This is a list of avant-garde and experimental films released between 1960 and 1964. Unless where noted, all films had sound and were in black and white.

TitleDirectorCastNationNotes
1960
Actua-TiltJean Herman (Jean Vautrin)Monique Le Porrier, Claude-Jean PhillipeFrance[1]
Arnulf RainerPeter KubelkaAustria
Bäume in Herbst (Trees in Autumn) Kurt Kren Austria
The DeadStan BrakhageKenneth AngerUnited States[2]
The Flower ThiefRon RiceTaylor MeadUnited States[3]
Savage Eye Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers, Joseph Strick United States
Vasarely' Peter Kassovitz France Music, "NEG-ALE," by Iannis Xenakis[4]
1961
Allures Jordan Belson United StatesAbstract animation, color
The Autumn FeastPiero Heliczer, Jeff KeenPiero Heliczer, Kate HeliczerUnited KingdomBlack and white/color, sound on tape [5]
Critique de la séparation Guy Debord France
Dadascope Hans Richter United States
A Fire Ebrahim Golestan Iran
Forgotten Faces Peter Watkins United Kingdom
Mr Hayashi Bruce Baillie United States
Night TideCurtis HarringtonDennis Hopper, Margaret CameronUnited States[6]
On Sundays Bruce Baillie Jean Wong, Roy Ferguson United States Begun in 1960. Baillie's first film, a hybrid of documentary and experimental narrative.[7][8]
The Sin of JesusRobert FrankRoberts Blossom, Julie BovassoUnited StatesBased on story by Isaac Babel, music by Morton Feldman.[9][10]
Thigh Line Lyre TriangularStan BrakhageJane BrakhageUnited States[2]
1962
Baud'larian CapersKen JacobsUnited States
Blue MosesStan BrakhageRobert BensonUnited States[2]
Dog Star Man: PreludeStan BrakhageStan Brakhage, Jane BrakhageUnited States[2]
Heaven and Earth Magic Harry Smith United States [11]
The House is Black Forugh Farrokhzad Iran
La JetéeChris MarkerHélène Chatelain, Davos HanichFrance[12]
Regardez-moi, cela suffit Ben (Ben Vautier) France
Sonne halt! Ferry Radax Konrad Bayer Austria
Speak John Latham United Kingdom
Thanatopsis Ed Emshwiller United States
1963
Blonde CobraKen Jacobs, Bob FleischnerJack Smith, Jerry SimsUnited StatesFilmed in 1959-60; completed by Jacobs in 1963[13]
By the Sea Pat O'Neill United States
Christmas on EarthBarbara RubinGerard MalangaUnited StatesBlack and white
ChumlumRon RiceUnited States
The Death of P'townKen JacobsUnited States
Dog Star Man: Part IStan BrakhageStan Brakhage, Jane BrakhageUnited States[2]
The Existentialist Leon Prochnik Ruth Abramson, Gilbert Archer, Edward Blair United States
Flaming CreaturesJack SmithJack Smith, Mario Montez, Judith MalinaUnited StatesColor[14]
Little Stabs at HappinessKen JacobsJack Smith, Jerry SimsUnited StatesColor; partly filmed in 1959-60 and often dated to 1960, but film states 1963[15][16]
Mothlight Stan Brakhage United States
Normal Love Jack Smith Diana Baccus, Beverly Grant, Mario Montez United States Color[14]
O necem jinem (Something Different) Vera Chytilová Vladimir Bosak, Eva Bosáková, Dagmar Cejnkova Czechoslovakia
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom ManRon RiceWinifred Bryan, Taylor MeadUnited States
Scorpio RisingKenneth AngerBruce ByronUnited StatesColor
Sun in Your HeadWolf VostellWest GermanyEarly video art, captured on film; converted back to video in 1967[17]
Towers Open FireAntony BalchWilliam S. Burroughs, Brion GysinUnited KingdomBlack and white/color, first shown in 1966; written by Burroughs[18]
TV PlugKen JacobsUnited States
William Buys a ParrotAntony BalchWilliam S. BurroughsUnited KingdomColor[19]
1964
Blue Rider (Godard-art) Tomislav Gotovac Yugoslavia
The Brig Jonas Mekas Jim Anderson, Warren Finnerty United States
The Cool World Shirley Clarke Hampton Clanton United States Black and white, music by Dizzy Gillespie
Dog Star ManStan BrakhageUnited StatesBegun in 1961, color, silent[20]
Help! My Snowman's Burning DownCarson DavidsonBob LarkinUnited StatesIndependently produced surrealist comedy short, nominated for best short subject, Academy Awards 1965. Music by Gerry Mulligan.[21][22]
Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait Margaret Tait Hugh MacDiarmid United Kingdom
I Am Cuba Mikhail Kalotozov Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood Cuba
Soviet Union
It Happened Here Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo Pauline Murray, Sebastian Shaw United Kingdom
The Last Clean Shirt Alfred Leslie United States Dialogue by Frank O'Hara[23]
SleepAndy WarholJohn GiornoUnited StatesFilmed in July 1963; first shown in January 1964.[24]
Song 1Stan BrakhageStan Brakhage, Jane BrakhageUnited StatesPart of Songs cycle[2]
Song 2Stan BrakhageUnited StatesPart of Songs cycle[2]
Song 3Stan BrakhageUnited StatesPart of Songs cycle[2]
Song 4Stan BrakhageUnited StatesPart of Songs cycle[2]
Song 5Stan BrakhageJane BrakhageUnited StatesPart of Songs cycle[2]
Song 6Stan BrakhageUnited StatesPart of Songs cycle[2]
Song 7Stan BrakhageUnited StatesPart of Songs cycle[2]
Song 8Stan BrakhageUnited StatesPart of Songs cycle[2]

References

  1. ↑ Pratt Library 16mm Experimental Films Catalog entry
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Fred Camper Stan Brakhage filmography
  3. ↑ Ron Rice's The Flower Thief
  4. ↑ Mode Records Xenakis Edition 9
  5. ↑ Piero Heliczer Web Page Archived 2014-04-12 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ TCM Dennis Hopper Tribute: Night Tide
  7. ↑ Film-Maker's Coop Entry
  8. ↑ Light Cone Entry
  9. ↑ Film-Maker's Coop Entry
  10. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0201932/ imdb Entry]
  11. ↑ Heaven and Earth Magic (1962), retrieved 2017-08-21
  12. ↑ Criterion Collection La Jetée DVD
  13. ↑ P. Adams Sitney: Visionary Film [P. Adams Sitney - Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000. Oxford University Press, 2003, ppg. 315-319]
  14. 1 2 J. Hoberman: Up On the Roof
  15. ↑ Underground Film Guide entry Archived 2014-02-26 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ↑ Little Stabs at Happiness
  17. ↑ "UbuWeb Film & Video: 40jahrevideokunst.de : Sun in your head / Wolf Vostell (1963)".
  18. ↑ Rob Bridgett. An Appraisal of the Films of William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Anthony Balch in terms of Recent Avant Garde Theory, Bright Lights Film Journal Issue 39
  19. ↑ Timothy S. Murphy. Wising Up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs. University of California Press, 1997, pg. 207
  20. ↑ Brakhage filmography
  21. ↑ Internet Archive: Help!My Snowman's Burning Down
  22. ↑ http://www.afana.org/davidsoncarson.htm Carson Davidson Bio
  23. ↑ "Olivier Brossard on 'The Last Clean Shirt,' a film by Alfred Leslie & Frank O'Hara | Jacket2". jacket2.org. Retrieved 2017-08-21.
  24. ↑ Warholstars "Sleep"
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