List of avant-garde films of the 1990s explained

This is a list of avant-garde and experimental films released in the 1990s.

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Notes
1990
Absurd	John Maybury
Archangel	Guy Maddin	Kyle McCulloch, Kathy Marykuca, Sarah Neville	Canada	^[1]
Babylon Series #2	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of the Babylon Series
Babylon Series #3	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of the Babylon Series
Bilokacija	Marina Gržinić, Aina Šmid		Yugoslavia
City Streaming	Stan Brakhage		United States
Close-Up (1990 film)	Abbas Kiarostami		Iran
The Comb	Brothers Quay		United Kingdom
The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia	Jan Švankmajer		Czech Republic
The Garden	Derek Jarman	Mark Adley, Spencer Leigh, Tilda Swinton	United Kingdom
Geography	Breda Beban, Hrvoje Horvatić		Yugoslavia
Glaze of Cathexis	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of the Three Hand-Painted Films
How to Live in the German Federal Republic	Harun Farocki		West Germany
Moscow Portraits	Marina Gržinić, Aina Šmid		Yugoslavia
	Stan Brakhage		United States
Singapore Sling	Nikos Nikolaidis	Meredyth Herold, Panos Thanassoulis, Michele Valley	Greece
Tenamonya Connection	Masashi Yamamoto	Reiko Arai	Japan Hong Kong	^[2]
The Thatch of Night	Stan Brakhage		United States
Vision of the Fire Tree	Stan Brakhage		United States
Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of the Visions in Meditation Cycle
Visions in Meditation #4: D.H. Lawrence	Stan Brakhage		United States	Part of the Visions in Meditation Cycle
You Be Mother	Sarah Pucill		United Kingdom
1991
Agnus Dei Kinder Synapse	Stan Brakhage		United States
A Child's Garden and the Serious Sea	Stan Brakhage		United States
Christ Mass Sex Dance	Stan Brakhage		United States
Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse	Stan Brakhage		United States
Delicatessen	Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet		France	Surrealist film^[3]
Edward II	Derek Jarman	Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry, Andrew Tiernan, Steven Waddington	United Kingdom
Europa	Lars von Trier	Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Ernst-Hugo Järegård	Denmark
Flaming Ears	Ursula Pürrer, Hans A. Scheirl, Dietmar Schipek		Austria
Franz Kafka	Piotr Dumala		Poland
Naked Lunch	David Cronenberg	Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm	Canada UK	^[4]
Prospero's Books	Peter Greenaway		UK France	^[5]
Traveling at Night	Chris Kraus		United States
	Craig Baldwin		United States
1992
Acidfilmda	Metamkine		France
The Bride, The Bachelors – Even	Sanja Iveković, Dalibor Martinis		Yugoslavia
A Cage of Flame	Kayla Parker		United Kingdom
Crack Glass Eulogy	Stan Brakhage		United States
Falling Lessons	Amy Halpern		United States
Fatima's Letter	Alia Syed		United Kingdom
I am My Own Woman	Rosa von Praunheim	Charlotte von Mahlsdorf	Germany
Interpolations I-V	Stan Brakhage		United States
The Last Bolshevik	Chris Marker		France
	Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick	Noam Chomsky	United States
Jidlo	Jan Švankmajer		Czech Republic	^[6]
Side/Walk/Shuttle	Ernie Gehr		United States
Untitled (For Marilyn)	Stan Brakhage		United States
Videograms of a Revolution	Haron Farocki, Andrei Ujică		Romania Germany
Wittgenstein Tractatus	Péter Forgács		Hungary
Zefiro Torna	Jonas Mekas		United States
1993
Anamorphosis, or De Artificiali Perspectiva	Brothers Quay		United Kingdom
Artwar	Jeff Keen		United Kingdom
The Attendant	Isaac Julien		United Kingdom
Autumnal	Stan Brakhage		United States
Blossom-Gift/Favor	Stan Brakhage		United States
Blue	Derek Jarman	John Quentin, Nigel Terry, Derek Jarman	United Kingdom	^[7]
Boulder Blues and Pearls and...	Stan Brakhage		United States
Careful	Guy Maddin		Canada	^[8]
Ephemeral Solidity	Stan Brakhage		United States
Eyewitnesses in Foreign Countries	Gustav Deutsch, Mostafa Tabbou		Austria Morocco
Fast Trip, Long Drop	Gregg Bordowitz		United States
Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life	Peter Capaldi		United Kingdom	^[9]
Gender Troublemakers	Xantha Philippa Mackay, Mirha-Soleil Ross		Canada
The Harrowing	Stan Brakhage		United States
Passage à l'acte	Martin Arnold		Austria
Project Eleonara	Rühm T		Estonia
Smoking/No Smoking	Alain Resnais		France Italy	^[10]
Stellar	Stan Brakhage		United States
