Avant Garde Movies

  • 1972
    The Dreamer That Remains: A Portrait of Harry Partch

    The Dreamer That Remains: A Portrait of Harry Partch

    The Dreamer That Remains: A Portrait of Harry Partch

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    The Dreamer That Remains is a documentary produced by Betty Freeman and directed by Stephen Pouliot in 1972. Here is the director’s original...

    The Dreamer That Remains: A Portrait of Harry Partch
  • 2008
    La deuxième femme

    La deuxième femme

    La deuxième femme

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    Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La...

    La deuxième femme
  • 1968
    Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

    Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

    Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

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    In Manhattan's Central Park, a film crew directed by William Greaves is shooting a screen test with various pairs of actors. It's a confrontation...

    Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
  • 1964
    Max Ernst: Journey into the Subconscious

    Max Ernst: Journey into the Subconscious

    Max Ernst: Journey into the Subconscious

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    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...

    Max Ernst: Journey into the Subconscious
  • 1928
    The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra

    The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra

    The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra

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    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...

    The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra
  • 1969
    The Virgin's Bed

    The Virgin's Bed

    The Virgin's Bed

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    30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. He has spent no time among men. He is trembling with cold. His...

    The Virgin's Bed
  • 1931
    Taris

    Taris

    Taris

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

    Taris
  • 1978
    Brutal Ardour

    Brutal Ardour

    Brutal Ardour

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    Boy meets girl (or vice versa) and they predictably fall in love to follow the canons of the strictest convention.

    Brutal Ardour
  • 2017
    Joe Orton Laid Bare

    Joe Orton Laid Bare

    Joe Orton Laid Bare

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    Exploring the wit, work and world of Joe Orton through his own words, and the testimony of those who knew him and worked with him.

    Joe Orton Laid Bare
  • 2014
    Frank Zappa – Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily

    Frank Zappa – Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily

    Frank Zappa – Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily

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    In the feature documentary, Summer 82 – When Zappa Came to Sicily, filmmaker and Zappa fan Salvo Cuccia tells the behind-the-scenes story of...

    Frank Zappa – Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily
  • 1974
    The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown

    The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown

    The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown

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

    The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown
  • 2020
    A Report on the Party and the Guests

    A Report on the Party and the Guests

    A Report on the Party and the Guests

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    Europe, 2028. A humanlike creature washes ashore, carrying with him a motionless body he calls his mother. He is on a mission of some kind, reporting...

    A Report on the Party and the Guests
  • 1985
    Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera

    Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera

    Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera

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    The creative processes of avant-garde composer Philip Glass and progressive director/designer Robert Wilson are examined in this film. It documents...

    Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera
  • 1983
    Dream of a Summer Night

    Dream of a Summer Night

    Dream of a Summer Night

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

    Dream of a Summer Night
  • 1968
    Lonesome Cowboys

    Lonesome Cowboys

    Lonesome Cowboys

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    Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse.

    Lonesome Cowboys
  • 1986
    Butthole Surfers: Blind Eye Sees All

    Butthole Surfers: Blind Eye Sees All

    Butthole Surfers: Blind Eye Sees All

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    Blind Eye Sees All is a concert video by Butthole Surfers, which was released on VHS tape in 1985 through Touch and Go Video. The bulk of the video...

    Butthole Surfers: Blind Eye Sees All
  • 2026
    Wanderlust

    Wanderlust

    Wanderlust

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    A young artist named Toma begins to feel that his life in Belgrade begins suffocating him, so he sneaks aboard a cargo ship and travels down the...

    Wanderlust
  • 2002
    The Hedge Theater

    The Hedge Theater

    The Hedge Theater

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    Some years after filming AMOR, I returned to Italy and found the source for a new film in the architecture of Borromini and in a grove of trees with...

    The Hedge Theater
  • 2016
    Night Flight: Born Again

    Night Flight: Born Again

    Night Flight: Born Again

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    Documentary tribute to what VH1 called “the single greatest rock omnibus program ever aired” and Brooklyn Vegan named “the most...

    Night Flight: Born Again
  • 1988
    Put More Blood Into the Music

    Put More Blood Into the Music

    Put More Blood Into the Music

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    PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn; the second is about Sonic Youth at the height of...

    Put More Blood Into the Music