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 | |
| Black Vision | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | ||
| Fire of Waters | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||
| Fuses | Carolee Schneemann | United States | ||
| Kustom Kar Kommandos | Kenneth Anger | United States | ||
| Now! | Santiago Álvarez | Cuba | ||
| Pasht | Stan Brakhage | United States | ||
| Peyote Queen | Storm de Hirsch | United States | Color. | |
| Ruka (The Hand) | 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 | |
| Song 10 | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Songs cycle | |
| Song 11 | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Songs cycle | |
| Song 12 | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Songs cycle | |
| Song 13 | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Songs cycle | |
| Song 14 | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Songs cycle | |
| Song 16 | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Songs cycle | |
| Song 17 | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Songs cycle | |
| Song 18 | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Songs cycle | |
| Song 19 | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Songs cycle | |
| Song 20 | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Songs cycle | |
| Song 21 | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Songs cycle | |
| Song 22 | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Songs cycle | |
| Two: Creeley/McClure | Stan Brakhage | Robert Creeley, Michael McClure | United States | |
| Vinyl | Andy Warhol | 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 | 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] | |
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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] |
| 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[13] | |
| Song 24 | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Songs cycle | |
| Song 25 | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Songs cycle | |
| Ulysses | Joseph Strick | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | |
| 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. |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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] |
| Easy Rider | Dennis Hopper | 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 |
| 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 | |
| Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Three | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Scenes from Under Childhood cycle | |
| Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Two | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Scenes from Under Childhood cycle | |
| Song 27 (Part II) Rivers | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Songs cycle | |
| Song 28 | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Songs cycle | |
| Song 29 | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Songs cycle | |
| 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] | |
| Walden | Jonas Mekas | United States | ||
| Window Suite of Children's Songs | Stan Brakhage | United States | Part of Songs cycle | |