avant garde movies page 5

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...

Swain (1950)
0 / 10

Drama

Swain is inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Fanshawe, features a dreamlike narrative of a young man’s ritualized rejection of heterosexuality, as...

Godzone (2017)
6 / 10

Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Two friends try to re-unite by going on a road-trip to the forests and mountains. Their attempt to reconcile does not go easy due to the secrets they...

The Age of the Earth (1980)
6.316 / 10

Drama

Drawing inspiration from a poem penned by Castro Alves, this film vividly captures the political, cultural, and intellectual climate of Brazil during...

Riddles of the Sphinx (1977)
4.7 / 10

Drama

In this avant-garde classic, protagonist Louise deals with a change in her lifestyle in which she must learn to negotiate domestic life and...

Dream of a Summer Night (1983)
7.2 / 10

Music, Fantasy

Rock musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

Serenity (1961)
6.8 / 10

History, Drama

Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit and...

Dear God No! (2011)
3.5 / 10

Horror, Comedy

A gang of outlaw bikers pull a home invasion on a disgraced Anthropologist hiding a secret locked in his cabin basement.

Cotton Candy (2002)
0 / 10

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...

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...

Cloud Chamber (1999)
0 / 10

This hand-painted step-printed film begins in a field of white light slightly bespeckled with ephemeral glazes of flecks of silver which gradually...

Double Labyrinthe (1976)
7 / 10

With this film-manifesto, the two artists invent what they called the Cinéma corporel (Cinema of the Body), they present themselves as a "double...

KM 9 (2022)
7.5 / 10

Thriller

The 1980s, the Tuscan countryside. Two young lovers are driving east to enjoy the dawn but they end up at the scene of a crime and become the new...

The Window (2013)
10 / 10

Horror

A drifter spends the night in an abandoned house and encounters a Window of Consciousness. This award-winning film combines elements of art house,...

Dalmas (1973)
6 / 10

Drama

Bert Deling's surreal, button-pushing and hallucinogenic paean to the emerging possibilities of avant-garde and homemade filmmaking. Telling the tale...

The First Murder (1972)
5 / 10

Drama

Based on the novel "Šta bi učinio Zobec?" (What Would Zobec Do?) by Svetozar Vlajković. It's a short movie about a young man who is afraid of...

Masking Threshold (2022)
5.3 / 10

Horror, Drama, Thriller

Conducting a series of experiments in his makeshift home-lab, a skeptic IT worker tries to cure his harrowing hearing impairment. But where will his...

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...

No. 12: Heaven and Earth Magic (1962)
5.8 / 10

Animation

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

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...