# 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 | Nation | Notes |
| 1960 |||||
| Actua-Tilt | Jean Herman (Jean Vautrin) | Monique Le Porrier, Claude-Jean Phillipe | France | |
| Arnulf Rainer | Peter Kubelka | | Austria | |
| Bäume in Herbst (Trees in Autumn) | Kurt Kren | | Austria | |
| The Dead | Stan Brakhage | Kenneth Anger | United States | |
| The Flower Thief | Ron Rice | Taylor Mead | United States | |
| Savage Eye | Ben Maddow, Sidney Meyers, Joseph Strick | | United States | |
| Vasarely' | Peter Kassovitz | | France | Music, "NEG-ALE," by Iannis Xenakis |
| 1961 |||||
| Allures | Jordan Belson | | United States | Abstract animation, color |
| The Autumn Feast | Piero Heliczer, Jeff Keen | Piero Heliczer, Kate Heliczer | United Kingdom | Black and white/color, sound on tape |
| Critique de la séparation | Guy Debord | | France | |
| Dadascope | Hans Richter | | United States | |
| A Fire | Ebrahim Golestan | | Iran | |
| Forgotten Faces | Peter Watkins | | United Kingdom | |
| Mr Hayashi | Bruce Baillie | | United States | |
| Night Tide | Curtis Harrington | Dennis Hopper, Margaret Cameron | United States | |
| On Sundays | Bruce Baillie | Jean Wong, Roy Ferguson | United States | Begun in 1960. Baillie's first film, a hybrid of documentary and experimental narrative. |
| The Sin of Jesus | Robert Frank | Roberts Blossom, Julie Bovasso | United States | Based on story by Isaac Babel, music by Morton Feldman. |
| Thigh Line Lyre Triangular | Stan Brakhage | Jane Brakhage | United States | |
| 1962 |||||
| Baud'larian Capers | Ken Jacobs | | United States | |
| Blue Moses | Stan Brakhage | Robert Benson | United States | |
| Dog Star Man: Prelude | Stan Brakhage | Stan Brakhage, Jane Brakhage | United States | |
| Heaven and Earth Magic | Harry Smith | | United States | |
| The House is Black | Forugh Farrokhzad | | Iran | |
| La Jetée | Chris Marker | Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich | France | |
| Regardez-moi, cela suffit | Ben (Ben Vautier) | | France | |
| Sonne halt! | Ferry Radax | Konrad Bayer | Austria | |
| Speak | John Latham | | United Kingdom | |
| Thanatopsis | Ed Emshwiller | | United States | |
| 1963 |||||
| Blonde Cobra | Ken Jacobs, Bob Fleischner | Jack Smith, Jerry Sims | United States | Filmed in 1959-60; completed by Jacobs in 1963 |
| By the Sea | Pat O'Neill | | United States | |
| Christmas on Earth | Barbara Rubin | Gerard Malanga | United States | Black and white |
| Chumlum | Ron Rice | | United States |
| The Death of P'town | Ken Jacobs | | United States | |
| Dog Star Man: Part I | Stan Brakhage | Stan Brakhage, Jane Brakhage | United States | |
| The Existentialist | Leon Prochnik | Ruth Abramson, Gilbert Archer, Edward Blair | United States | |
| Flaming Creatures | Jack Smith | Jack Smith, Mario Montez, Judith Malina | United States | Color |
| Little Stabs at Happiness | Ken Jacobs | Jack Smith, Jerry Sims | United States | Color; partly filmed in 1959-60 and often dated to 1960, but film states 1963 |
| Mothlight | Stan Brakhage | | United States | |
| Normal Love | Jack Smith | Diana Baccus, Beverly Grant, Mario Montez | United States | Color |
| O necem jinem (Something Different) | Vera Chytilová | Vladimir Bosak, Eva Bosáková, Dagmar Cejnkova | Czechoslovakia | |
| The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man | Ron Rice | Winifred Bryan, Taylor Mead | United States |
| Scorpio Rising | Kenneth Anger | Bruce Byron | United States | Color |
| Sun in Your Head | Wolf Vostell | | West Germany | Early video art, captured on film; converted back to video in 1967 |
| Towers Open Fire | Antony Balch | William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin | United Kingdom | Black and white/color, first shown in 1966; written by Burroughs |
| TV Plug | Ken Jacobs | | United States | |
| Twice a Man | Gregory Markopoulos | | United States |
| William Buys a Parrot | Antony Balch | William S. Burroughs | United Kingdom | Color |
| 1964 |||||
| Blue Rider (Godard-art) | Tomislav Gotovac | | Yugoslavia | |
| The Brig | Jonas Mekas | Jim Anderson, Warren Finnerty | United States | |
| The Cool World | Shirley Clarke | Hampton Clanton | United States | Black and white, music by Dizzy Gillespie |
| Dog Star Man | Stan Brakhage | | United States | Begun in 1961, color, silent |
| Help! My Snowman's Burning Down | Carson Davidson | Bob Larkin | United States | Independently produced surrealist comedy short, nominated for best short subject, Academy Awards 1965. Music by Gerry Mulligan. |
| Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait | Margaret Tait | Hugh MacDiarmid | United Kingdom | |
| I Am Cuba | Mikhail Kalotozov | Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood | Cuba Soviet Union | |
| It Happened Here | Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo | Pauline Murray, Sebastian Shaw | United Kingdom | |
| The Last Clean Shirt | Alfred Leslie | | United States | Dialogue by Frank O'Hara |
| Sleep | Andy Warhol | John Giorno | United States | Filmed in July 1963; first shown in January 1964. |
| Song 1 | Stan Brakhage | Stan Brakhage, Jane Brakhage | United States | Part of Songs cycle |
| Song 2 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | Part of Songs cycle |
| Song 3 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | Part of Songs cycle |
| Song 4 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | Part of Songs cycle |
| Song 5 | Stan Brakhage | Jane Brakhage | United States | Part of Songs cycle |
| Song 6 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | Part of Songs cycle |
| Song 7 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | Part of Songs cycle |
| Song 8 | Stan Brakhage | | United States | Part of Songs cycle |