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Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present 106 mins Seductive, fearless, and outrageous, Marina Abramovic has been redefining what art is for nearly forty years. Using her own body as a vehicle, pushing herself…
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present
Persona 85 mins By the midsixties, Ingmar Bergman had already conjured many of the cinema's most unforgettable images. But with the radical PERSONA, this supreme artist attained new…
Persona Persona
Eraserhead 90 mins In David Lynch's "dream of dark and troubling things," Henry is left alone in his apartment to care for his deformed baby and has a…
Eraserhead Eraserhead
Caravaggio 91 mins Derek Jarman's most profound reflection on art, sexuality and identity retells the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and…
Caravaggio Caravaggio
Weekend 105 mins This scathing late-sixties satire from Jean-Luc Godard is one of cinema's great anarchic works. Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois…
Weekend Weekend
F for Fake 89 mins Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In Orson Welles's free-form documentary F FOR FAKE, the legendary filmmaker (and self-described charlatan) gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career…
F for Fake F for Fake
Belle de Jour 101 mins Catherine Deneuve's porcelain perfection hides a cracked interior in one of the actress's most iconic roles: Severine, a Paris housewife who begins secretly spending her…
Belle de Jour Belle de Jour
Funeral Parade of Roses - Bara no sôretsu 106 mins Director Toshio Matsumoto's shattering, kaleidoscopic masterpiece is one of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the late 1960s: a headlong dive into a dazzling,…
Funeral Parade of Roses - Bara no sôretsu Funeral Parade of Roses - Bara no sôretsu
La Jetée 29 mins Chris Marker, filmmaker, poet, novelist, photographer, editor, and now videographer and digital multimedia artist, has been challenging moviegoers, philosophers, and himself for years with his…
La Jetée La Jetée

Experimental Documentary

An Aviation Field - A Surreal and Mythical Landscape in Brazil 14 mins The newest work to emerge from Harvard's groundbreaking Sensory Ethnography Lab, Joana Pimenta's AN AVIATION FIELD is a mesmerizing short film, a ghost story about…
An Aviation Field - A Surreal and Mythical Landscape in Brazil An Aviation Field - A Surreal and Mythical Landscape in Brazil
The Darkness of Day 27 mins The Darkness of Day is a haunting meditation on suicide. It is comprised entirely of found 16mm footage that had been discarded. The sadness, the…
The Darkness of Day The Darkness of Day
Protagonist - Four Men Share Their Stories Extremism and Personal Revelation 91 mins This documentary features four individuals who have been devoted to personal odysseys - a cause, a quest, an ideal - to the point of total…
Protagonist - Four Men Share Their Stories Extremism and Personal Revelation Protagonist - Four Men Share Their Stories Extremism and Personal Revelation
Five Obstructions 88 mins Lars von Trier now enters the world of documentary filmmaking alongside his idol, Danish filmmaker Jorgen Leth. In 1967, Leth made a 12 minute feature…
Five Obstructions Five Obstructions
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm 76 mins In his one-of-a-kind fiction/documentary hybrid, director William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York's Central Park, leaving them to try to figure…
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Symbiopsychotaxiplasm
F for Fake 89 mins Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In Orson Welles's free-form documentary F FOR FAKE, the legendary filmmaker (and self-described charlatan) gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career…
F for Fake F for Fake
INAATE/SE/ - The Seven Fires Prophecy 69 mins A re-imagination of an ancient Ojibway story -- the Seven Fires Prophecy -- which both predates and predicts first contact with Europeans, INAATE/SE/ is a…
INAATE/SE/ - The Seven Fires Prophecy INAATE/SE/ - The Seven Fires Prophecy

Experimental Cinema

Careful 100 mins Guy Maddin's early masterpiece takes place in a 19th-century Alpine village where the wary residents --adult, child and animal!--must speak softly and tread lightly lest…
Careful Careful
Archangel 79 mins Literally a film like no other, this weird, wild and extraordinary photoplay is both melodrama and deadpan parody. With striking black and white cinematography and…
Archangel Archangel
Wittgenstein 73 mins A humorous portrait of one of the 20th century's most influential philosophers. This self-tortured eccentric, who preferred detective fiction and the musicals of Carmen Miranda…
Wittgenstein Wittgenstein
Le Gai Savoir - The Joy of Learning 93 mins While alone in an abandoned television studio, two militants, Emile Rousseau and Patricia Lumumba, have a discourse on language. Referring to spoken word as "the…
Le Gai Savoir - The Joy of Learning Le Gai Savoir - The Joy of Learning
Funeral Parade of Roses - Bara no sôretsu 106 mins Director Toshio Matsumoto's shattering, kaleidoscopic masterpiece is one of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the late 1960s: a headlong dive into a dazzling,…
Funeral Parade of Roses - Bara no sôretsu Funeral Parade of Roses - Bara no sôretsu
Caravaggio 91 mins Derek Jarman's most profound reflection on art, sexuality and identity retells the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and…
Caravaggio Caravaggio
Blue 77 mins In his final and most daring cinematic statement, Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue screen.…
Blue Blue

