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1	The Residents: Eskimo more movies like this This release from Music Video Distributors features a series of slide images over a digitally remastered edition of the classic album Eskimo by the Residents. Among the half-dozen songs are "The Walrus Hunt," "A Spirit Steals a Child," "The Festival of Death," and "The Angry Anakok." Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide see all copies from £10.02! new only from £10.02!
2	Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film (2005) more movies like this Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film 1894-1941 compiles works from a variety of directors. These films, many of which have been unseen since their original exhibitions, were provided by a variety of film archives. The films showcase the many techniques developed in the earliest days of not only avant-garde cinema but in cinema itself. ... see all copies from £53.86! new only from £53.86!
3	Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927) more movies like this directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Walter Ruttmann This classic German documentary is a valentine to the "new" Berlin of the late 1920s, enjoying a renaissance after the dregs of the Depression. Director Walter Ruttman's five-reel symphony begins at dawn and ends at midnight, showing Berliners at hard work by day and enjoying the city's boisterous nightlife. Essentially a feature-length montage- ... see all copies from £11.98!
4	Daisies (1967) more movies like this directed by Véra Chytilová An exercise in avant-garde cinema that is freshly humorous and accessible, Daisies is a dark comedy that eschews a traditional narrative for a Dadaist construction of events. Perpetually dressed in vibrantly corresponding costumes and dark black eyeliner, Marie and Marie work together to create mischief. Seeing the world ruined and values ... see all copies from £15.23! new only from £15.23!
5	Decasia (2002) more movies like this directed by Bill Morrison Experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison created this non-narrative feature, which derives a large portion of its visual beauty from the physical nature of the film medium itself. Decasia is primarily compiled from a wealth of old and damaged footage, in which the scratches, scraped emulsion, bubbles, streaks, and decaying nitrate add an extra ... see all copies from £14.03! new only from £14.03!
6	Legende d'Eer (2005) more movies like this Conceptual artist Iannis Xenakis (who died in 2001) composed La Legende d'Eer , an electroacoustic work for seven-track tape, to commemorate the opening of the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1978. It featured scattered shards of orchestral sound and cacophonous noises. Xenakis ran the tape continuously for several months straight (in a loop) as an ... see all copies from £18.21! new only from £18.21!
7	Dreamwood (1972) more movies like this directed by James Broughton Dreamwood is one of the most abstract of avant-garde poet, playwright, and director James Broughton's works. There is no plot; the film wanders from one sight to another, dwelling on some and rushing past others, in the manner of a daydream. Among the images glimpsed are angels, hippies, statues, and icons. Throughout, Broughton touches on the ... see all copies from £7.56!
8	Outside Out (2000) more movies like this directed by Mike Gordon In order to achieve true musical greatness, an aspiring young musician attempts to "unlearn" everything he knows about playing guitar in this semi-experimental directorial debut from Phish bassist Mike Gordon. Though Rick (Jimi Stout) can feel great music brewing within him, his guitar playing leaves much to be desired. Things take a turn for the ... see all copies from £6.48! new only from £6.48!
9	History Lessons (2000) more movies like this directed by Barbara Hammer A pioneering lesbian filmmaker, Barbara Hammer has made more than 70 shorts and features over the course of her career. History Lessons, her documentary about lesbianism throughout the 20th century, combines radical sexual politics with a healthy dose of tongue-in-cheek humor. Using archival footage that goes back as far as the dawn of cinema, ... see all copies from £3.23! new only from £12.05!
10	Rapoon: Alien Glyph Morphology (2005) more movies like this Ambient music mainstay Rapoon (aka Robin Storey) offers a look at his more visual side in this release featuring six of the versatile artist's seldom-seen short films. By utilizing a wide variety of visual techniques including slides, slow motion, and montage, Rapoon offers the ideal visual counterpart to the rich and textured sounds of his ... see all copies from £12.60! new only from £14.24!
11 view cover	Migrating Forms (1999) more movies like this directed by James Fotopoulos Chicago-based avant garde filmmaker James Fotopoulos directs Migrating Forms, a minimalist exercise in sexual dysfunction. A woman with blonde hair (Rebecca Lewis) and a stone-faced man (Preston Baty) have anti-erotic sex, smoke cigarettes, and drink water. They are watched by the man's cat. The scene repeats itself while each parter develops a ... see all copies from £16.97! new only from £16.97!
12 view cover	Ostinato vs Timoschi: Deconstructing Major Tom more movies like this The sci-fi mythology of glam-rock superstar David Bowie comes to the screen in this film based on playwright Christian Wiehle's Major Tom Science Fiction Performance and starring Wobine Bosch in the role of the man whose existential journey through the far reaches of space held captive an entire generation of music lovers. Jason Buchanan, All ... see all copies from £7.36! new only from £7.36!
13 view cover	Resistance[S], Vol. II (2007) more movies like this The compilation release Resistance[S], Vol. II brings into a single collection a panoply of experimental film and video-driven performance artworks, created in numerous countries across North Africa and the Middle East. The collection at hand showcases nine artists with variegated histories and backgrounds; all, however, share common threads in ... see all copies from £12.70! new only from £12.70!
14 view cover	Audiovisualize: Mixed by Addictive TV more movies like this The performance art release Audiovisualize: Mixed by Addictive TV sets a series of upbeat and cutting-edge video edits to a techno soundtrack featuring such musical artists as Eclectic Method, Bauhaus, Kane & Fodel and Red-Ochre. Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide see all copies from £10.77! new only from £10.77!

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