Movies: Avant garde

  • 1987
    The Dante Quartet

    The Dante Quartet (1987)

    The Dante Quartet

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    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 white background; the speed of the changing images varies. "Hell Spit Flexion," or springing out of ...

    The Dante Quartet
  • 2024
    Nevermore Eleanor

    Nevermore Eleanor (2024)

    Nevermore Eleanor

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    Nevermore Eleanor (2024) | 2160p...

    Nevermore Eleanor
  • 2024
    Sanning/Lögn

    Sanning/Lögn (2024)

    Sanning/Lögn

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    Sanning/Lögn
  • 1980
    The Age of the Earth

    The Age of the Earth (1980)

    The Age of the Earth

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    Drawing inspiration from a poem penned by Castro Alves, this film vividly captures the political, cultural, and intellectual climate of Brazil during the late 1970s. At its core, the story revolves around four distinctive embodiments of Christ's imag...

    The Age of the Earth
  • 1958
    The Very Eye of Night

    The Very Eye of Night (1958)

    The Very Eye of Night

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    Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate untroubled by gravity against a slowly changing starfield background. Their movements are accompanied by mus...

    The Very Eye of Night
  • 2013
    The Window

    The Window (2013)

    The Window

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    A drifter spends the night in an abandoned house and encounters a Window of Consciousness. This award-winning film combines elements of art house, avant-garde, surrealism, and experimental horror....

    The Window
  • 2007
    Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation

    Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation (2007)

    Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation

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    This episode focuses on Zappa's early 70s albums, Overnight Sensation (1973) and Apostrophy (') (1974). Together they encapsulate Zappa's extraordinary musical diversity and were also the 2 most commercially successful albums that he released in his ...

    Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation
  • 2024
    Seasonal Concerns

    Seasonal Concerns (2024)

    Seasonal Concerns

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    A triple exposure on EXR 50D 16mm film: two layers shot in summer, and the third captured on the cusp of winter. A collection of statues fading in and out of consciousness, around the Weissensee lake in northeast Berlin, where the filmmaker lives....

    Seasonal Concerns
  • 2024
    Samudra

    Samudra (2024)

    Samudra

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    A man wanders an oceanic dreamscape in search of a woman from his past....

    Samudra
  • 2021
    Devil's Peak

    Devil's Peak (2021)

    Devil's Peak

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    In the hyperkinetic multichannel video installation Devil’s Peak, Simon Liu surveys the psychogeography of Hong Kong as a feverish dreamscape, activating charged sites of recent civic upheaval, personal heritage, and postcolonial legacies....

    Devil's Peak
  • 2001
    The Ground

    The Ground (2001)

    The Ground

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    What lives in the space between the stones, in the space cupped between my hand and my chest? Filmmaker/stonemason. A tower or ruin of remembrance. With each swing of the hammer I cut into the image and the sound rises from the chisel. A rhythm, mark...

    The Ground
  • 1990
    Glaze of Cathexis

    Glaze of Cathexis (1990)

    Glaze of Cathexis

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    This hand-painted work is easily the most minutely detailed ever given to me to do, for it traces (as best I'm able) the hypnagogic after-effect of psychological cathexis as designed by Freud in his first (and unfinished) book on the subject - "Towar...

    Glaze of Cathexis
  • 2022
    The death of the minotavr

    The death of the minotavr (2022)

    The death of the minotavr

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    The death of the minotavr talks about the concept of the heroine's journey. Suffering, horror and exhaustion lead the protagonist to a process of transformation, abyss and expiation, because only murdering to minotaur and everything he represents is ...

    The death of the minotavr
  • 1982
    Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special!

    Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special! (1982)

    Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special!

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    Produced by Frank Zappa in 1982, The Dub Room Special combines footage from a performance at the KCET studios in Los Angeles on August 27, 1974, a concert performed at The Palladium, NYC on October 31, 1981, some clay animation by Bruce Bickford, and...

    Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special!
  • 2017
    The Metamorphosis

    The Metamorphosis (2017)

    The Metamorphosis

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    Translated from German, Die Verwandlung means, 'The Metamorphosis', a title that aligns with King Kong Magazine's 'Metamorphosis Issue' (September 2017), in which Jacobsen's imagery also appears. This notion encompasses a variety of the elements that...

    The Metamorphosis
  • 1978
    The Scenic Route

    The Scenic Route (1978)

    The Scenic Route

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    An experimental drama that spins the tale of a woman, her sister, and the man who completes the triangle. Told through such fertile sources as grand opera, classical painting, and Victorian melodrama....

    The Scenic Route
  • 1957
    Nymphlight

    Nymphlight (1957)

    Nymphlight

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    A short, avant-garde movie, starring twelve-year-old ballet student Gwen Thomas, Nymphlight is a lovely blend of fact and fiction, using Bryant Park at the New York Public Library as a stage set for the fantasy inclusion of a certain nymph. A meditat...

    Nymphlight
  • 1997
    Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde

    Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde (1997)

    Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde

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    Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet, an essayist, a philosopher, and a leader of American modernism. Known for documenting the cultural elite living in France, Man Ray spent much of his ...

    Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde
  • 2019
    Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

    Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art (2019)

    Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art

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    Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) explores Video Art, revealing how different generations ‘hacked’ the tools of television to pioneer new ways of creating art that can be beautiful, bewildering and wildly experimental....

    Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art
  • 2022
    KM 9

    KM 9 (2022)

    KM 9

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    The 1980s, the Tuscan countryside. Two young lovers are driving east to enjoy the dawn but they end up at the scene of a crime and become the new target of the criminals...

    KM 9