Short Film

La Jetée 29 mins Chris Marker, filmmaker, poet, novelist, photographer, editor, and now videographer and digital multimedia artist, has been challenging moviegoers, philosophers, and himself for years with his…
La Jetée La Jetée
The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye - 6 Short Films by a Groundbreaking Female Filmmaker 72 mins Vilified by conservatives in Congress, defended by major newspapers, and celebrated by audiences and festivals around the world as one of the most provocative, humorous…
The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye - 6 Short Films by a Groundbreaking Female Filmmaker The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye - 6 Short Films by a Groundbreaking Female Filmmaker
Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film - The 1940s 6 videos Avant-garde films from the 1940's
Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film - The 1940s Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film - The 1940s
Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film - The 1920s 5 videos Avant-garde films from the 1920's
Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film - The 1920s Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film - The 1920s
White Spirit - Du blanc a l'ame 26 mins Avoiding uncomfortable pauses in a conversation is an art. Creating such moments in a conversation is a job, more precisely, this is White's job. In…
White Spirit - Du blanc a l'ame White Spirit - Du blanc a l'ame
The Quay Brothers Collected Short Films 2 videos Two of the world's most original filmmakers, identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay have been making their unique blend of puppetry and stop-motion animation for…
The Quay Brothers Collected Short Films The Quay Brothers Collected Short Films
The Darkness of Day 27 mins The Darkness of Day is a haunting meditation on suicide. It is comprised entirely of found 16mm footage that had been discarded. The sadness, the…
The Darkness of Day The Darkness of Day

Experimental Artists

Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present 106 mins Seductive, fearless, and outrageous, Marina Abramovic has been redefining what art is for nearly forty years. Using her own body as a vehicle, pushing herself…
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present
Free Radicals - A History Of Experimental Film 84 mins This feature-length documentary provides a vivid, eye-opening, and appropriately personal introduction to one of the most important, yet perpetually marginalized, realms of filmmaking: avant-garde cinema.…
Free Radicals - A History Of Experimental Film Free Radicals - A History Of Experimental Film
Discovering Godard 25 mins One of the founders of the Nouvelle Vague movement, Godard was seen as the most experimental director of the time. His films often expressed his…
Discovering Godard Discovering Godard
Discovering Luis Buñuel 54 mins Luis Bunuel, the father of cinematic Surrealism, made his film debut with 'Un Chien Andalou' in 1929 working closely with Salvador Dali. Considered one of…
Discovering Luis Buñuel Discovering Luis Buñuel
After Modernism - The Dilemma of Influence 60 mins The purposeful dismantling of the modernist myth has been the central issue of contemporary art making and art criticism. Since the 1960s, other disciplines, cultures,…
After Modernism - The Dilemma of Influence After Modernism - The Dilemma of Influence
A Space Program - Artist Tom Sachs' Homemade Space Station 70 mins Internationally acclaimed artist Tom Sachs takes us on an intricately handmade journey to the red planet, providing audiences with an intimate, first person look into…
A Space Program - Artist Tom Sachs' Homemade Space Station A Space Program - Artist Tom Sachs' Homemade Space Station
Our City Dreams 88 mins Five Women. Five Artists. One City. In this "lyrical documentary about the intersection of location and imagination" (The New York Times), filmmaker Chiara Clemente shines…
Our City Dreams Our City Dreams

European Avant-Garde

Alice 87 mins When Alice follows the White Rabbit into Wonderland, so begins this dream expedition into the astonishing landscape of childhood, through many dangerous adventures, and ultimately…
Alice Alice
La Jetée 29 mins Chris Marker, filmmaker, poet, novelist, photographer, editor, and now videographer and digital multimedia artist, has been challenging moviegoers, philosophers, and himself for years with his…
La Jetée La Jetée
Daisies 77 mins Maybe the Czech New Wave's most anarchic entry, Vera Chytilova's absurdist farce follows the misadventures of two brash young women. Believing the world to be…
Daisies Daisies
Persona 85 mins By the midsixties, Ingmar Bergman had already conjured many of the cinema's most unforgettable images. But with the radical PERSONA, this supreme artist attained new…
Persona Persona
F for Fake 89 mins Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In Orson Welles's free-form documentary F FOR FAKE, the legendary filmmaker (and self-described charlatan) gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career…
F for Fake F for Fake
Belle de Jour 101 mins Catherine Deneuve's porcelain perfection hides a cracked interior in one of the actress's most iconic roles: Severine, a Paris housewife who begins secretly spending her…
Belle de Jour Belle de Jour
Sans Soleil 2 videos Chris Marker, filmmaker, poet, novelist, photographer, editor, and now videographer and digital multimedia artist, has been challenging moviegoers, philosophers, and himself for years with his…
Sans Soleil Sans Soleil

