Movies and TvShows featuring "avant-garde-film" theme.

Grace, a woman fleeing from gangsters, seeks shelter in a small Colorado town. The townspeople agree to protect her, but as time goes on, they demand more and more from her, leading to abuse and exploitation. When Grace's true identity is revealed, she seeks revenge on the town by orchestrating their destruction with the help of the mobsters.

In a dark and violent underworld, an assassin embarks on a mission with a mysterious briefcase. As he delves deeper into the twisted realm, he encounters monstrous creatures, alchemists, and a war for control. With stunning stop-motion animation and minimal dialogue, 'Mad God' takes audiences on a surreal journey filled with surrealism and mature themes.

24 Hour Psycho is the title of an art installation created by artist Douglas Gordon in 1993. The work consists entirely of an appropriation of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 Psycho slowed down to approximately two frames a second, rather than the usual 24. As a result it lasts for exactly 24 hours, rather than the original 109 minutes. The film was an important work in Gordon's early career, and is said to introduce themes common to his work, such as "recognition and repetition, time and memory, complicity and duplicity, authorship and authenticity, darkness and light."

The Wayward Cloud is a controversial avant-garde film that tells the story of a passionate love affair set against a backdrop of a water shortage and drought in Taipei, Taiwan. The film features explicit sexual scenes and musical numbers, exploring themes of loneliness and the search for connection.

Landscapes revealed themselves through text, paper through movement, while the sun gave them relief. This is a journey across found words, enunciating a discovery, their textures constructing the sea and the waves, in a travelogue from the first exploration, the first step over the sand towards the shore. “Amor” writes this joy to underline it in its time, captured on paper. This film has been composed through a scanner, and it’s the first chapter of the “Reír al Sol” series.

El Topo is an avant-garde film that follows the journey of a gunslinger known as El Topo. He seeks enlightenment and embarks on a surreal and violent quest through the desert. Along the way, he encounters themes of religion, mysticism, revenge, and racism. The film is filled with symbolism and explores dark and twisted aspects of human nature.

Black Moon is a surreal fantasy horror movie set in a post-apocalyptic world. It follows the story of a young girl who discovers a hidden world where animals speak and a battle of the sexes is being fought. The movie explores themes of nature, eccentricity, and the absurd. It features surreal imagery, including a talking unicorn and a pet pig. The protagonist, a young girl, navigates through this strange and bizarre world, encountering eccentric characters and facing her own fears. The film is a unique blend of fantasy, horror, and surrealism.

In the aftermath of an emotional shock, a ruthless high-class manager faces her own abyss, becomes pervaded by a sensory spirit and undertakes a purifying voyage.

Chinatown is an evocative place. It exists in our cities, in our imaginations, on our television screens, and in our memories. It is at once a sprawling, vibrant immigrant community and a forgotten strip mall of buffet restaurants.

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.

Three conspirators steal a secret android. In their warehouse hideout, the android secretes a reality-altering substance, which casts them into a frightening nether-world of interconnected subjectivity.

Reflections of Evil is a satirical and surrealistic film that delves into the dark side of Hollywood. It follows the story of a teenager who becomes a guru of an avant-garde studio lot, leading to riots and appropriation. The film features elements of comedy, drama, fantasy, and horror, with themes of surrealism, splatter, and satire. It touches on various topics such as September 11, television, the 1970s, hippies, drug use, and homelessness. The protagonist's journey is filled with hallucinations, terrorism, and bizarre encounters, portraying the absurdity and darkness that lurks beneath the surface of the entertainment industry.

Renee wakes up one morning in the middle of the desert with blood on her hands. She cannot remember why she is there, how she got there or with whom she came. Her quest to uncover forgotten events leads her on a journey of discovery where reality and memory collide and people are not what they seem.

Brand Upon the Brain! is a surreal and experimental film set on a remote island where an orphanage is located. The story revolves around a man who returns to the island to uncover the mysteries of his childhood. As he explores the island, he encounters surreal and fantastical events, including a lesbian relationship, incestuous undertones, and advanced technology. Through a series of flashbacks and dream-like sequences, the man delves deep into his past, confronting the traumatic experiences he had as a child. The film combines elements of comedy, drama, fantasy, and mystery to create a unique and thought-provoking narrative.

SUNSHINE CITY is Albie Thom’s sprawling, protoplasmic experimental portrait of his hometown of Sydney. The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia call it “a structured diary film which investigates the process of living in Sydney, which uses a repeating light modulation to intensify experiences of light, heat, colour”.

A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia to study the last speakers of a dying language. That language apparently consists of a single word, which therefore means everything.

In Big Bang Love, Juvenile A, a police detective investigates a murder inside a prison where two young inmates fall in love amidst the violence. The film combines surrealism, homoeroticism, and avant-garde elements to depict a story of forbidden love in a unique and unsettling way.

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

On Christmas Eve, a nameless little girl reads 'The Monster's Christmas' storybook to her teddy bear, as something sneaks around in the trees outside her window. She hears a noise in the other room, and thinking that it's Father Christmas, she goes to investigate. She finds one of the monsters, who has come seeking help to defeat an evil witch that has stolen all the monsters' voices.

A ritual of grids, reflections and chasms; a complete state of entropy; a space that devours itself; a vertigo that destroys the gravity of the Earth; a trap that captures us inside the voids of the screen of light: «That blank arena wherein converge at once the hundred spaces» (Hollis Frampton).