List of avant-garde films of the 1950s
This is a list of avant-garde and experimental films released in the 1950s. Unless noted, all films had sound and were in black and white.
Title | Director | Cast | Nation | Notes | ||
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1950 | ||||||
The Adventures of Jimmy | James Broughton | James Broughton | Music by Weldon Kees.[1] | |||
Un chant d'amour | Jean Genet | Java, André Reybaz | Genet's only film[2] | |||
Eaten Horizons | Wilhelm Freddie, Jørgen Roos | Surrealist film | ||||
Orphée | Jean Cocteau | Jean Marais | ||||
Rabbit's Moon | Kenneth Anger | André Soubeyron, Claude Revenant | Color[3] | |||
Swain | Gregory Markopoulos, Robert C. Freeman, Jr. | Gregory Markopoulos, Mary Zelles | Based on Hawthorne, only a drastically shortened version exists; 24 minutes of 50[4][failed verification] | |||
Tłum (The Crowd) | Walerian Borowczyk | [5][failed verification] | ||||
1951 | ||||||
Divertissement Rococo | Hy Hirsh | Abstract animation[6] | ||||
Ensemble for Somnambulists | Maya Deren | [7] | ||||
Le film est déja commence? | Maurice Lemaître | Lettrist film[8] | ||||
Le mort du cerf | Dimitri Kirsanoff | |||||
A Treatise on Venom and Eternity | Isidore Isou | Isidore Isou | Lettrist film[8] | |||
1952 | ||||||
L'anti-concept | Gil J. Wolman | Lettrist film[8] | ||||
Approaches and Leavetakings | Weldon Kees, Jurgen Ruesch | [9] | ||||
Bells of Atlantis | Ian Hugo | |||||
Come Closer | Hy Hirsh | Color, abstract animation in 3-D[10] | ||||
Form Phases I | Robert Breer | Color, silent abstract animation.[11] | ||||
Hand-Mouth Coordination | Weldon Kees, Gregory Bateson | [12] | ||||
Hotel Apex | Weldon Kees | Study of the demolition of an old hotel[13] | ||||
Hurlements en faveur de Sade | Guy Debord | Lettrist film | ||||
Interim | Stan Brakhage | Brakhage's first film, scored by James Tenney[14] | ||||
1953 | ||||||
The Boy and the Sea | Stan Brakhage | Silent, listed by Camper as "not available"[15] | ||||
Eaux d'Artifice | Kenneth Anger | Carmilla Salvatorelli | Color, added to the National Film Registry in 1993[16] | |||
The End | Christopher Maclaine | Early Beat generation film[17] | ||||
Eneri | Hy Hirsh | Abstract animation[18] | ||||
Form Phases II | Robert Breer | Color, silent abstract animation.[19] | ||||
Form Phases III | Robert Breer | Color, silent abstract animation.[20] | ||||
The Pleasure Garden | James Broughton | Lindsay Anderson, Hattie Jacques, John Le Mesurier | ||||
Statues Also Die | Chris Marker, Alain Resnais | |||||
Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection | Stan Brakhage | Silent, listed by Camper as "not available"[21] | ||||
1954 | ||||||
Desistfilm | Stan Brakhage | [22] | ||||
The Extraordinary Child | Stan Brakhage | Listed by Camper as "not available"[23] | ||||
Form Phases IV | Robert Breer | Color, silent abstract animation.[24] | ||||
In Between | Stan Brakhage | Color, music by John Cage[25] | ||||
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome | Kenneth Anger | Samson de Brier, Anaïs Nin | Color, edited into at least three distinct versions[26] | |||
Un Miracle | Robert Breer, Pontus Hultén | Color, collage animation.[27] | ||||
The Way to Shadow Garden | Stan Brakhage | [28] | ||||
1955 | ||||||
Atelier de Fernand Léger | Walerian Borowczyk | Filmed at Fernand Léger's studio in Paris[29] | ||||
Aviary | Joseph Cornell | Silent[30] | ||||
The Bridge | William Heick | Weldon Kees | Poetic study, based on Hart Crane[31] | |||
Closed Vision | Marc'O. | Lettrist film[8] | ||||
Dementia, aka Daughter of Horror | John Parker | Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota | Essentially silent psychological horror film, music by George Antheil[32] | |||
Une femme coquette | Jean-Luc Godard | Maria Lysandre, Roland Tolma | ||||
Haitian Film Footage | Maya Deren | Begun in 1947; later posthumously edited into The Divine Horsemen[33] | ||||
Jesień (Autumn) | Walerian Borowczyk | Animation[34] | ||||
Joanne, Union Square | Joseph Cornell | Silent[35] | ||||
Joanne, Xmas | Joseph Cornell | Silent[36] | ||||
Mosaik im Vertrauen (Mosaic in Confidence) | Peter Kubelka | Written by Ferry Radax[37] | ||||
A Portrait of Ga | Margaret Tait | |||||
Reflections | Madeline Tourtelot | Color, two distinct versions[38] | ||||
Reflections on Black | Stan Brakhage | [39] | ||||
Sunday in Peking | Chris Marker | |||||
The Very Eye of Night | Maya Deren | Dance film, choreographed by Antony Tudor[40] | ||||
The Wonder Ring | Stan Brakhage | Color, silent[41] | ||||
Żywe fotografie (Photographies Vivantes) | Walerian Borowczyk | Animation[42] | ||||