	Brothers Quay		United Kingdom
	Brothers Quay		United Kingdom
Study in Color and Black and White	Stan Brakhage		United States
Three Homerics	Stan Brakhage		United States
Tryst Haunt	Stan Brakhage		United States
Wittgenstein	Derek Jarman	Karl Johnson, Michael Gough, Tilda Swinton	United Kingdom	^[11]
1994
A.13 (short)	William Raban		United Kingdom
Black Ice	Stan Brakhage		United States	^[12]
Cannot Exist	Stan Brakhage		United States
Cannot Not Exist	Stan Brakhage		United States
Chartres Series	Stan Brakhage		United States
Elementary Phrases	Stan Brakhage		United States
Faust	Jan Švankmajer	Petr Čepek	Czech Republic France United Kingdom Germany	^[13]
	Stan Brakhage		United States
London	Patrick Keiller	Paul Scofield	United Kingdom
Luna 10	Marina Gržinić, Aina Šmid		Slovenia
The Mammals of Victoria	Stan Brakhage		United States
Naughts	Stan Brakhage		United States
Postcards from America	Elizabeth Gill, Chris Hoover, Steve McLean	James Lyons, Michael Tighe, Olmo Tighe	United States	^[14]
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith	Ron Vawter, Anita Thacher, Jill Godmilow		United States	^[15]
Sátántángo	Béla Tarr	Putyi Horváth, László Lugossy, Mihály Víg	Hungary
Seduction of a Cyborg	Lynn Hershman Leeson		United States
Vanya on 42nd Street	Louis Malle	Wallace Shawn, Larry Pine, Andre Gregory	United States	^[16]
What She Wants	Ruth Lingford		United Kingdom
Why I Never Became a Dancer	Tracey Emin		United Kingdom
1995
Above the Lake	Dmitrii Frolov	Peter Kremis, Romil Rachev, Natalya Surkova	Russia
A3 – Apatija, AIDS in Antarktika	Marina Gržinić, Aina Šmid		Slovenia
The 'b' Series	Stan Brakhage		United States
Cremaster 1	Matthew Barney		United States	^[17]
Earthen Aerie	Stan Brakhage		United States
I...	Stan Brakhage		United States
I Take These Truths	Stan Brakhage		United States
If 6 was 9	Eija-Liisa Ahtila		Finland
In Consideration of Pompeii	Stan Brakhage		United States
JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December	Jean-Luc Godard		France
The Lost Films	Stan Brakhage		United States
Lumière and Company	Various directors		France Spain Sweden	^[18]
	Rosa von Praunheim		Germany
Out of the Present	Andrei Ujică		Romania
Paranoia Corridor	Stan Brakhage		United States
Sonic Outlaws	Craig Baldwin		United States	^[19]
Spring Cycle	Stan Brakhage		United States
Tokyo Fist	Shinya Tsukamoto	Shinya Tsukamoto, Kaori Fujii, Kohji Tsukamoto	Japan	^[20]
We Hold These	Stan Brakhage		United States
1996
Beautiful Funerals	Stan Brakhage		United States
Blue Value	Stan Brakhage		United States
Breaking the Waves	Lars von Trier	Emily Watson	Denmark
Comingled Containers	Stan Brakhage		United States
Concrescence	Stan Brakhage		United States
Conspirators of Pleasure	Jan Švankmajer	Petr Meissel	Switzerland United Kingdom Czech Republic	^[21]
Crash	David Cronenberg	James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger, Elias Koteas, Holly Hunter, Rosanna Arquette	Canada United Kingdom
The Film of Her	Bill Morrison		United Kingdom
For Ever Mozart	Jean-Luc Godard		Switzerland France	^[22]
The Fur of Home	Stan Brakhage		United States
Gallivant	Andrew Kötting		United Kingdom
Georgetown Loop	Ken Jacobs		United States
Happy-End	Peter Tscherkassky		Austria
Hide and Seek	Su Friedrich		United States	^[23]
Irma Vep	Olivier Assayas	Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud	France
Passagen	Lisl Ponger		Austria
The Pillow Book	Peter Greenaway		United Kingdom France Netherlands	^[24]
Polite Madness	Stan Brakhage		United States
Prelude 1	Stan Brakhage		United States
Prelude 2	Stan Brakhage		United States
Prelude 3	Stan Brakhage		United States
Prelude 4	Stan Brakhage		United States
Prelude 5	Stan Brakhage		United States
Prelude 6	Stan Brakhage		United States
Prelude 7	Stan Brakhage		United States
Prelude 8	Stan Brakhage		United States
Prelude 9	Stan Brakhage		United States
Prelude 10	Stan Brakhage		United States
Prelude 11	Stan Brakhage		United States
Prelude 12	Stan Brakhage		United States
Prelude 13	Stan Brakhage		United States
Prelude 14	Stan Brakhage		United States
Prelude 15	Stan Brakhage		United States
Prelude 16	Stan Brakhage		United States
Prelude 17	Stan Brakhage		United States
Prelude 18	Stan Brakhage		United States
Prelude 19	Stan Brakhage		United States
Prelude 20	Stan Brakhage		United States
Prelude 21	Stan Brakhage		United States
Prelude 22	Stan Brakhage		United States
