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Computer Chess

Avant Garde · Comedy · RT Certified Fresh

Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers thirty-some years ago, Computer Chess transports viewers to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the human spirit seemed a little more up for grabs.

Cosmos

Drama · World Cinema · Avant Garde

The late Andrzej Zulawski's final film, a literary adaptation suffused with his trademark freneticism, transforms Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz's novel of the same name into an ominous and manic exploration of desire.

Walden

Avant Garde · Art Documentaries

Walden, Jonas Mekas' first completed diary film, is an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde arts scene of the 1960s, featuring many of Mekas'friends of that period, including Andy Warhol, John Lennon, Yoko Ono and The Velvet Underground.

Film Socialisme

World Cinema · Avant Garde · Culture

Legendary director Jean-Luc Godard (Contempt) triumphantly returns to the screen with FILM SOCIALISME, "a remarkable and beautiful and challenging" (Glenn Kenny, MSN) essay on the state of Mediterranean life, culture and history.

The Forbidden Room

Drama · Avant Garde · RT Certified Fresh

From Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson. A never-before-seen woodsman mysteriously appears aboard a submarine that's been trapped deep under water for months with an unstable cargo. As the terrified crew make their way through the corridors of the doomed vessel, they find themselves on a voyage into the or…

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Avant Garde · Documentary · Art Documentaries

This documentary provides a vivid introduction to one of the most important, yet perpetually marginalized, realms of filmmaking: Avant-garde cinema. In its exploration of this expansive domain, FREE RADICALS privileges rare interviews with filmmakers in the avant-garde tradition and includes several…

The Juche Idea

Culture · Avant Garde · Documentary

Inspired by the real-life story of the South Korean director kidnapped in the 70's to invigorate the North Korean film industry, the film follows Yoon Jung Lee, a young video artist invited to work at a Juche art residency on a North Korean collective farm. The story is told through the films she ma…

L'Age D'or

World Cinema · Avant Garde · Cannes Film Festival

L'AGE D'OR, the surrealist masterpiece of 20th century cinema is now available on DVD to challenge, arouse, unnerve, amuse, and galvanize the uninitiated for generations to come.

The Last of England

World Cinema · Avant Garde · Horror

An apocalyptic roar of a movie, this is Derek Jarman's (Sebastiane) dizzying lament for the country he once knew and what he feared it would become. It is both deeply personal and grimly historical, and is undoubtedly one of the most important British films of all time.

Lost Lost Lost

Avant Garde · Art Documentaries

Lost Lost Lost, comprised of fourteen years of footage, documents Jonas Mekas' early years in New York as he and his brother Adolfas build their new life in America, discovering the city and the burgeoning film and arts community of the 1950 and 60s downtown scene.

Man With A Movie Camera

World Cinema · Avant Garde · Documentary

This dawn-to-dusk view of the Soviet Union offers a montage of urban Russian life, showing the people of the city at work and at play Considered one of the most innovative and influential films of the silent era. USSR. 1929. 68min. B&W.

Maya Deren Collection

Academy Award Winners · Avant Garde · Experimental

Maya Deren is one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of all time and Kino Classics and Re:Voir are proud to present new 2K restorations of her essential work. Along with being a filmmaker, Deren was a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, and she …

Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

Avant Garde · Fine Art · Art Documentaries

In 1993, artist Anselm Kiefer left Buchen, Germany for La Ribaute, a derelict silk factory near Barjac, a town in the south of France. Sophie Fiennes' film sheds insight into the years that Kiefer spent there, engaged in a fervent process of artistic creation, in order to shape the estate according …

Le Quattro Volte

World Cinema · Spirituality · Avant Garde

Inspired by Pythagoras’s belief in four-fold transmigration — by which the soul is passed from human to animal to vegetable to mineral — Michelangelo Frammartino’s wondrous docu-essay traces the cycle of life through the daily rituals of life in the southern Italian region of…

The Rape of the Vampire

Cult · Vampires · Avant Garde

A psychiatrist (Bernard Letrou) ventures to a remote castle to convince a brood of four vampire sisters that they are misguided, brainwashed by superstitious villagers, and not truly creatures of the Supernatural.

Silent Avant-Garde

Avant Garde

SILENT AVANT-GARDE offers an essential collection of 21 short art film experiments in HD to 5K scans made from 35mm and 16mm picture elements.

The Son of Joseph

Avant Garde · Religion · Fine Art

The American-born expatriate filmmaker Eugène Green exists in his own special artistic orbit. His latest movie, The Son of Joseph, is perhaps his most buoyant. A nativity story reboot that gently skewers French cultural pretensions, it features newcomer Victor Ezenfis as a discontented Parisi…

Three Songs Of Lenin

Silent · Avant Garde · Documentary

With exquisite images and masterful editing, THREE SONGS OF LENIN paints a living portrait of Vladimir Lenin and the great Soviet state he built that surpasses all the dry rhetoric of history books.