List of avant-garde films of the 1960s: 1965–1969
Appearance
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 | ||
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1965 | ||||||
Brus.Wuenscht. Euch.Seine. Weinachten. | Kurt Kren | Günter Brus | Documentation of a Vienna Actionist piece | |||
Derby | Jože Pogačnik | Short documentary of a football match between Olimpija Ljubljana and NK Maribor | ||||
Dirty | Stephen Dwoskin | |||||
Les Escargots | René Laloux, Roland Topor | Surreal animation | ||||
Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc. | Owen Land | |||||
Fuses | Carolee Schneemann | |||||
Kustom Kar Kommandos | Kenneth Anger | |||||
Now! | Santiago Álvarez | |||||
Peyote Queen | Storm de Hirsch | |||||
Ruka (The Hand) | Jiří Trnka | Satirical animation | ||||
The Saragossa Manuscript | Wojciech Has | Iga Cembrzyńska, Zbigniew Cybulski Joanna Jędryka | ||||
Silber - Aktion Brus | Kurt Kren | Günter Brus | Documentation of a Vienna Actionist piece | |||
Vinyl | Andy Warhol | Gerard Malanga, Edie Sedgwick | 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 | Made for BBC TV, but not broadcast until 1985[2] | |||
Wholly Communion | Peter Whitehead | Allen Ginsberg, Michael Horovitz, Ernst Jandl, Adrian Mitchell | Documents a poetry event held on 11 June 1965 called the International Poetry Incarnation | |||
1966 | ||||||
All My Life | Bruce Baillie | |||||
Andy Warhol's Silver Flotations | Willard Maas | Shot at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City[3] | ||||
Castle 1 | Malcolm Le Grice | |||||
Cerro Pelado | Santiago Álvarez | Documentary about the Cuban Olympic team trying to enter Puerto Rico | ||||
The Cut-Ups | Antony Balch | William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin | Black and white, written by Burroughs[4] | |||
Daisies | Vera Chytilová | Jitka Cerhová, Ivana Karbanová | ||||
Do Not Ask Where We Are Going | Tomislav Gotovac | |||||
Faire un effort | Ben (Ben Vautier) | |||||
The Flicker | Tony Conrad | Black and white | ||||
Hold Me While I'm Naked | George Kuchar | George Kuchar, Donna Kerness | [5] | |||
Outer and Inner Space | Andy Warhol | Edie Sedgwick | ||||
Persona | Ingmar Bergman | Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook | Black and white[6] | |||
Relativity | Ed Emshwiller | |||||
Sound? | John Cage, Roland Kirk | |||||
Turn, Turn, Turn | Jud Yalkut | Award of Merit, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1966[7][8] | ||||
Unsere Afrikareise (Our Trip to Africa) | Peter Kubelka | Documentary about a hunting trip in Africa | ||||
Wintercourse | Paul Sharits | |||||
Word Movie | Paul Sharits | |||||
Yesterday Girl | Alexander Kluge | Alexandra Kluge | Black and white | |||
1967 | ||||||
7362 | Pat O'Neill | |||||
Beginning | Artavazd Peleshian | |||||
David Holzman's Diary | Jim McBride | L.M. Kit Carson, Eileen Dietz, Louise Levine, Lorenzo Mans | ||||
Eclipse of the Sun Virgin | George Kuchar | Frances Leibowitz, Debby Roman, Joe Zinzi | ||||
La Femme 100 têtes | Éric Duvivier | Surrealist short film | ||||
Hasta la victoria siempre | Santiago Álvarez | 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 | Black and white[9] | |||
The Illiac Passion | Gregory Markopoulos | Richard Beauvais, David Beauvais | [10] | |||
The Image | Michael Armstrong (cinematographer) | Michael Byrne (actor), David Bowie | Black and white, completed in 1967 but not released until 1969, David Bowie's first screen appearance[11][12] | |||
Jeanetta Cochrane | Peter Whitehead | |||||
Kusama's Self-Obliteration | Yayoi Kusama, Jud Yalkut | Yayoi Kusama | ||||
Little Dog for Roger | Malcolm Le Grice | |||||
Love Affair, or: The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator | Dušan Makavejev | Slobodan Aligrudić, Eva Ras | ||||
Marvo Movie | Jeff Keen | |||||
Ulysses | Joseph Strick | Barbara Jefford, T. P. McKenna, Milo O'Shea, Maurice Roëves | Adaptation of the James Joyce novel | |||
Wavelength | Michael Snow | Hollis Frampton, Roswell Rudd, Amy Taubin, Joyce Wieland | Structural film | |||
Weekend | Jean-Luc Godard | Mireille Darc, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean Yanne | ||||
You're Human Like the Rest of Them | B. S. Johnson | William Hoyland | ||||
1968 | ||||||
