avant garde movies page 3

Still Life (1978)
6.7 / 10

Drama

A minimalist study of lonely, isolated existence. Mohamad Sardari has spent thirty years at a remote outpost raising and lowering a gate to keep road...

The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928)
6.8 / 10

Fantasy, Drama

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

Emotion (1966)
6.7 / 10

Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Experimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters...

2012: Time for Change (2010)
6.111 / 10

Documentary

2012: Time For Change is a documentary feature that presents ways to transform our unsustainable society into a regenerative planetary culture. This...

New Old (1979)
6.2 / 10

Drama

"Chronicles of the Present Times" - An experimental trilogy. New Old flows together footage from more than a decade of his wandering between scenes,...

Cremaster 2 (1999)
6.4 / 10

Fantasy, Horror, Western

CREMASTER 2 (1999) is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of...

Galaxie (1966)
0 / 10

Documentary

In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H....

Good Morning, Mr. Orwell (1984)
8.1 / 10

Comedy, Music, TV Movie

In his book "1984", George Orwell saw the television of the future as a control instrument in the hands of Big Brother. Right at the start of the...

Nymphlight (1957)
5.5 / 10

Documentary

A short, avant-garde movie, starring twelve-year-old ballet student Gwen Thomas, Nymphlight is a lovely blend of fact and fiction, using Bryant Park...

Anemic Cinema (1926)
6.2 / 10

Drama

A spiral design spins. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk...

Méditerranée (1963)
5.714 / 10

Documentary, Science Fiction

Pollet and Schlöndorff imagine the Mediterranean as a supernal arena.

Irish Catholic (2023)
0 / 10

Comedy, Music, Drama

Meet Shavon O'Brien: Her family doesn't understand her, her church ignores her, even Jesus forgets about her. With only the spirit of Sinead...

The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown (1974)
4.9 / 10

Drama

A very personal interpretation, to say the least, of the passion of the Christ According to St. John.

Taris (1931)
6.2 / 10

Documentary

Short documentary directed by Jean Vigo about the French swimmer Jean Taris. The film is notable for the many innovative techniques that Vigo uses,...

R (2013)
9.3 / 10

Drama

In a surreal meeting filled with countless individuals from a variety of backgrounds, nine people recount how sex and sexuality have been used to...

Cosmic Ray (1962)
6.379 / 10

Music, Documentary, History

Experimental short uses Ray Charles' “What'd I Say” as accompaniment to constantly shifting collage of female nude, cartoons, and newsreels of...

The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (1928)
6.4 / 10

Comedy, Drama

This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by...

60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011)
3.75 / 10

Drama, Comedy, Documentary, Animation, Horror, Thriller, Mystery

An anthology of one-minute films created by 60 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was...

Ming Green (1966)
5.3 / 10

This portrait of the filmmaker's apartment, painted in the color of the title, was made a few months before his departure from New York. It is...

Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray (2024)
0 / 10

Drama

An immersion into the surreal and dreamlike world of painter, photographer and filmmaker Man Ray (1890-1976), one of the most prolific American...