1956 | ||||||
Centuries of June | Stan Brakhage, Joseph Cornell | Color, silent[43] | ||||
Flesh of Morning | Stan Brakhage | Revised in 1986[44] | ||||
Nightcats | Stan Brakhage | Color, silent[45] | ||||
Recreation | Robert Breer | Noël Burch | Color, semi-abstract animation with narration.[46] | |||
Together | Lorenza Mazzetti, Denis Horne | Eduardo Paolozzi, Michael Andrews | Experimental semi-documentary[47] | |||
Zone Moment | Stan Brakhage | Color, silent[48] | ||||
1957 | ||||||
8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements | Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, Hans Richter | |||||
A to Z | Michael Snow | "Blue and white" color, silent[49][50][51] | ||||
Adebar | Peter Kubelka | Early structural — or in Kubelka's terms, "metric" — film[52] | ||||
Angel | Joseph Cornell | Color[53] | ||||
Był sobie raz (Once Upon a Time) | Jan Lenica, Walerian Borowczyk | Cut-out animation[54] | ||||
Boy's Games | Joseph Cornell | Silent[55] | ||||
Cappuccino | Joseph Cornell | [56] | ||||
Children | Joseph Cornell | Silent[57] | ||||
Cloche a Travers les Feuilles/Claude Debussy | Joseph Cornell | Revised version of Nymphlight[58] | ||||
Daybreak and Whiteye | Stan Brakhage | [59] | ||||
Dni Oświaty (Education Days) | Jan Lenica, Walerian Borowczyk | Animation[60] | ||||
A Fable for Fountains | Joseph Cornell, Rudolph Buckhardt | Begun in 1955; revised as "A Legend for Fountains" in 1965[61] | ||||
Glimpse of the Garden | Marie Menken | Selected for addition to the National Film Registry in 2007[62] | ||||
Gyromorphosis | Hy Hirsh | Abstract animation[63] | ||||
Nagrodzone uczucia (Requited Sentiments) | Jan Lenica, Walerian Borowczyk | Animation[64] | ||||
Jamestown Baloos | Robert Breer | Color, semi-abstract combination of animation and live action.[65] | ||||
Loving | Stan Brakhage | Carolee Schneemann, James Tenney | Color, silent[66] | |||
Strep-tease (Striptease) | Jan Lenica, Walerian Borowczyk | Animation[67] | ||||
A Man and His Dog Out for Air | Robert Breer | Abstract animation, shown with Last Year at Marienbad in its first New York run.[68] | ||||
The Man Who Invented Gold | Christopher Maclaine | Partly filmed by Jordan Belson[69] | ||||
Nymphlight | Joseph Cornell | Color[70] | ||||
1958 | ||||||
Anticipation of the Night | Stan Brakhage | [71] | ||||
Beat | Christopher Maclaine | [72] | ||||
Défense d'afficher | Hy Hirsh | Abstract animation[73] | ||||
Dom (House) | Jan Lenica, Walerian Borowczyk | Animation; Winner of 1958 Belgium International Experimental Film Competition[74] | ||||
Double Jam | Hy Hirsh | Abstract animation[75] | ||||
Free Radicals | Len Lye | |||||
Une histoire d'eau | Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut | Caroline Dim, Jean-Claude Brialy | Semi-improvised, proto-Nouvelle vague short[76] | |||
A Movie | Bruce Conner | Iconic collage film.[77] | ||||
Schwechater | Peter Kubelka | "Metric" beer commercial[78] | ||||
Szkoła (School) | Jan Lenica, Walerian Borowczyk | Animated photographs[79] | ||||
Spatiodynamisme | Tinto Brass, Nicolas Schöffer | Color, silent. A visual document of Schöffer's CYSP-1, the first cybernetic sculpture.[80] | ||||
Sztandar młodych (Banner of Youth) | Jan Lenica, Walerian Borowczyk | Animation[81] | ||||
1959 | ||||||
Les astronautes | Walerian Borowczyk, Chris Marker | Animated[82] | ||||
Chasse des Touches | Hy Hirsh | Abstract animation[83] | ||||
Cat's Cradle | Stan Brakhage | Color, silent[84] | ||||
Diary of an Unknown Soldier | Peter Watkins | |||||
Eyewash | Robert Breer | Color, silent mixture of abstract animation and live action; exists in two versions.[85] | ||||
Hiroshima mon amour | Alain Resnais | Eiji Okada, Emmanuelle Riva | Written by Marguerite Duras[86] | |||
Monsieur Tête | Jan Lenica | Animation[87] | ||||
Odds and Ends | Jane Belson | |||||
Pull My Daisy | Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie | Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso | Beat Generation film, written by Jack Kerouac[88] | |||
The Running Jumping and Standing Still Film | Richard Lester | |||||
Scotch Hop | Christopher Maclaine | [89] | ||||
Season of Strangers | Maya Deren | Unfinished; made as part of Haiku Film Project at Woodstock[90] | ||||
Shadows | John Cassavetes | Ben Carruthers, Lelia Goldoni, Hugh Hurd | ||||
Sirius Remembered | Stan Brakhage | Color, silent[91] | ||||
Wedlock House: An Intercourse | Stan Brakhage | Silent[92] | ||||
Window Water Baby Moving | Stan Brakhage | Color, silent[93] |
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