Avant Garde Movies

"Fragments of unidentified and yet strangely familiar films, pregnant with allusion and implication, drift into one another, obscured by the haze of...

New experimental short from James Fotopoulos.

A short film following a young woman as she's pursued by a mysterious stranger in the woods.

The film is based on a puppet musical which fuses the fantastical and historical, transforming a process of historical research into a...

A Frank Zappa show goes way beyond a mere concert – it is an experience…a flight of improvisation, musicianship, and cerebral cynicism....

A filmmaker uses cinema through the flicker of memory and dreams to chase the fragments of a life slipping through his fingers.

A young boy with such little to do, wanders around Sydney playing sheriff with his toy gun. However, this state of monotony takes a sudden turn when...

"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." A 7 day vlog during the summer of 2023, a story of dreamers and drowners.

A multimedia sex-ed video about life and love in a world where humans have corkscrew penises and corkscrew vaginas.

Aspiring writer Lucy Simon embarks on a psychedelic road trip to the planet Mars with her brash, unnamed drug dealer behind the wheel in this...

A short film by the Argentinian experimental filmmaker Ernesto Baca

Experimental short film of colors and lights

Shot on July 23, 1968, this historical 16mm footage of Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention at Whisky a Go Go in West Hollywood, CA has been...

A woman in her early twenties suffers from insomnia. One night out, she's assaulted, which leads to dire consequences for her.

An experimental short film capturing the delicate beauty of different flowers.

Shot in long, contemplative takes, Madrona Marsh lingers on the last remaining vernal freshwater wetland in Los Angeles’s South Bay. Amid...

An experimental film documenting a river leading up to a waterfall, depicting both its natural beauty and its inherent danger.

An experimental visual diary, composed of frenetic images and spontaneous memories captured by the eye of the camera.

Weaving blistering performance footage from Europe, Japan, and the U.S. with a sublimely restrained, intimate glimpse into a world-renowned jazz...