American Avant-Garde

Eraserhead 90 mins In David Lynch's "dream of dark and troubling things," Henry is left alone in his apartment to care for his deformed baby and has a…
Eraserhead Eraserhead
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm 76 mins In his one-of-a-kind fiction/documentary hybrid, director William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York's Central Park, leaving them to try to figure…
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Symbiopsychotaxiplasm
Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film - The 1940s 6 videos Avant-garde films from the 1940's
Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film - The 1940s Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film - The 1940s
Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film - The 1920s 5 videos Avant-garde films from the 1920's
Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film - The 1920s Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film - The 1920s
Intolerance - Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages 2 videos D.W. Griffith's epic intercuts between four separate stories about man's inhumanity to man. In Babylon, pacifist Prince Belshazzar is brought down by warring religious factions.…
Intolerance - Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages Intolerance - Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The Darkness of Day 27 mins The Darkness of Day is a haunting meditation on suicide. It is comprised entirely of found 16mm footage that had been discarded. The sadness, the…
The Darkness of Day The Darkness of Day
Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film - The 1960s 5 videos Avant-garde films from the 1960's
Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film - The 1960s Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film - The 1960s

Canadian Avant-Garde

Careful 100 mins Guy Maddin's early masterpiece takes place in a 19th-century Alpine village where the wary residents --adult, child and animal!--must speak softly and tread lightly lest…
Careful Careful
Mecanix 70 mins In this fairytale with characters as scary as the worst nightmare, we enter an unknown world. Mecanix tells the story of another world, where the…
Mecanix Mecanix
Incarnation: Short Films Anthology 81 mins Conceived by the underground film society Cinema Abattoir, the Incarnation short films anthology is a gem of contemporary experimental and avant-garde cinema. Filmmakers from different…
Incarnation: Short Films Anthology Incarnation: Short Films Anthology
Cinema of Ruins - The Films of Solomon Nagler 8 videos Canadian Institute for Exploratory Cinemas presents the short film anthology of Canadian artist Solomon Nagler. This collection contains the complete anthology, as well as recent…
Cinema of Ruins - The Films of Solomon Nagler Cinema of Ruins - The Films of Solomon Nagler
Ruins Rider 50 mins Filmed in the lost territories of the Balkans, RUINS RIDER portrays the secret ruins that triggered trances over the past centuries. Using an array of…
Ruins Rider Ruins Rider
Listen to the City 66 mins I see a new world. Do you see it? If you listened to the city back in 1984, here's what it told you: there are…
Listen to the City Listen to the City
Contre-Oeil (Cross Eye) 14 videos Canadian Institute for Exploratory Cinemas presents Cross-Eye, an anthology of Quebec and Canadian experimental film and video art (1960-2011) . From surrealist refractions to punk…
Contre-Oeil (Cross Eye) Contre-Oeil (Cross Eye)
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Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present
Music Box Films
Seductive, fearless, and outrageous, Marina Abramovic has been redefining what art is for nearly forty years. Using her own body as a vehicle, pushing herself beyond her physical and mental limits--and at times risking her life in the process--she creates…
Persona
Persona
Janus Films (The Criterion Collection)
By the midsixties, Ingmar Bergman had already conjured many of the cinema's most unforgettable images. But with the radical PERSONA, this supreme artist attained new levels of visual poetry. In the first of a series of legendary performances for Bergman,…
Eraserhead
Eraserhead
Janus Films (The Criterion Collection)
In David Lynch's "dream of dark and troubling things," Henry is left alone in his apartment to care for his deformed baby and has a series of strange encounters with the beautiful girl across the hall and the woman living…
Caravaggio
Caravaggio
Zeitgeist Films
Derek Jarman's most profound reflection on art, sexuality and identity retells the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld. CARAVAGGIO incorporates the painter's precise aesthetic into the movie's own…
Weekend
Weekend
Janus Films (The Criterion Collection)
This scathing late-sixties satire from Jean-Luc Godard is one of cinema's great anarchic works. Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a…
F for Fake
F for Fake
Janus Films (The Criterion Collection)
Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In Orson Welles's free-form documentary F FOR FAKE, the legendary filmmaker (and self-described charlatan) gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career -- the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies. Beginning with portraits of…
Belle de Jour
Belle de Jour
Janus Films (The Criterion Collection)
Catherine Deneuve's porcelain perfection hides a cracked interior in one of the actress's most iconic roles: Severine, a Paris housewife who begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello. This surreal and erotic late-sixties daydream from provocateur for…
Funeral Parade of Roses - Bara no sôretsu
Funeral Parade of Roses - Bara no sôretsu
Arbelos Films
Director Toshio Matsumoto's shattering, kaleidoscopic masterpiece is one of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the late 1960s: a headlong dive into a dazzling, unseen Tokyo night-world of drag queen bars and fabulous divas, fueled by booze, drugs, fuzz…
La Jetée
La Jetée
Janus Films (The Criterion Collection)
Chris Marker, filmmaker, poet, novelist, photographer, editor, and now videographer and digital multimedia artist, has been challenging moviegoers, philosophers, and himself for years with his complex queries about time, memory, and the rapid advancement of life on this planet. Marker's…
Goodbye to Language
Goodbye to Language
Kino Lorber Edu
Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival , Goodbye to Language is a triumphant masterpiece from Jean-Luc Godard. The film follows a couple whose relationship breaks down along with the images, which in its second half…
Andrei Rublev
Andrei Rublev
Janus Films (The Criterion Collection)
Immediately suppressed by the Soviets in 1966, Andrei Tarkovsky's epic masterpiece is a sweeping medieval tale of Russia's greatest icon painter. Too experimental, too frightening, too violent, and too politically complicated to be released officially, ANDREI RUBLEV has existed only…
Daisies
Daisies
Janus Films (The Criterion Collection)
Maybe the Czech New Wave's most anarchic entry, Vera Chytilova's absurdist farce follows the misadventures of two brash young women. Believing the world to be "spoiled," they embark on a series of pranks in which nothing--food, clothes, men, war--is taken…
Sans Soleil
Sans Soleil
Janus Films (The Criterion Collection)
Chris Marker, filmmaker, poet, novelist, photographer, editor, and now videographer and digital multimedia artist, has been challenging moviegoers, philosophers, and himself for years with his complex queries about time, memory, and the rapid advancement of life on this planet. SANS…
2 videos
Five Obstructions
Five Obstructions
Kino Lorber Edu
Lars von Trier now enters the world of documentary filmmaking alongside his idol, Danish filmmaker Jorgen Leth. In 1967, Leth made a 12 minute feature film called The Perfect Human. In the year 2000, von Trier challenged Jorgen Leth to…
Alice
Alice
First Run Features
When Alice follows the White Rabbit into Wonderland, so begins this dream expedition into the astonishing landscape of childhood, through many dangerous adventures, and ultimately to Alice's trial before the King and Queen of Hearts. Czech animator Jan Svankmajer has…
What is Cinema? - The Past, Present, and Future of the Cinematic Medium
What is Cinema? - The Past, Present, and Future of the Cinematic Medium
Cohen Film Collection
Academy Award -winning filmmaker Chuck Workman's documentary WHAT IS CINEMA? tackles the question of its title through over 100 clips and new interviews with filmmakers such as Mike Leigh, Jonas Mekas, David Lynch, Robert Altman, Kelly Reichardt, Costa-Gavras, and Michael…
Man With A Movie Camera - Musical Accompaniment by The Alloy Orchestra
Man With A Movie Camera - Musical Accompaniment by The Alloy Orchestra
Part of the Series: Dziga Vertov: The Man with the Movie Camera
Flicker Alley
Named the best documentary film of all time by Sight and Sound, it is presented here in its entirety for the first time since its original premiere. Discovered and restored at EYE Film Institute in Amsterdam--with extensive digital treatment by…
Careful
Careful
Zeitgeist Films
Guy Maddin's early masterpiece takes place in a 19th-century Alpine village where the wary residents --adult, child and animal!--must speak softly and tread lightly lest they cause an avalanche. But sexual frenzies teem in this world of repression, setting off…
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Janus Films (The Criterion Collection)
A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS serves up an endlessly looping, nonlinear fairy tale,…
The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye - 6 Short Films by a Groundbreaking Female Filmmaker
The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye - 6 Short Films by a Groundbreaking Female Filmmaker
First Run Features
Vilified by conservatives in Congress, defended by major newspapers, and celebrated by audiences and festivals around the world as one of the most provocative, humorous and important filmmakers of our time, Cheryl Dunye practically invented a new form of cinema…