Movies: Avant garde

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within....

A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them....

Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth....

A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future....

An anthology film consisting of four segments based on literary works by Edogawa Ranpo....

Deep within the mysterious Arboria Institute, a disturbed and beautiful girl is held captive by a doctor in search of inner peace. Her mind controlled by a sinister technology. Silently, she waits for her next session with deranged therapist Dr. Barr...

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 music and race - a forecast of what he called "the death of jazz." A landmark moment in black film, for...

Ayush suffers from sleep paralysis and dark hallucinations, haunted by shadowy figures that represent his repressed fears. Trapped between dream and reality, he confronts these manifestations of his inner turmoil....

An experimental film documenting a river leading up to a waterfall, depicting both its natural beauty and its inherent danger....

The petals, in an intimate and evocative dance, slide and intertwine on the filmmaker’s saliva, while a vibrant and enveloping sound pulsates through the film. In this encounter between film material and natural eroticism, the screen is transformed i...

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 is pitch black, and he is lit with an almost otherworldly glow. The artist recorded at two frames per ...

Short film shot in southern Chile, appreciating its landscapes with an experimental visual objective....

"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Daedalus weaves a tale of ambition and caution through an ancient myth, set in a nation below sea level. Shot in just seven consecutive days during the summer of 2023, it concludes t...

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

Seeing himself as a form unable to experience intimacy, he is given the chance when brought to the household of twin sisters....

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 collective's first experimental feature film The Passion of Remembrance (1986), which he co-directed...

Prepare to be swept away on an interstellar escapade like no other as Lucy and her enigmatic drug dealer chart a course down the Intergalactic Highway towards the planet of Mars. In this mesmerizing blend of crime, comedy, and cosmic wonder, every mo...

What would happen if we'd try to perceive the digital image at a microscopic level? Would we be able to see between or behind the pixels, as if they were atoms in a vacuum? We can escape the frame by crossing its outer borders, but is there also a wa...

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

"I only say the sun goodbye." Dionisos captures the existential unease where insomnia echoes and shadows of past regrets linger. As days blend into unconsciousness, the night unveils a haunting struggle between personal demons and the unending flow o...