Avant-garde / Experimental
  • Out 1: Spectre picture
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    Out 1: Spectre

    This experimental French film was originally made in a 12-hour-long version. The release version is...

  • Rendez-Vous a Bray picture
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    Rendez-Vous a Bray

    Set in France in 1917, this film is about non-combatant pianist Julien (Mathieu Carriere) and the...

  • Iluminacja picture
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    Iluminacja (1973)

    Illuminacja follows the education of a young man from his entry into college to his final...

  • Vertical Features Remake picture
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    Vertical Features Remake (1990)

    Tongue-in-cheek, early Greenaway short reflects the incredibly meticulous encyclopedic nature of his...

  • The Golden Boat picture
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    The Golden Boat (1991)

    A cock-eyed look at TV cop shows, Mexican soap operas and life on the artistic fringes of Lower...

  • Sonic Outlaws picture
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    Sonic Outlaws (1996)

    Maverick filmmaker Craig Baldwin investigates the 1991 legal confrontation between Island Records...

  • Stairs 1 Geneva picture
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    Stairs 1 Geneva

    Perspectives on visual language.

  • Few of Us picture
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    Few of Us

    A girl visits a place, seemingly untouched by civilization and inhabited by only a small,...

  • Seven Servants picture
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    Seven Servants (1996)

    A rich old man tries to defy death by hiring four men of different nationalities to boost his...

  • Spectres of the Spectrum picture
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    Spectres of the Spectrum (2000)

    In the year 2007, the father and daughter team of Yogi and Boo-Boo are collecting electrodata from...

  • The Decay of Fiction picture
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    The Decay of Fiction (2006)

    The walls of the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles are cracked and peeling, the lawns are brown, and...

  • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One picture
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    Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (2005)

    Filmmaker William Greaves auditioned acting students for a fictional drama, while simultaneously...

  • Operai, Contadini picture
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    Operai, Contadini

    A group of workers and peasants read excerpts from a novel by Elio Vittorini describing their story....

  • Dancing picture
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    Dancing (1992)

    A man finally wins the eternal conflict and dances on Death's grave.

  • Planet Earth: Dreams picture
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    Planet Earth: Dreams (2004)

    A surreal series of interlocking dreams by a woman named Agatha who is continually invited to a...

  • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2 picture
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    Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2

    In Central Park, 1968, a director shot scenes of a young couple whose marriage was falling apart -...

  • Angel City picture
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    Angel City (1977)

    Independent filmmaker Jon Jost isn't about to make a film merely for "the masses". Rife with...

  • I am Cuba picture
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    I am Cuba (1995)

    Cuba's embracement of Communism is honored in four vignettes dramatizing life before Fidel Castro...

  • Sticky Fingers of Time picture
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    Sticky Fingers of Time (1999)

    A 1950s author (Terumi Matthews) is transported to 1990s Brooklyn, where she meets a woman (Nicole...

  • Weekend picture
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    Weekend (1968)

    A young couple taking a country drive from Paris find themselves falling upon an incredible traffic...

  • L' Hypothese du Tableau Vole picture
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    L' Hypothese du Tableau Vole (1987)

    The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting is the film most responsible for bringing director Raul Ruiz...

  • The Tempest picture
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    The Tempest

    Prospero the magician (Heathcote Williams) causes trouble in a surreal adaptation of the Shakespeare...

  • Bildnis einer Trinkerin picture
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    Bildnis einer Trinkerin

    A woman in haute couture clothes parodies female drag as she tours Berlin on a drunken journey. She...

  • Journeys From Berlin/1971 picture
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    Journeys From Berlin/1971

    American avant-garde filmmaker Yvonne Rainer explores the ramifications of terrorism, a subject...

  • Anti-Clock picture
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    Anti-Clock

    Anti-Clock is so pretentious a chunk of "personal statement" that one is amazed that it was filmed...

  • L' Allegement picture
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    L' Allegement

    In this surreal, overstated, black-and-white film by Marcel Schuepbach, a young woman is slowly...

  • Paesaggio con Figure picture
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    Paesaggio con Figure

    A director just out of NYU film school shot this black-and-white, low-budget production using all...

  • Jubilee picture
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    Jubilee (1979)

    The year is 1578. Queen Elizabeth is transported by an angel into the future where she has "the...

  • Him and Me picture
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    Him and Me

    Director and writer (James Benning) has put a couple from the Midwestern U.S. into New York City,...

  • La Belle Captive picture
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    La Belle Captive

    A young executive, exhausted from the day's efforts and unnerved by his new, empty apartment, has a...