2001: A Space Odyssey | Stanley Kubrick | Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood | ||||
Alaska | Dore O. | |||||
The Bed | James Broughton | |||||
Cinétracts | Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais | Unsigned mini-films, made in the wake of the May 1968 uprisings, usually shot on 8mm[13] | ||||
Contras'city | Djibril Diop Mambéty | City film, made in Dakar | ||||
Faces | John Cassavetes | Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassell, Fred Draper, John Marley, Gena Rowlands | ||||
Fando y Lis | Alejandro Jodorowsky | Sergio Kleiner, Diana Mariscal | Written by Fernando Arrabal | |||
Flesh | Paul Morrissey | Jackie Curtis, Joe Dallesandro, Candy Darling, Geraldine Smith | Produced by Andy Warhol | |||
Hall | Peter Gidal | |||||
Hanoi, martes 13 | Santiago Álvarez | Anti-Vietnam War documentary | ||||
La hora de los hornos (Hour of the Furnaces) | Octavio Getino, Fernando Solanas | 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 | Black and white[14] | |||
Innocence Unprotected | Dušan Makavejev | Dragoljub Aleksić | Reworking of an unreleased film made in 1941 | |||
LBJ | Santiago Álvarez | Anti-Vietnam War documentary | ||||
Memorias del Subdesarrollo (Memories of Underdevelopment) | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados | ||||
Metamorfosis | António Palolo | |||||
The Movie Orgy | Joe Dante, Jon Davison | Massive collage film, running 7.5 hours, cut in 2010 to 4.5 hours[15] | ||||
N:O:T:H:I:N:G | Paul Sharits | Silent[16] | ||||
Pas de deux (Duo) | Norman McLaren | Margaret Mercier, Vincent Warren | Dance film, uses optical printing | |||
Rat Life and Diet in North America | Joyce Wieland | |||||
The Sixth Side of the Pentagon | Chris Marker | |||||
Sorbet III | Frans Zwartjes | |||||
Teorema | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Laura Betti, Massimo Girotti, Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp | ||||
1969 | ||||||
Cain's Film | Jamie Wadhawan | Alexander Trocchi | ||||
The Color of Pomegranates | Sergei Parajanov | Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Aleksanyan, Vilen Galstyan | Color[17] | |||
Easy Rider | Dennis Hopper | Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson | Hollywood "road movie;" partly experimental[18] | |||
Erwin, Toni, Ilse | Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller | |||||
Invocation of My Demon Brother | Kenneth Anger | Kenneth Anger, Mick Jagger | Music composed by Mick Jagger[19] | |||
Katzelmacher | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Hanna Schygulla, Lilith Ungerer, Rudolf Waldemar Brem | Black and white[20] | |||
Love Is Colder Than Death | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hanna Schygulla, Ulli Lommel | Black and white[21] | |||
Note to Pati | Saul Levine | |||||
Paradigm | B. S. Johnson | William Hoyland | ||||
Precautions Against Fanatics | Werner Herzog | Spoof documentary | ||||
Room | Peter Gidal | Structural film | ||||
Up Yours Too, Guillaume Apollinaire! | B. S. Johnson | Short animation | ||||
Tales | Cassandra Gerstein, Andrea Loomis, Gail Porter | Made by an all-female crew[22] | ||||
Walden (DIaries: Notes and Sketches) | Jonas Mekas |
References
- ^ Mary Scanlon -- Beyond the Absurd: Roland Tavel and Andy Warhol
- ^ "The War Game". Wikipedia. 2017-08-12.
- ^ "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 [1]
- ^ Dangerous Minds entry
- ^ Elsaesser, Thomas (27 March 2014). "The Persistence of Persona'". Criterion Collection. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
- ^ 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" [2]
- ^ Michael Armstrong, "The Image -- History" [3]
- ^ "Cinétract". Wikipédia (in French). 2016-11-20.
- ^ Lahr, John (10 March 2013). "Sex and Politics: An Interview with Vilgot Sjöman". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
- ^ St. Louis Mag "Jutaxposition as Art"
- ^ LUX catalog entry
- ^ Fountain, Clarke. "The Color of Pomegranates". Allmovie. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
- ^ Criterion Collection DVD entry
- ^ "Invocation of My Demon Brother". Wikipedia. 2016-11-09.
- ^ Koresky, Michael (26 August 2013). "Eclipse Series 39: Early Fassbinder". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
- ^ 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.