Prelude 23	Stan Brakhage		United States
Prelude 24	Stan Brakhage		United States
Sexual Saga	Stan Brakhage		United States
Shockingly Hot	Stan Brakhage		United States
Terminus for You	Nicolas Rey		France
Through Wounded Eyes	Stan Brakhage		United States
Triste	Nathaniel Dorsky		United States
Two Found Objects of Charles Boultenhouse	Stan Brakhage		United States
Village of Dreams	Yōichi Higashi	Mieko Harada, Kaneko Iwasaki, Hosei Komatsu	Japan	^[25]
1997
Astor Place	Eve Heller		United States
The Cat of the Worm's Green Realm	Stan Brakhage		United States
Divertimento	Stan Brakhage		United States
Film Ist.	Gustav Deutsch		Austria
Gummo	Harmony Korine	Jacob Reynolds, Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell	United States	^[26]
How I Learned to Stop Worring and Love Ariel Sharon	Avi Mograbi		Israel
Last Hymn to the Night - Novalis	Stan Brakhage		United States
Level Five	Chris Marker	Catherine Belkhodja	France
Lost Highway	David Lynch	Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty	United States	Surrealist film^[27]
Mein Herz – niemandem!	Helma Sanders-Brahms	Lena Stolze, Thomas Ruffer, René Schubert	Germany	^[28]
The Mirror	Jafar Panahi		Iran	^[29]
Post-socializem + Retroavantgarde + IRWIN	Marina Gržinić, Aina Šmid		Slovenia
Robinson in Space	Patrick Keiller	Paul Scofield	United Kingdom
Scars	James Herbert	Carter Davis, Alexandra Rosetti	United States	^[30]
Self Song/Death Song	Stan Brakhage		United States
Still Life	Harun Farocki		Germany
Story of I	Jo Ann Kaplan		United Kingdom
Today	Eija-Liisa Ahtila		Finland
Uncut	John Greyson		Canada	^[31]
	Stan Brakhage		United States
1998
... Reel Five	Stan Brakhage		United States
... Reel Four	Stan Brakhage		United States
... Reel One	Stan Brakhage		United States
... Reel Three	Stan Brakhage		United States
... Reel Two	Stan Brakhage		United States
Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy	Martin Arnold		Austria
L'Arrivée	Peter Tscherkassky		Austria
Dandy Dust	Hans A. Scheirl	Hans Scheirl, Leonora Rogers-Wright, Suzie Krüger, Tres Trash Temperilli	Austria
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Terry Gilliam	Johnny Depp, Benicio del Toro, Craig Bierko	United States	^[32]
Female Mystique and Spare Leaves	Stan Brakhage		United States
Festen	Thomas Vinterberg	Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Birthe Neumann, Paprika Steen	Denmark
Histoire(s) du cinéma	Jean-Luc Godard		France
His-story	Deimantas Narkevičius		Lithuania
The Idiots	Lars von Trier	Jens Albinus, Anne Louise Hassing, Bodil Jørgensen, Troels Lyby, Louise Meirtiz	Denmark
Money, A Mythology of Darkness	Vassilis Mazomenos		Greece
Pi	Darren Aronofsky		United States	^[33]
Shulie	Elisabeth Subrin		United States
Troika	Jennifer Montgomery		United States	^[34]
Variations	Nathaniel Dorsky		United States
1999
Alternating Currents	Stan Brakhage, Phil Solomon		United States
Beau travail	Claire Denis	Denis Lavant, Michel Subor	France
The Birds of Paradise	Stan Brakhage		United States
Cloud Chamber	Stan Brakhage		United States
Consolation Service	Eija-Liisa Ahtila		Finland
Coupling	Stan Brakhage		United States
Cremaster 5	Matthew Barney	Norman Mailer, Matthew Barney, Lauren Pine	United States	^[35]
Cricket Requiem	Stan Brakhage		United States
Dancing with Hydra	Takuji Suzuki		Japan	^[36]
The Dark Tower	Stan Brakhage		United States
E-CLIP-SE	Chris Marker		France
The Earthsong of the Cricket	Stan Brakhage		United States
Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore	Mark Leckey		United Kingdom
Get Ready	Peter Tscherkassky		Austria
Julien Donkey-Boy	Harmony Korine		United States	^[37]
The Lion and the Zebra Make God's Raw Jewels	Stan Brakhage		United States
Outer Space	Peter Tscherkassky		Austria
Persian Series #1	Stan Brakhage		United States
Persian Series #2	Stan Brakhage		United States
Persian Series #3	Stan Brakhage		United States
Persian Series #4	Stan Brakhage		United States
Persian Series #5	Stan Brakhage		United States
See You in Hell, My Darling	Nikos Nikolaidis	Vicky Harris, Valeria Christodoulidou, Paschalis Tsarouhas	Greece
Stately Mansions Did Decree	Stan Brakhage		United States
Stereoscope	William Kentridge		South Africa
This Side of Paradise	Jonas Mekas		United States
Worm and Web Love	Stan Brakhage		United States

Notes and References

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