Avant Garde Movies

A railway crossing guard and his wife live in a routine of total isolation and uneventfulness.

Filmed during Jonas Mekas’s visit to Assisi in 1967, this short documents his time in the city known for its spiritual associations. The...

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.

A foreign girl arrives to her new apartment. Her three roommates welcome her rather distantly, for no reason at all, and she can smell that there is...

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

Monteiro moved far away from the visual opulence defined by his earlier films with his inspired adaptation of radical Swiss writer Robert...

While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother...

The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal founders of Surrealism, Max Ernst explores the...

8 subjects combined explore their physical autonomy and identity, brought together through the movements of Precious Ellis.

The film begins as a documentary about an author known for autofiction. By incorporating multiple making-of layers, it blends the process of making...

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

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

During its 85-minute running time, this jarring experimental film takes a no-holds-barred look at the way women have been treated and depicted in...

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.

A married woman has an affair. She gets pregnant by her lover and they live serenely together, although war is thundering towards their city. Despite...

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,...

Tom is a young guy from Zagreb, completely without money, trying to make films in Belgrade. He somehow manages to survive with a help of women. He...

The tragicomedy of the absurd, is based on the works of Daniil Kharms (1905-1942). Trying to recreate reality 30s, who came to the flowering of...

Dr. Eugene has a goal - to perform the operation of his life. To do this, he escapes from a certain research institute of the brain and begins to...

One morning, the late Karlheinz Stockhausen awoke from a dream that told him to take to the sky. Stockhausen envisioned four helicopters swirling in...