Avant Garde Movies

Our host Dr. Dramaminex Dante seeks to answer the question: Who knows what the devil looks like? For no one really knows.

Gehr uses a mini-digital recorder to look back on the Machine Age in the form of San Francisco's soon-to-be-shuttered Musee Mecanique. For slightly...

Dislocation in time, time signatures, time as a philosophical concept, and slavery to time are some of the themes touched upon in this 9-minute...

An audiovisual experiment that shows how oil is refined into gasoline and ultimately powers cars and other vehicles, accompanied by classical music...

A day at the carnival — sensational tent shows where miracles can be seen for the price of admission, boisterous noise of crowds and barkers,...

"Untitled begins with a flat, out-of-focus, reddish-pink screen on which blurry white patterns quickly appear and disappear. After awhile a space...

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

A Manhattan professor's (William Raymond, Larry Loonin) unseen artist wife mocks his pitiful existence.

The second part: Brakhage’s layering of images spends less time with images of war, and begins filtering in scenes of Vienna and his home in...

Light painting and nature imagery are captured in 13 shots of different points of luminescence, on the 13th anniversary of Schwartz’s...

Chapter Two represents a continuation of daily observations from the environment of Manhattan compiled over a period from 1980-1981. This is the...

In the dining room of the abandoned house a white, faded entity feeds on her pieces. Memories keep her here and time transforms her into something...

A couple, Vlad and Sophy, navigate their relationship as well as their own struggles with mental health in the context of a highly connected,...

Following an introduction which establishes the social context of the film, ‘The Politics of Perception’ presents a one-minute...

How would a found footage film look if the footage was never found? This conceptual art experiment questions the very nature of film and cinema while...

The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost spiderweb-like pattern over the hands of several...

In 1933, at age 33, Harry Alan Potamkin died of complications related to starvation, at a time when he was one of the world's most respected film...

The original family is expelled from Eden and forced to face the hardships of existence. However, each of its members sees the world differently....

A montage of Les Rallizes Dénudés concert footage, some archive and some contemporary, alleged to have been assembled by a French...

ĀTMAN is a visual tour-de-force based on the idea of the subject at the centre of the circle created by camera positions (480 such positions)....