Probably the best known surrealist avant garde movie, co-created by none other than Salvador Dalí. He wanted it to piss everyone off, and was annoyed that people seemed to like it.
Category Archives: Avant Garde
MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS (1985)
The story of famous Japanese author who also had his own private army and tried to overthrow the government, as one does, told in such a highly stylized manner that I honestly lost track of it.
THE CONNECTION (1961)
This is sort of the closest thing you’ll find a movie by and for the Beat Movement, an interesting exercise but I’m not sure it actually works as a film.
8 ½ (1963)
Federico Fellini couldn’t figure out how to make a movie and made a movie about not being able to make a movie. I’m still trying to figure it out.
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
Kubrick’s Science Fiction masterpiece is more of a grand artistic statement than a movie. I love it so much.
GANJA & HESS (1973)
An “experimental” horror movie that’s about vampires, sort of, and… other things? What things you ask? I’m not sure.
RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME (1946)
A meditation on… things, by the godmother of Avant Garde filmmaking.
