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
15 Song Traits	Stan Brakhage	Stan Brakhage, Jane Brakhage	United States	[1]
The Art of Vision	Stan Brakhage	Stan Brakhage, Jane Brakhage	United States	[1]
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol	Jonas Mekas	Andy Warhol, Jane Holzer, Gerard Malanga, Jonas Mekas, Ivy Nicholson, Gregory J. Markopoulos	United States
Black Vision	Stan Brakhage		United States	[1]
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
Film Magazine of the Arts	Jonas Mekas		United States
Fire of Waters	Stan Brakhage		United States	[1]
Fuses	Carolee Schneemann		United States
Kustom Kar Kommandos	Kenneth Anger		United States
Now!	Santiago Álvarez		Cuba
Pasht	Stan Brakhage		United States	[1]
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
Song 9	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [1]
Song 10	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [1]
Song 11	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [1]
Song 12	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [1]
Song 13	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [1]
Song 14	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [1]
Song 16	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [1]
Song 17	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [1]
Song 18	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [1]
Song 19	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [1]
Song 20	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [1]
Song 21	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [1]
Song 22	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [1]
Two: Creeley/McClure	Stan Brakhage	Robert Creeley, Michael McClure	United States	[1]
Vinyl	Andy Warhol	Gerard Malanga, Edie Sedgwick	United States	Black and white; written by Ronald Tavel, based on Anthony Burgess' novel A Clockwork Orange [2]
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 [3]
Cassis	Jonas Mekas		United States
Castle 1	Malcolm Le Grice		United Kingdom
Castro Street	Bruce Baillie		United States
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 [4]
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	[5]
Outer and Inner Space	Andy Warhol	Edie Sedgwick	United States
Persona	Ingmar Bergman	Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook	Sweden	Black and white [6]
Relativity	Ed Emshwiller
Report from Millbrook	Jonas Mekas		United States
Sound?	John Cage, Roland Kirk		United States
Turn, Turn, Turn	Jud Yalkut		United States	Color. Award of Merit, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1966 [7] [8]
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
23rd Psalm Branch	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [1]
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
The Great Blondino	Robert Nelson and William T. Wiley	Chuck Wiley	United States
Hare Krishna	Jonas Mekas	Srila Prabhupada, Barbara Rubin, Philip Corner, Allen Ginsberg	United States
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 [9]
The Illiac Passion	Gregory Markopoulos	Richard Beauvais, David Beauvais	United States	[10]
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 [11] [12]
The Italian Notebook	Jonas Mekas		United States
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
Notes on the Circus	Jonas Mekas		United States
Samadhi	Jordan Belson		United States	Abstract, color [13]
Song 24	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [1]
Song 25	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [1]
The Song of Assisi	Jonas Mekas	Pier Paolo Pasolini	United States	Travel Songs series
The Song of Avila	Jonas Mekas	Jonas Mekas	United States	Travel Songs series
The Song of Italy	Jonas Mekas		United States	Travel Songs series
Spiracle	Robert Beavers		United States
Ulysses	Joseph Strick	Barbara Jefford, T. P. McKenna, Milo O'Shea, Maurice Roëves	United Kingdom United States	Adaptation of the James Joyce novel
Viet Flakes	Carolee Schneemann		United States
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
Winged Dialogue	Robert Beavers		United States
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
Alaska	Dore O.		United States
Around Perception (Autour de la perception)	Pierre Hébert		Canada	Computer animation with hand-drawn soundtrack. [14]
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
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches	Jonas Mekas	Timothy Leary, Ed Emshwiller, Jack Smith, Mario Montez, Nico, Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol, Judith Malina, Storm De Hirsch, Norman Mailer, John Lennon, Yoko Ono	United States	Involves a wide swath of the 1960s NYC avant-garde scene.
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
The Horseman, the Woman, and the Moth	Stan Brakhage		United States	[1]
I Am Curious (Blue)	Vilgot Sjöman	Vilgot Sjöman, Peter Lindgren, Lena Nyman	Sweden	Black and white [15]
Innocence Unprotected	Dušan Makavejev	Dragoljub Aleksić	Yugoslavia	Reworking of an unreleased film made in 1941
LBJ	Santiago Álvarez		Cuba	Anti-Vietnam War documentary
Lovemaking	Stan Brakhage		United States	[1]
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 [16]
My Mountain Song 27	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [1]
N:O:T:H:I:N:G	Paul Sharits		United States	Silent [17]
Pas de deux (Duo)	Norman McLaren	Margaret Mercier, Vincent Warren	Canada	Dance film, uses optical printing. Black and white.
Plan of Brussels	Robert Beavers		United States	18 mins
Rat Life and Diet in North America	Joyce Wieland		Canada
The Sixth Side of the Pentagon	Chris Marker		France
Song 26	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [1]
Sorbet III	Frans Zwartjes		Netherlands
Teorema	Pier Paolo Pasolini	Laura Betti, Massimo Girotti, Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp	Italy
1969
American 30'sSong	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [1]
Cain's Film	Jamie Wadhawan	Alexander Trocchi	United Kingdom
The Color of Pomegranates	Sergei Parajanov	Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Aleksanyan, Vilen Galstyan	Soviet Union	Color [18]
The Count of Days	Robert Beavers		United States	21 mins
Easy Rider	Dennis Hopper	Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson	United States	Hollywood "road movie;" partly experimental [19]
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 [20]
Lemon	Hollis Frampton		United States
Love Is Colder Than Death	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hanna Schygulla, Ulli Lommel	West Germany	Black and white [20]
My Name Is Oona	Gunvor Nelson		United States
Note to Pati	Saul Levine		United States
Paradigm	B. S. Johnson	William Hoyland	United Kingdom
Our Lady of the Sphere	Larry Jordan		United States
Precautions Against Fanatics	Werner Herzog		West Germany	Spoof documentary
Room	Peter Gidal		United Kingdom	Structural film
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section One	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Scenes from Under Childhood cycle [1]
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Three	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Scenes from Under Childhood cycle [1]
Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Two	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Scenes from Under Childhood cycle [1]
Song 27 (Part II) Rivers	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [1]
Song 28	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [1]
Song 29	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [1]
Time & Fortune Vietnam Newsreel	Jonas Mekas	Adolfas Mekas	United States
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 [21]
Window Suite of Children's Songs	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of Songs cycle [1]

References

1. Fred Camper Stan Brakhage filmography
2. Mary Scanlon -- Beyond the Absurd: Roland Tavel and Andy Warhol
3. "Andy Warhol's Silver Flotations" on Experimental Cinema
4. 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
5. Dangerous Minds entry
6. Elsaesser, Thomas (27 March 2014). "The Persistence of Persona". Criterion Collection.
7. Dangerous Minds entry
8. Film Maker's Cooperative Online Catalog
9. Ankeny, Jason. "I Am Curious (Yellow)". Allmovie. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
10. BAM/PFA program Archived 2014-05-09 at the Wayback Machine
11. Cinebeats, "David Bowie is The Image"
12. Michael Armstrong, "The Image -- History"
13. CVM Belson Filmography
14. NFB Canada entry
15. Lahr, John (10 March 2013). "Sex and Politics: An Interview with Vilgot Sjöman". The Criterion Collection .
16. St. Louis Mag "Jutaxposition as Art"
17. LUX catalog entry
18. Fountain, Clarke. "The Color of Pomegranates". Allmovie. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
19. Criterion Collection DVD entry
20. Koresky, Michael (26 August 2013). "Eclipse Series 39: Early Fassbinder". The Criterion Collection . Retrieved 30 July 2014.
21. "Tales". www3.nd.edu. Retrieved 2017-08-21.