Movies: Avant garde

  • 1980
    The Shining

    The Shining (1980)

    The Shining

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    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....

    The Shining
  • 1998
    Perfect Blue

    Perfect Blue (1998)

    Perfect Blue

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    Encouraged by her managers, rising pop star Mima takes on a recurring role on a popular TV show, when suddenly her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered....

    Perfect Blue
  • 2006
    Paprika

    Paprika (2006)

    Paprika

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    When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it and recover it before damage is done: Paprika....

    Paprika
  • 1998
    Pi

    Pi (1998)

    Pi

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

    Pi
  • 1964
    Woman in the Dunes

    Woman in the Dunes (1964)

    Woman in the Dunes

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    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....

    Woman in the Dunes
  • 2010
    Beyond the Black Rainbow

    Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)

    Beyond the Black Rainbow

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    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...

    Beyond the Black Rainbow
  • 1985
    Angel's Egg

    Angel's Egg (1985)

    Angel's Egg

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    In a desolate and dark world full of shadows, lives one little girl who seems to do nothing but collect water in jars and protect a large egg she carries everywhere. A mysterious man enters her life... and they discuss the world around them....

    Angel's Egg
  • 1991
    Begotten

    Begotten (1991)

    Begotten

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    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....

    Begotten
  • 2004
    Mind Game

    Mind Game (2004)

    Mind Game

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    Nishi is a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, he journeys to heaven and back, and ends up trapped in an even more unlikely place....

    Mind Game
  • 2005
    Rampo Noir

    Rampo Noir (2005)

    Rampo Noir

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

    Rampo Noir
  • 2024
    Daedalus

    Daedalus (2024)

    Daedalus

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    "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...

    Daedalus
  • 2023
    Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion

    Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion (2023)

    Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion

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    After the end of civilization, an aged man undergoes a mysterious journey through space and time that takes him through memories, visions, and historical events, ultimately transcending the limitations of the senses and into a new cosmic rebirth....

    Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion
  • 2024
    WAR TIMES

    WAR TIMES (2024)

    WAR TIMES

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    An exploration of two souls inhabiting bodies from 1940's Hungary, and the beginning of the digital age....

    WAR TIMES
  • 2003
    Lost Boundaries

    Lost Boundaries (2003)

    Lost Boundaries

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    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...

    Lost Boundaries
  • 2015
    Roxy: The Movie

    Roxy: The Movie (2015)

    Roxy: The Movie

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    A Frank Zappa show goes way beyond a mere concert – it is an experience…a flight of improvisation, musicianship, and cerebral cynicism. An unparalleled Composer and Guitarist, Zappa redefined rock n roll paradigms by introducing into the mix his favo...

    Roxy: The Movie
  • 1959
    The Cry of Jazz

    The Cry of Jazz (1959)

    The Cry of Jazz

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    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...

    The Cry of Jazz
  • 2024
    Diotima

    Diotima (2024)

    Diotima

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    "Dancing is sculpting in time." Diotima captures the fluid grace of two people sculpting time through dance, in a continuous one-take shot around Indy Simin's "Echt in Vorm." Their movements inside, around, and upon the sculpture reveal a simple unit...

    Diotima
  • 2017
    Vortex

    Vortex (2017)

    Vortex

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    A corridor of an apartment is transformed into a claustrophobic and vertiginous vortex that swallows and imprisons you in an infinite fall through a mise en abyme: it’s a pure enclosure inside the image world, it’s the Descent into the Maelstrom....

    Vortex
  • 1969
    Dull Hope

    Dull Hope (1969)

    Dull Hope

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    Suppressed memories reach a boiling point. An animated tale of longing. “The Experimental section saw Non Films’ Dull Hope scoop the premier place as category winner. Half animation and half movie footage, this hybrid resonated very much with the ju...

    Dull Hope
  • 2023
    Perfect Flowers of the Scum Generation

    Perfect Flowers of the Scum Generation (2023)

    Perfect Flowers of the Scum Generation

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    Inspired by their putrid desire for this butch hustler named Hollywood, this queer triptych follows a clan of revolutionary femmes as they are driven to righteous violence. It’s pro-drug anti-fascist queer propaganda in gorgeous Super 8mm!...

    Perfect Flowers of the Scum Generation