Avant Garde Movies

Collective experimental film by Team 8mm TENGOKU.

Exploring the wit, work and world of Joe Orton through his own words, and the testimony of those who knew him and worked with him.

Shot under extreme conditions and inspired by Mayan creation theory, the film contemplates the illusion of reality and the possibility of capturing...

Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La...

ĀTMAN is a visual tour-de-force based on the idea of the subject at the centre of the circle created by camera positions (480 such positions)....

In an urban Indian city, A struggling actor battles for his career, but his friend who loses money in a scam deal commits an action that puts both of...

The documentary examines Frank Zappa and his music through archive footage, including unique video excerpts from Austrian television archives...

In this avant-garde classic, protagonist Louise deals with a change in her lifestyle in which she must learn to negotiate domestic life and...

“For my film portrait of Sasha Grey, I wanted to focus on her expressive and psychological transformation into a cinematic actor, separate from...

Adachi's follow-up to Bowl using the figure of a woman suffering from an unusual sexual aliment has often been taken as a controversial allegory for...

Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.

Restore the classical definition of planet! Bring back planet Pluto! The solar system is twelve!

In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H....

Filmed by Jonas Mekas from the 44th floor of the Time-Life Building, “Empire” explores the passage of time without the use of characters...

Lake gazes down at a still body of water from a birds-eye view, while a group of artists peacefully float in and out of the frame or work to stay at...

A spiral design spins. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk...

A whirlwind of improvisation combines the images of animator Pierre Hébert with the avant-garde sound of techno whiz Bob Ostertag in this...

Kurt Kren recorded the last television debate in the Reagan/Mondale election campaign. In the viewfinder, the television filled the entire picture,...

A Sunday walk in a forest turns into a poetic journey on perception.

Rock musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".