In cinema, the avant-garde refers to the films experimenting with non-traditional form and content, often completely discarding standard narrative structure to explore the possibilities of the medium as an art form. Surrealism, abstract studies of light and form, Dadaism, and impressionistic studies of people and things figure heavily in early works of the genre. More recently, the avant-garde has expanded to include underground film, so-called "trash" cinema, and even some non-traditional documentaries. Andy Warhol spanned the early days of avant-garde as well as the more recent types by moving from such films as Empire (an eight-hour portrait of the Empire State Building) to Trash, a mostly improvised swim in the cinematic gutter with New York transvestites, prostitutes, and heroin addicts.

Featured Films:

Rating	MPAA	Year	Title
	R	2008	Waltz With Bashir
	NR	2007	Mister Lonely
		2007	[REC]
	NR	2007	My Winnipeg
		2006	Brand Upon the Brain!
	R	2006	Protagonist
	R	2006	Inland Empire
		2006	Klimt
		2005	Drawing Restraint 9
		2005	The Doctor
		2005	Lunacy
		2005	Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2
		2005	Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film
		2005	The Wild Blue Yonder
		2005	Who Killed Cock Robin?
		2005	Sugar
	R	2005	Last Days
		2005	Manderlay
		2004	The Raspberry Reich
	NR	2004	The Time We Killed
		2004	Tropical Malady
		2004	Palindromes
	NR	2004	A Hole in My Heart
	NR	2004	Innocence
		2004	Nahf
		2004	Notre Musique
		2004	Planet Earth: Dreams
		2004	Shiner
		2004	The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess
		2003	Greendale
		2003	Anatomy of Hell
		2003	The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Part 1 - The Moab Story
		2003	The Saddest Music in the World
		2003	The Missing
		2003	Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye
		2003	Tarnation
		2003	Cowards Bend the Knee
	R	2003	Dogville
		2003	Marathon
		2002	Russian Ark
	PG	2002	Naqoyqatsi
		2002	Reflections of Evil
		2002	Nijinsky: From the Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
		2002	The Tracker
		2002	Cremaster 3
		2002	Ten
		2002	Sud Sanaeha
		2002	Claire
[Next]

Browse More Movies:
# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z