Movies: Avant garde

Bored with her mundane life, aspiring writer Lucy Simon embarks on a psychedelic road trip to the planet Mars with her brash, unnamed drug dealer behind the wheel. Danger, thrills and cosmic wonder ensues in this existential adventure presented entir...

Experimental short film of colors and lights...

A guy named Ray tries to go to sleep and a sasquatch gets into funky business....

Rediscovered film showing a host sell a gum holder with help from Aaron Judge....

Thirty-three shots based on the landscapes of the Isère region near Vienne. A work of observation on light, the dilation of Time, wind, calm and storm....

Automatic Writing transforms involuntary speech into an ambient soundscape, conjuring four spectral musical "characters." Object Collection reimagines this on a stage of flickering monitors and shifting light, weaving a dense, ephemeral sound world—...

Inspired by their putrid desire for this butch hustler named Hollywood, this queer triptych follows a clan of revolutionary femmes as they are driven to righteous violence. It’s pro-drug anti-fascist queer propaganda in gorgeous Super 8mm!...

Face in Motion depicts Chang Chao-Tang from the shoulders up, dressed in a light tank top, shaking his head and contorting his face. The background is pitch black, and he is lit with an almost otherworldly glow. The artist recorded at two frames per ...

Weaving blistering performance footage from Europe, Japan, and the U.S. with a sublimely restrained, intimate glimpse into a world-renowned jazz percussionist’s singular voice and complex cosmology....

"I only say the sun goodbye." Dionisos captures the existential unease where insomnia echoes and shadows of past regrets linger. As days blend into unconsciousness, the night unveils a haunting struggle between personal demons and the unending flow o...

You find yourself in a foreign landscape. Two other people are on the horizon. Something about the world around you is off. It isn't long before something is released from a caged pit. There is limited time left as something ugly consumes the land ar...

A dreamy, impressionistic 16mm film of light on water, comprised mostly of sepia tones....

A study of observation, perceptions and sensations of nature and human interactions from the eye of a digital camera...

What will happen if the world of 12th-grade students who prepare for University admission is changed to the way they never expected? This is the director's first experimental short film....

An experimental short film about fleeting moments that capture the everyday in different forms and emotions. A sensory exploration of ordinary time. 35mm. Silent....

A girl, shocked after receiving her mark on the final is put through a lot of stress, and she might be seeing her best friend, everywhere?...

A short film investigating the ideas of Roland Barthes, Jean-Luc Godard and Michael Haneke, in the form of two short lessons....

Experimental short film shot in the south of Chile....

An experimental short film that explores the textures of nature and the gaze of a cat....

A small collection of red rocks from the beach cycle through the primary colours before ultimately losing both their colour and form, abstracted through digital degradation. An experimental short film exploring newfound issues in preservation in the ...