List of avant-garde films of the 1960s: 1960–1964

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.

Title	Director	Cast	Nation	Notes
1960
Actua-Tilt	Jean Herman (Jean Vautrin)	Monique Le Porrier, Claude-Jean Phillipe	France	[1]
Arnulf Rainer	Peter Kubelka		Austria
Bäume in Herbst (Trees in Autumn)	Kurt Kren		Austria
The Dead	Stan Brakhage	Kenneth Anger	United States	[2]
The Flower Thief	Ron Rice	Taylor Mead	United 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 States	Abstract animation, color
The Autumn Feast	Piero Heliczer, Jeff Keen	Piero Heliczer, Kate Heliczer	United Kingdom	Black 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
Guns of the Trees	Jonas Mekas		United States
Mr Hayashi	Bruce Baillie		United States
Night Tide	Curtis Harrington	Dennis Hopper, Margaret Cameron	United 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 Jesus	Robert Frank	Roberts Blossom, Julie Bovasso	United States	Based on story by Isaac Babel, music by Morton Feldman. [9] [10]
Thigh Line Lyre Triangular	Stan Brakhage	Jane Brakhage	United States	[2]
1962
Baud'larian Capers	Ken Jacobs		United States
Blue Moses	Stan Brakhage	Robert Benson	United States	[2]
Dog Star Man: Prelude	Stan Brakhage	Stan Brakhage, Jane Brakhage	United States	[2]
Heaven and Earth Magic	Harry Smith		United States	[11]
The House is Black	Forugh Farrokhzad		Iran
La Jetée	Chris Marker	Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich	France	[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 Cobra	Ken Jacobs, Bob Fleischner	Jack Smith, Jerry Sims	United States	Filmed in 1959-60; completed by Jacobs in 1963 [13]
By the Sea	Pat O'Neill		United States
Christmas on Earth	Barbara Rubin	Gerard Malanga	United States	Black and white
Chumlum	Ron Rice		United States
The Death of P'town	Ken Jacobs		United States
Dog Star Man: Part I	Stan Brakhage	Stan Brakhage, Jane Brakhage	United States	[2]
The Existentialist	Leon Prochnik	Ruth Abramson, Gilbert Archer, Edward Blair	United States
Flaming Creatures	Jack Smith	Jack Smith, Mario Montez, Judith Malina	United States	Color [14]
Little Stabs at Happiness	Ken Jacobs	Jack Smith, Jerry Sims	United States	Color; 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 Man	Ron Rice	Winifred Bryan, Taylor Mead	United States
Scorpio Rising	Kenneth Anger	Bruce Byron	United States	Color
Sun in Your Head	Wolf Vostell		West Germany	Early video art, captured on film; converted back to video in 1967 [17]
Towers Open Fire	Antony Balch	William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin	United Kingdom	Black and white/color, first shown in 1966; written by Burroughs [18]
TV Plug	Ken Jacobs		United States
Twice a Man	Gregory Markopoulos		United States
William Buys a Parrot	Antony Balch	William S. Burroughs	United Kingdom	Color [19]
1964
Blue Rider (Godard-art)	Tomislav Gotovac		Yugoslavia
The Brig	Jonas Mekas	The Living Theatre, Warren Finnerty, Henry Howard, Tom Lilard, Steven Ben Israel, Rufus Collins, Michael Elias, George Bartenieff, Henry Proach, James Anderson	United States
The Cool World	Shirley Clarke	Hampton Clanton	United States	Black and white, music by Dizzy Gillespie
Dog Star Man	Stan Brakhage		United States	Begun in 1961, color, silent [20]
Help! My Snowman's Burning Down	Carson Davidson	Bob Larkin	United States	Independently 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]
Sleep	Andy Warhol	John Giorno	United States	Filmed in July 1963; first shown in January 1964. [24]
Song 1	Stan Brakhage	Stan Brakhage, Jane Brakhage	United States	Part of Songs cycle [2]
Song 2	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [2]
Song 3	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [2]
Song 4	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [2]
Song 5	Stan Brakhage	Jane Brakhage	United States	Part of Songs cycle [2]
Song 6	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [2]
Song 7	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [2]
Song 8	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [2]

References

1. Pratt Library 16mm Experimental Films Catalog entry
2. 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] ^{[ user-generated source ]}
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. 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"