Where To Start: 50 Avant-Garde Films for the Curious
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By Michael Sicinsky, @msicism on Letterboxd, @AcademicHack on twitter.
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These are mostly canonical works, but it's also a fairly personal list and should be taken with a grain of salt.
These films will not be to everyone's taste, nor should they be. But they will give a pretty broad sense of the history of the field, offer some cultural literacy in a-g film, and should serve as a good jumping-off point for further exploration.
Organized chronologically. But feel free to dive in anywhere you like.
Many can be found on YouTube, Ubuweb, or other nefarious sources.
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Not in IMDb:
MUTINY, Abigail Child, 1983.
THE GREAT ART OF KNOWING, David Gatten, 2004.
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Le retour à la raison
1923 — a.k.a. Return to Reason, in 1 top list Check -
2 new
Ballet mécanique
1924, in 7 top lists Check -
3 new
Un chien andalou
1929 — a.k.a. An Andalusian Dog, in 25 top lists Check -
4 new
Chelovek s kino-apparatom
1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check -
5 new
Rose Hobart
1936, in 6 top lists Check -
6 new
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943, in 10 top lists Check -
7 new
The Lead Shoes
1949, in 3 top lists Check -
8 new
Traité de bave et d'éternité
1951 — a.k.a. Venom and Eternity, in 1 top list Check -
9 new
Free Radicals
1958, in 7 top lists Check -
10 new
Very Nice, Very Nice
1961, in 3 top lists Check -
11 new
Kiss
1963, in 2 top lists Check -
12 new
Little Stabs at Happiness
1960, in 3 top lists Check -
13 new
Mothlight
1963, in 6 top lists Check -
14 new
Scorpio Rising
1963, in 9 top lists Check -
15 new
Go! Go! Go!
1964, in 1 top list Check -
16 new
Now
1965, in 5 top lists Check -
17 new
Peyote Queen
1965, in 0 top lists Check -
18 new
Report
1967, in 4 top lists Check -
19 new
Castro Street
1966, in 3 top lists Check -
20 new
Hold Me While I'm Naked
1966, in 2 top lists Check -
21 new
Unsere Afrikareise
1966, in 3 top lists Check -
22 new
Fuses
1967, in 4 top lists Check -
23 new
Wavelength
1967, in 9 top lists Check -
24 new
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
1968, in 7 top lists Check -
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My Name Is Oona
1969, in 1 top list Check -
26 new
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G
1969, in 1 top list Check -
27 new
Berlin Horse
1970, in 0 top lists Check -
28 new
Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia
1971, in 8 top lists Check -
29 new
Dyn Amo
1972, in 0 top lists Check -
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Gulls and Buoys
1972, in 1 top list Check -
31 new
La dialectique peut-elle casser des briques?
1973 — a.k.a. Can Dialectics Break Bricks?, in 0 top lists Check -
32 new
Film About a Woman Who...
1974, in 0 top lists Check -
33 new
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080...
1975, in 12 top lists Check -
34 new
One Way Boogie Woogie
1977, in 1 top list Check -
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Spacy
1981, in 1 top list Check -
36 new
Standard Gauge
1984, in 2 top lists Check -
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Optic Nerve
1985, in 0 top lists Check -
38 new
Fake Fruit Factory
1986, in 1 top list Check -
39 new
Sink or Swim
1990, in 1 top list Check -
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Side/Walk/Shuttle
1992, in 2 top lists Check -
41 new
Passage à l'acte
1993, in 0 top lists Check -
42 new
Variations
1998, in 1 top list Check -
43 new
Outer Space
1999, in 2 top lists Check -
44 new
Time and Tide
2000, in 0 top lists Check -
45 new
Light Is Waiting
2007, in 0 top lists Check -
46 new
Niupi er
2009 — a.k.a. Oxhide II, in 3 top lists Check -
47 new
Something Between Us
2016, in 0 top lists Check -
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Ears, Nose and Throat
2016, in 0 top lists
Last updated on Feb 11, 2023; source