrait of Martin Bartlett
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Electro-Pythagorus is an intimate and subjective portrait of the late Martin Bartlett, the Canadian electronic music pioneer who studied with Pauline...
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- 1923

Rhythm 23
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We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures...
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- 1996

Prelude 8
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...as removed as possible from any recognition of either exterior scene of interior feedback phenomena. It is, in its ineffability, as close to pure...
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- 2002

Cremaster 3
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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,...
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- 2013

Woche
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- 2024

Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray
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An immersion into the surreal and dreamlike world of painter, photographer and filmmaker Man Ray (1890-1976), one of the most prolific American...
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- 2011

Dear God No!
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A gang of outlaw bikers pull a home invasion on a disgraced Anthropologist hiding a secret locked in his cabin basement.
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- 1970

Mosolov's Suitcase
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The life of Ukrainian-Soviet avant-garde composer Alexander Mosolov inspires three stories about creation and individualism in the face of state...
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- 2006

Destruction of the Berlin Wall
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Filmed in Berlin, July 1990. Images of workers taking down the wall and street peddlers selling pieces of it to make a living. From the cycle of...
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- 2010

Me, Myself, and My Third Eye: 4 Enlightened Stories For 1 Imperfect God
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Features four distinct, bizarre, existential tales about people whose lives are in transition, who are each asking questions about themselves, their...
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- 1992

John Cale: Fragments of a Rainy Season
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Solo live concert recorded in Brussels, April 12, 1992. Tracks: 1) On A Wedding Anniversary 2) Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed 3) Do Not Go Gentle...
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- 1971

A Girl Is a Gun
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The intense and twisted relationship between a man and a woman in a bizarre wilderness, as a seductress accompanies a gunslinger fleeing from a posse.
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- 1970

Within
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This psychedelic horror short inspired by vintage cinema follows a raped girl's descent into derangement and makes the audience feel as...
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- 1928

The Seashell and the Clergyman
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Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
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