Avant Garde Movies

A visual representation, in four parts, of one man's internalization of "The Divine Comedy." Hell is a series of multicolored brush strokes against a...

A Japanese fairy tale meets commedia dell'Arte. All in white, the naïf Pierrot lies in a wood. Doo-wop music plays as he rises, stares about,...

A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which...

Hans Richter, noted for his abstract shorts, has everyday objects rebelling against their daily routine.

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

A comedy short mocumentary about student filmmaking. Twatter follows the exploits of Writer/Director Quentin Tarantino (No Relation) as he attempts...

"From the Notebook of..." was shot in Florence and takes as its point of departure Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks and Paul Valéry's essay on da...

An early impressionist short featuring a woman who dreams of, and escapes into, an autumn forest.

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

The romantic relationship between a man and a woman.

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

Events take a sinister turn one night in London, when two very different couples arrive at a double-booked apartment. Actions have consequences and...

In this short film Bert Haanstra gives his vision - from the water – of a tranquil Holland. During filming he held the camera upside down and...

Cracking open the human-camera body.

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...

A young man desperately seeks out the fleeting image of a female companion, and though he never quite catches her, he discovers much more through the...

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...

We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures...

Experimental short uses Ray Charles' “What'd I Say” as accompaniment to constantly shifting collage of female nude, cartoons, and...

Fifteen images of a camera running in a park and in obscurity searching the space of light through distorsion and the sensory of rapid motion.