List of avant-garde films of the 1960s: 1965–1969
This is a list of avant-garde and experimental films released between 1965 and 1969. Unless otherwise noted, all films had sound and were in color.
| Title | Director(s) | Cast | Nation | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | ||||||
| Brus.Wuenscht. Euch.Seine. Weinachten. | Kurt Kren | Günter Brus | Austria | Documentation of a Vienna Actionist piece | ||
| Derby | Jože Pogačnik | Yugoslavia | Short documentary of a football match between Olimpija Ljubljana and NK Maribor | |||
| Dirty | Stephen Dwoskin | United Kingdom | ||||
| Les Escargots | René Laloux, Roland Topor | France | Surreal animation | |||
| Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc. | Owen Land | United States | ||||
| Fuses | Carolee Schneemann | United States | ||||
| Kustom Kar Kommandos | Kenneth Anger | United States | ||||
| Now! | Santiago Álvarez | Cuba | ||||
| Peyote Queen | Storm de Hirsch | United States | Color. | |||
| Ruka (The Hand) | Jiří Trnka | Czechoslovakia | Satirical animation | |||
| The Saragossa Manuscript | Wojciech Has | Iga Cembrzyńska, Zbigniew Cybulski Joanna Jędryka | Poland | |||
| Schmeerguntz | Gunvor Nelson, Dorothy Wiley | United States | ||||
| Silber - Aktion Brus | Kurt Kren | Günter Brus | Austria | Documentation of a Vienna Actionist piece | ||
| Vinyl | Andy Warhol | Gerard Malanga, Edie Sedgwick | United States | Black and white; written by Ronald Tavel, based on Anthony Burgess' novel A Clockwork Orange[1] | ||
| The War Game | Peter Watkins | Michael Aspel, Peter Graham | United Kingdom | Made for BBC TV, but not broadcast until 1985 | ||
| Wholly Communion | Peter Whitehead | Allen Ginsberg, Michael Horovitz, Ernst Jandl, Adrian Mitchell | United Kingdom | Documents a poetry event held on 11 June 1965 called the International Poetry Incarnation | ||
| 1966 | ||||||
| All My Life | Bruce Baillie | United States | ||||
| Andy Warhol's Silver Flotations | Willard Maas | United Kingdom | Shot at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City[2] | |||
| Castle 1 | Malcolm Le Grice | United Kingdom | ||||
| Cerro Pelado | Santiago Álvarez | Cuba | Documentary about the Cuban Olympic team trying to enter Puerto Rico | |||
| The Cut-Ups | Antony Balch | William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin | United Kingdom | Black and white, written by Burroughs[3] | ||
| Daisies | Vera Chytilová | Jitka Cerhová, Ivana Karbanová | Czechoslovakia | |||
| Do Not Ask Where We Are Going | Tomislav Gotovac | Yugoslavia | ||||
| Faire un effort | Ben (Ben Vautier) | France | ||||
| The Flicker | Tony Conrad | United States | Black and white | |||
| Hold Me While I'm Naked | George Kuchar | George Kuchar, Donna Kerness | United States | [4] | ||
| Outer and Inner Space | Andy Warhol | Edie Sedgwick | United States | |||
| Persona | Ingmar Bergman | Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook | Sweden | Black and white[5] | ||
| Relativity | Ed Emshwiller | |||||
| Sound? | John Cage, Roland Kirk | United States | ||||
| Turn, Turn, Turn | Jud Yalkut | United States | Color. Award of Merit, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1966[6][7] | |||
| Unsere Afrikareise (Our Trip to Africa) | Peter Kubelka | Austria | Documentary about a hunting trip in Africa | |||
| Wintercourse | Paul Sharits | United States | ||||
| Word Movie | Paul Sharits | United States | ||||
| Yesterday Girl | Alexander Kluge | Alexandra Kluge | West Germany | Black and white | ||
| 1967 | ||||||
| 7362 | Pat O'Neill | United States | ||||
| Beginning | Artavazd Peleshian | Soviet Union | ||||
| David Holzman's Diary | Jim McBride | L.M. Kit Carson, Eileen Dietz, Louise Levine, Lorenzo Mans | United States | |||
| Eclipse of the Sun Virgin | George Kuchar | Frances Leibowitz, Debby Roman, Joe Zinzi | United States | |||
| La Femme 100 têtes | Éric Duvivier | France | Surrealist short film | |||
| Hasta la victoria siempre | Santiago Álvarez | Cuba | Government-commissioned documentary about Che Guevara, made within 48 hours of his death | |||
| I Am Curious (Yellow) | Vilgot Sjöman | Vilgot Sjöman, Lena Nyman, Börje Ahlstedt | Sweden | Black and white[8] | ||
| The Illiac Passion | Gregory Markopoulos | Richard Beauvais, David Beauvais | United States | [9] | ||
| The Image | Michael Armstrong (cinematographer) | Michael Byrne (actor), David Bowie | United Kingdom | Black and white, completed in 1967 but not released until 1969, David Bowie's first screen appearance[10][11] | ||
| Jeanetta Cochrane | Peter Whitehead | United Kingdom | ||||
| Kusama's Self-Obliteration | Yayoi Kusama, Jud Yalkut | Yayoi Kusama | United States | |||
| Little Dog for Roger | Malcolm Le Grice | United Kingdom | ||||
| Love Affair, or: The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator | Dušan Makavejev | Slobodan Aligrudić, Eva Ras | Yugoslavia | |||
| Marvo Movie | Jeff Keen | United Kingdom | ||||
| Samadhi | Jordan Belson | United States | Abstract, color[12] | |||
| Ulysses | Joseph Strick | Barbara Jefford, T. P. McKenna, Milo O'Shea, Maurice Roëves | United Kingdom United States |
Adaptation of the James Joyce novel | ||
| Wavelength | Michael Snow | Hollis Frampton, Roswell Rudd, Amy Taubin, Joyce Wieland | Canada | Structural film | ||
