Avant Garde Movies

Partly a parody, partly a mockumentary, partly an essay film - and also an actual behind the scenes documentary of two short films.

A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious man called Duchemin. Once they sample his "fear powder"...

Before and after a kiss

This film is constructed upon the visual poetry between what you hear and see, and a sensual fluidity that is not based on the cause and effect...

The film juxtaposes/compares two museums: The Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel, which Samuel Bickels (1909-1975) built there in 1948, and The Menil...

How do those within the memories show themselves to us?

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...

Film produced and directed by Ricky Leacock, Edward Pincus, and MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies documenting the Centerbeam kinetic sculpture...

Two college buddies try to understand a young woman's suicide through her Super-8 films and clips from their summer trips together.

An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense...

Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In...

Each day after work, Carlos, a language school teacher, frequents the heady surroundings of his local cruising ground. One evening he encounters a...

Lumiere's The Arrival Of A Train in Russian.

Hieronymus Rivera, a strong force in the New York fashion underground, is offered the deal of a lifetime by Cecilia Meadows, a government official...

Avant-garde homage to pre-revolution Russian silent movies, and to the poet Aleksandr Blok.

Peripeteia I and Peripeteia II, shot by the artist in Oregon’s rainforest, alone and without electricity. "Navigation spiraling sunwards....

Short film version of the upcoming Norwegian feature-length film 'Sakura'.

Two young men and two girls on a moonlit night confess to each other in their strange fantasies and loves that go beyond the usual standards.. The...

A found footage film about a strange and mysterious movie production.

Sex as dance and comedy: in Progressive Touch Portnoy studies and expands the relationship between sex, choreography and composing music. He...