Avant Garde Movies

Following an introduction which establishes the social context of the film, ‘The Politics of Perception’ presents a one-minute...

A forgotten faceless celebrity ascends into heaven along the path of self-discovery and through a land of faded memory.

Global Groove was a collaborative piece by Nam June Paik and John Godfrey. Paik, amongst other artists who shared the same vision in the 1960s, saw...

The film explores familiar landscape imagery Saïto and Goldstein share in their neighbourhood at the foot of Mount-Royal Park in...

The lives of people are observed within the confines of one, twenty-two story high rise apartment complex and its adjacent courtyard in Trump...

“The ‘exhibition’ held by ‘artist’ Katsuhiro Fujimura in Tokyo during the very hot summer of 2013 was one that made...

Markopoulos called Lysis “a study in stream-of-consciousness poetry of a lost, wandering, homosexual soul” and felt that the film...

Collective experimental film by Team 8mm TENGOKU.

Through the streets of an unnamed city, a relentless cameraman follows a German woman, which leads to panic and fear arising in her.

Made up of piano, this shows Basinski's patented tape-loop technique perfectly and still stands as one of his most affecting pieces of music; still...

An abstract, minimalistic showpiece of late structuralist film made up of 360-degree pans across a children’s playground – and to one of...

Documentary on Frank Zappa.

A baby, John, who was abandoned in the church with a horse-headed koto on his side. His grandfather was once a Morin Khuur player and died in the...

A visually provoking short film about one of the most extreme homosexual practices.

A depiction of a girl’s uneasy state of mind as it wavers between life and death.

To forget about the end of a relationship, a woman fantasizes about an ideal one. Fantasy and reality begin to melt into one another, but the past...

An experimental short inspired by the music of Gladys Knight.

SMOKING is a brief portrait of Maria Klonaris composed of seven shots. Katerina Thomadaki completed it in 2016, two years after Maria Klonaris'...

The Weavers of Nishijin captures the process of traditional textile manufacture in Nishijin.