| Weekend | Jean-Luc Godard | Mireille Darc, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean Yanne | France | |||
| You're Human Like the Rest of Them | B. S. Johnson | William Hoyland | United Kingdom | |||
| 1968 | ||||||
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick | Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood | United Kingdom United States |
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| Alaska | Dore O. | United States | ||||
| The Bed | James Broughton | United Kingdom | ||||
| Cinétracts | Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais | France | Unsigned mini-films, made in the wake of the May 1968 uprisings, usually shot on 8mm | |||
| Contras'city | Djibril Diop Mambéty | Senegal | City film, made in Dakar | |||
| Faces | John Cassavetes | Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassell, Fred Draper, John Marley, Gena Rowlands | United States | |||
| Fando y Lis | Alejandro Jodorowsky | Sergio Kleiner, Diana Mariscal | Mexico | Written by Fernando Arrabal | ||
| Flesh | Paul Morrissey | Jackie Curtis, Joe Dallesandro, Candy Darling, Geraldine Smith | United States | Produced by Andy Warhol | ||
| Hall | Peter Gidal | United Kingdom | ||||
| Hanoi, martes 13 | Santiago Álvarez | Cuba | Anti-Vietnam War documentary | |||
| La hora de los hornos (Hour of the Furnaces) | Octavio Getino, Fernando Solanas | Argentina | Agitprop documentary, made of segments that could be stopped for audiences to discuss them | |||
| I Am Curious (Blue) | Vilgot Sjöman | Vilgot Sjöman, Peter Lindgren, Lena Nyman | Sweden | Black and white[13] | ||
| Innocence Unprotected | Dušan Makavejev | Dragoljub Aleksić | Yugoslavia | Reworking of an unreleased film made in 1941 | ||
| LBJ | Santiago Álvarez | Cuba | Anti-Vietnam War documentary | |||
| Memorias del Subdesarrollo (Memories of Underdevelopment) | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados | Cuba | |||
| Metamorfosis | António Palolo | Portugal | ||||
| The Movie Orgy | Joe Dante, Jon Davison | United States | Massive collage film, running 7.5 hours, cut in 2010 to 4.5 hours[14] | |||
| N:O:T:H:I:N:G | Paul Sharits | United States | Silent[15] | |||
| Pas de deux (Duo) | Norman McLaren | Margaret Mercier, Vincent Warren | Canada | Dance film, uses optical printing. Black and white. | ||
| Rat Life and Diet in North America | Joyce Wieland | Canada | ||||
| The Sixth Side of the Pentagon | Chris Marker | France | ||||
| Sorbet III | Frans Zwartjes | Netherlands | ||||
| Teorema | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Laura Betti, Massimo Girotti, Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp | Italy | |||
| 1969 | ||||||
| Cain's Film | Jamie Wadhawan | Alexander Trocchi | United Kingdom | |||
| The Color of Pomegranates | Sergei Parajanov | Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Aleksanyan, Vilen Galstyan | Soviet Union | Color[16] | ||
| Easy Rider | Dennis Hopper | Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson | United States | Hollywood "road movie;" partly experimental[17] | ||
| Erwin, Toni, Ilse | Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller | Austria | ||||
| Invocation of My Demon Brother | Kenneth Anger | Kenneth Anger, Mick Jagger | United States | Music composed by Mick Jagger | ||
| Katzelmacher | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Hanna Schygulla, Lilith Ungerer, Rudolf Waldemar Brem | West Germany | Black and white[18] | ||
| Love Is Colder Than Death | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hanna Schygulla, Ulli Lommel | West Germany | Black and white[18] | ||
| Note to Pati | Saul Levine | United States | ||||
| Paradigm | B. S. Johnson | William Hoyland | United Kingdom | |||
| Precautions Against Fanatics | Werner Herzog | West Germany | Spoof documentary | |||
| Room | Peter Gidal | United Kingdom | Structural film | |||
| Up Yours Too, Guillaume Apollinaire! | B. S. Johnson | United Kingdom | Short animation | |||
| Tales | Cassandra Gerstein, Andrea Loomis, Gail Porter | United States | Made by an all-female crew[19] | |||
| Walden | Jonas Mekas | United States | ||||
References
- Mary Scanlon -- Beyond the Absurd: Roland Tavel and Andy Warhol
- "Andy Warhol's Silver Flotations" on Experimental Cinema
- 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
- Dangerous Minds entry
- Elsaesser, Thomas (27 March 2014). "The Persistence of Persona". Criterion Collection.
- Dangerous Minds entry
- Film Maker's Cooperative Online Catalog
- Ankeny, Jason. "I Am Curious (Yellow)". Allmovie. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
- BAM/PFA program Archived 2014-05-09 at the Wayback Machine
- Cinebeats, "David Bowie is The Image"
- Michael Armstrong, "The Image -- History"
- CVM Belson Filmography
- Lahr, John (10 March 2013). "Sex and Politics: An Interview with Vilgot Sjöman". The Criterion Collection.
- St. Louis Mag "Jutaxposition as Art"
- LUX catalog entry
- Fountain, Clarke. "The Color of Pomegranates". Allmovie. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
- Criterion Collection DVD entry
- Koresky, Michael (26 August 2013). "Eclipse Series 39: Early Fassbinder". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
- "Tales". www3.nd.edu. Retrieved 2017-08-21.
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