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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
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present 106 mins Seductive, fearless, and outrageous, Marina Abramovic has been redefining what art is for nearly 40 years. Using her own body as a vehicle, pushing herself…
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present
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
Andrei Rublev 208 mins 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,…
Andrei Rublev Andrei Rublev
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
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
Leviathan - An Experimental Portrait of the Commercial Fishing Industry 87 mins One of the most critically-acclaimed documentaries in recent years, LEVIATHAN is a groundbreaking, immersive portrait of the contemporary commercial fishing industry. Directed by the award-winning…
Leviathan - An Experimental Portrait of the Commercial Fishing Industry Leviathan - An Experimental Portrait of the Commercial Fishing Industry
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

Experimental Documentary

Leviathan - An Experimental Portrait of the Commercial Fishing Industry 87 mins One of the most critically-acclaimed documentaries in recent years, LEVIATHAN is a groundbreaking, immersive portrait of the contemporary commercial fishing industry. Directed by the award-winning…
Leviathan - An Experimental Portrait of the Commercial Fishing Industry Leviathan - An Experimental Portrait of the Commercial Fishing Industry
Cuadecuc Vampir 67 mins A major figure of Spanish cinema, Pere Portabella's contributions have included a variety of roles (such as convincing Bunuel to return to Spain and shoot…
Cuadecuc Vampir Cuadecuc Vampir
Fraud - A Story of a Family, Pieced Together from Home Movies 53 mins A family's home movies document a desperate crime spree and the bid to outrun the consequences. Born from a colossal trove of innocuous uploads to…
Fraud - A Story of a Family, Pieced Together from Home Movies Fraud - A Story of a Family, Pieced Together from Home Movies
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

Experimental Cinema

Privilege 102 mins Yvonne Rainer's sixth feature is a genuinely subversive movie about menopause. Out of a subject that has been virtually invisible on film, Rainer has fashioned…
Privilege Privilege
The Angelic Conversation 78 mins "My most austere work, but also the closest to my heart." So Derek Jarman described THE ANGELIC CONVERSATION, his lyrical celebration of gay love set…
The Angelic Conversation The Angelic Conversation
MURDER and murder 115 mins From acclaimed feminist filmmaker Yvonne Rainer, MURDER AND MURDER is a middle-aged love story between Mildred, a life-long lesbian, and Doris, who is in love…
MURDER and murder MURDER and murder
Glitterbug 55 mins A stunning collage of ecstatic Super-8 fragments, GLITTERBUG is a loving tribute to Derek Jarman posthumously assembled by friends from his prolific filming of everyday…
Glitterbug Glitterbug
Journeys From Berlin/1971 125 mins To explore the ramifications of terrorism, Rainer employs an extended therapy session--in which an American woman speaks to a series of psychiatrists--to evoke the daily…
Journeys From Berlin/1971 Journeys From Berlin/1971
Kristina Talking Pictures 91 mins Yvonne Rainer continued her preoccupation with the contradictions between public and private personas with this story of a female lion tamer from Budapest who comes…
Kristina Talking Pictures Kristina Talking Pictures
Film About A Woman Who... 105 mins Yvonne Rainer's landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliche and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of a…
Film About A Woman Who... Film About A Woman Who...

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
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
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
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
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
FuckkkYouuu 9 mins An experimental short featuring sound design by hip hop pioneer Flying Lotus. With the ability to travel in time, a lonely girl finds love and…
FuckkkYouuu FuckkkYouuu

Experimental Artists

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
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
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
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
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
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
Derek 77 mins Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton personally conducts an intimate cinematic commemoration of the life, times, and work of UK filmmaker, artist, and renegade Derek Jarman…
Derek Derek

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
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
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
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 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
Unseen Cinema 3: Light Rhythms - Music and Abstractions 18 videos Light Rhythms is part of the film retrospective Unseen Cinema that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. The rhythmic elements of cinema are explored by artists…
Unseen Cinema 3: Light Rhythms - Music and Abstractions Unseen Cinema 3: Light Rhythms - Music and Abstractions

Canadian Avant-Garde

Cowards Bend The Knee 65 mins Adapted from a ten-part peephole installation, COWARDS BEND THE KNEE is "jam-packed with enough kinetically photographed action to seem like a never-ending cliffhanger. Set in…
Cowards Bend The Knee Cowards Bend The Knee
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
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)
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
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
A Rebours 12 videos Canadian Institute for Exploratory Cinemas presents this transgressive short film compilation. Conceived by the underground film society Cinema Abattoir, the A Rebours short film anthology…
A Rebours A Rebours
Nightmare at School 9 mins Who hasn't felt apprehensive at the thought of starting high school? This is the central theme of this short animated film. Playing on imagination and…
Nightmare at School Nightmare at School
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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,…
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…
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 40 years. Using her own body as a vehicle, pushing herself beyond her limits and at times risking her life in the process she creates performances…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Leviathan - An Experimental Portrait of the Commercial Fishing Industry
Leviathan - An Experimental Portrait of the Commercial Fishing Industry
Cinema Guild
One of the most critically-acclaimed documentaries in recent years, LEVIATHAN is a groundbreaking, immersive portrait of the contemporary commercial fishing industry. Directed by the award-winning filmmakers of Sweetgrass and Foreign Parts , LEVIATHAN is a purely visceral, cinematic experience. Nominated…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Privilege
Privilege
Zeitgeist Films
Yvonne Rainer's sixth feature is a genuinely subversive movie about menopause. Out of a subject that has been virtually invisible on film, Rainer has fashioned a witty, risky work about sexual identity and the unequal economies of race, gender and…
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…
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…
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…
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