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 | Country | Subgenre/notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | ||||||
| Actua-Tilt | Jean Herman (Jean Vautrin) | Monique Le Porrier, Claude-Jean Phillipe |  | [1] | ||
| Arnulf Rainer | Peter Kubelka |  | ||||
| The Flower Thief | Ron Rice | Taylor Mead |  | [2] | ||
| 1961 | ||||||
| The Autumn Feast | Piero Heliczer, Jeff Keen | Piero Heliczer, Kate Heliczer |  | Black and white/color, sound on tape [3] | ||
| Night Tide | Curtis Harrington | Dennis Hopper, Margaret Cameron | | [4] | ||
| 1962 | ||||||
| La Jetée | Chris Marker | Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich | | [5] | ||
| 1963 | ||||||
| Blonde Cobra | Ken Jacobs, Bob Fleischner | Jack Smith, Jerry Sims | | Filmed in 1959-60; completed by Jacobs in 1963[6] | ||
| Christmas on Earth | Barbara Rubin | Gerard Malanga | | Black and white | ||
| Flaming Creatures | Jack Smith | Jack Smith, Mario Montez, Judith Malina | | Color[7] | ||
| Little Stabs at Happiness | Ken Jacobs | Jack Smith, Jerry Sims | | Color; partly filmed in 1959-60 and often dated to 1960, but film states 1963[8][9] | ||
| Scorpio Rising | Kenneth Anger | Bruce Byron | | Color | ||
| Towers, Open Fire | Antony Balch | William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin | | Black and white/color, first shown in 1966; written by Burroughs[10] | ||
| William Buys a Parrot | Antony Balch | William S. Burroughs | | Color[11] | ||
| 1964 | ||||||
| The Cool World | Shirley Clarke | Hampton Clanton | |
Black and white, music by Dizzy Gillespie | ||
| Dog Star Man | Stan Brakhage | | Begun in 1961, color, silent[12] | |||
References
- ↑ Pratt Library 16mm Experimental Films
- ↑ Ron Rice's The Flower Thief
- ↑ Piero Heliczer Web Page
- ↑ TCM Dennis Hopper Tribute: Night Tide
- ↑ Criterion Collection La Jetée DVD
- ↑ P. Adams Sitney: Visionary Film [P. Adams Sitney - Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000. Oxford University Press, 2003, ppg. 315-319]
- ↑ J. Hoberman: Up On the Roof
- ↑ Underground Film Guide entry
- ↑ Little Stabs at Happiness
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Timothy S. Murphy. Wising Up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs. University of California Press, 1997, pg. 207
- ↑ Brakhage filmography
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