Avant Garde Filmes

Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959, The Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of...

Shirley Clarke's frenetic documentary about multi-talented musician Ornette Coleman.

Deep within the mysterious Arboria Institute, a disturbed and beautiful girl is held captive by a doctor in search of inner peace. Her mind...

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

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

Lost Boundaries is comprised of footage shot by Julien on location, in England in the summer of 1985, during the making of the Sankofa film and video...

Adam is a factory worker. He falls in love with Chris, a slightly older man. Instead of strengthening his own identity, Adam is unable to cope with...

"Dancing is sculpting in time." Shot around Indy Simin's "Echt in Vorm."

Through abrupt soundtrack shifts, this short film jumps between historical political imagery to explore the cinematic language of propaganda,...

Images from 2000s music videos are transferred onto the film strip, torn and abstracted until the visuals convulse and shift—a tactile, poetic...

The wind carries an aspiring healer into a chaotic, virulent parallel world. Paralyzed by a familiar universe that is gradually becoming distorted,...

"I only say the sun goodbye"

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...

A corridor of an apartment is transformed into a claustrophobic and vertiginous vortex that swallows and imprisons you in an infinite fall through a...

The humble line has a life of its own. As it travels from one point to the next it can take whatever route it fancies. With plenty of ups and downs,...

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

Although the free jazz movement of the 1960s and '70s was much maligned in some jazz circles, its pioneers - brilliant talents like Ornette Coleman,...

An exploration of two souls inhabiting bodies from 1940's Hungary, and the beginning of the digital age.

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

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