A list of avant-garde and experimental films released in the 1940s.

TitleDirectorCastNationNotes
1941
Moods of the SeaSlavko Vorkapić, John HoffmanUnited StatesBlack & white, sound (Felix Mendelssohn: The Hebrides (overture)[1]
Who Has Been Rocking My Dream BoatKenneth AngerUnited StatesLost film.[2]
1942
By Night with Torch and Spear Joseph Cornell United States
Lambeth Walk - Nazi StyleCharles A. RidleyUnited KingdomBritish propaganda short, which "remixes" marching Nazis to a pop song.[3]
Tinsel TreeKenneth AngerUnited StatesLost film[4]
Variations on a CircleJames Whitney (filmmaker)United StatesColor, silent. Abstract animation, shot in 8mm. [5]
1943
AllegrettoOskar FischingerUnited StatesAbstract animation, color, sound. Third version, completed in 1943[6]
The Geography of the BodyWillard MaasWillard Maas, Marie MenkenUnited StatesFilm poem, text written and read by George Barker (poet)[7][8]
Meshes of the AfternoonMaya Deren, Alexander HammidMaya Deren, Alexander HammidUnited StatesBlack & white; sound by composer Teiji Ito added in 1959. Established the movement known as "New American Cinema."[9][10]
The Witch's CradleMaya Deren, Marcel DuchampMarcel Duchamp, Pajarito MattaUnited StatesBlack & white; silent. Never finished; survives as workprint or gathering of trims.[11][12]
1944
At LandMaya DerenMaya Deren, Alexander Hammid, Parker Tyler, John CageUnited States[13]
1945
The Eye and the Ear Stefan Themerson, Franciszka Themerson United Kingdom
Le Vampire Jean Painlevé France
Out-Takes From a Study in Choreography for CameraMaya DerenTalley BeattyUnited States[14]
A Study in Choreography for CameraMaya DerenTalley BeattyUnited States[15]
Visual Variations on NoguchiMarie MenkenUnited States[16]
1946
The Potted PsalmSidney Peterson, James BroughtonBeatrix Perry, Harry HonigUnited StatesLive action surrealist short.[17]
Ritual in Transfigured TimeMaya DerenMaya Deren, Rita Christiani, Frank Westbrook, Anaïs NinUnited States[18]
1947
The CageSidney PetersonUnited States
Dreams That Money Can BuyHans RichterMax ErnstUnited States[19]
FireworksKenneth AngerKenneth Anger, Bill Seltzer, Gordon GrayUnited States[20]
Forest MurmursSlavko Vorkapić, John HoffmanUnited StatesBlack & white, sound; made for MGM, but withheld from release. Jacobs dates it to 1941; most other sources give 1947.[21]
Lady in the LakeRobert MontgomeryRobert Montgomery, Audrey TotterUnited States[22]
Motion Painting No. 1Oskar FischingerUnited States[23]
Private Life of a Cat Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid United States
Le Tempestaire Jean Epstein France
TransmutationJordan BelsonUnited StatesBelson's first film, shown at Art in Cinema screenings in San Francisco in the early '50s; lost film.[24]
1948
Du sang, de la volupté et de la mortGregory MarkopoulosUnited StatesColor, 70 min. Begun in Los Angeles in 1947; finished in Toledo, Ohio. In three parts: Psyche, Lysis & Charmides.[25]
In the StreetHelen Levitt, Janice Loeb, James AgeeUnited StatesSilent; sound version issued in 1952 [26][27]
Meditation on ViolenceMaya DerenChao Li ChiUnited States[28]
The Petrified DogSidney PetersonGail Randall, Marie Hirsh, Jo LandorUnited States[29][30]
Weegee's New YorkWeegeeUnited States[31][32]
1949
Christmas, U.S.A.Gregory MarkopoulosUnited States
The Lead ShoesSidney PetersonUnited States
MedusaMaya DerenUnited States[33]
Pacific 231Jean MitryFrance[34]
Puce MomentKenneth AngerUnited States[35]

Notes

  1. ↑ Horak, Jan Christopher (1995). Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-Garde, 1919-1945. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 38. ISBN 0-299-14680-4.
  2. ↑ Sitney, P. Adams (2002). Visionary Film: The American Avant Garde 1943-2000 third edition. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 84. ISBN 0-19-514885-1.
  3. ↑ Public Domain Review, "Lambeth Walk - Nazi Style"
  4. ↑ Lewis, David. "Tinsel Tree". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
  5. ↑ Los Angeles Filmforum, "Alternative Projections: John Whitney"
  6. ↑ Oskar Fischinger Filmography
  7. ↑ P. Adams Sitney, "Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde 1943–2000. Oxford University Press, 2002 pg. 75
  8. ↑ Lewis, David. "Geography of the Body". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
  9. ↑ MOMA Object Page
  10. ↑ Lux Entry Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ↑ Dangerous Minds: ‘The Witch’s Cradle’: Watch Maya Deren and Marcel Duchamp’s stunning occult short
  12. ↑ Charney, Leo. "Meshes of the Afternoon". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
  13. ↑ Lewis, David. "At Land". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
  14. ↑ Lewis, David. "A Study in Choreography for Camera". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
  15. ↑ Lewis, David. "A Study in Choreography for Camera". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
  16. ↑ Lewis, David. "Visual Variations on Noguchi". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
  17. ↑ MUBI entry
  18. ↑ Lewis, David. "Ritual in Transfigured Time". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
  19. ↑ Erickson, Hal. "Dreams That Money Can Buy". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
  20. ↑ Crow, Jonathan. "Fireworks". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
  21. ↑ Lewis Jacobs, "Experimental Cinema in America II," Hollywood Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 3, Spring 1948, reprinted in Smoodin, Eric Loren; Martin, Ann (2002). Hollywood Quarterly: Film Culture in Postwar America, 1945-1957. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. p. 43. ISBN 0-520-23274-7.
  22. ↑ Jake Hinkson -- Through the Camera's Eye: Experiments with Subjective Camera in Film Noir
  23. ↑ "Motion Painting No. 1". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
  24. ↑ Experimental Cinema -- Jordan Belson
  25. ↑ Harvard Film Archive Markopoulos retrospective
  26. ↑ "In the Street". Film, Video. Library of Congress. Retrieved October 27, 2020.
  27. ↑ "In the Street". Little Fugitive / In the Street / Quiet One. UCLA Library Film & Television Archive. Retrieved October 27, 2020.
  28. ↑ "Mediation on Violence". allmovie. Rovicorp. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
  29. ↑ The Worldwide Celluloid Massacre review
  30. ↑ The Sound of Eye: The Petrified Dog
  31. ↑ Visionary Film: Weegee
  32. ↑ ICP: Weegee's New York
  33. ↑ Lewis, David. "Medusa". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
  34. ↑ "Pacific 231". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
  35. ↑ Lewis, David. "Puce Moment". Allmovie. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
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