List of avant-garde films of the 1970s

Avant-garde and experimental films din yina 1970s.

 Title  Director  Cast  Nation  Notes 1970The American SoldierRainer Werner FassbinderKarl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Jan GeorgeWest GermanyThe Animals of Eden and AfterStan BrakhageUnited States Berlin HorseMalcolm Le GriceSoundtrack by Brian EnoL'Eden et aprèsAlain Robbe-GrilletCatherine Jourdan, Richard Leduc, Lorraine Rainer, Pierre ZimmerFranceCzechoslovakiaEven Dwarfs Started SmallWerner HerzogHelmut DöringWest GermanyFog LineLarry GottheimUnited StatesGods of the PlagueRainer Werner FassbinderHanna Schygulla, Margarethe von Trotta, Harry BaerWest GermanyI Don't KnowPenelope SpheerisUnited StatesIt is Not the Homosexual Who is Perverse, But the Society in Which He LivesRosa von PraunheimWest GermanyThe Machine of EdenStan BrakhageUnited States Out 1Jacques RivetteHermine Karagheuz, Michèle Moretti, Karen Puig FranceTV seriesPerformanceDonald Cammell, Nicolas RoegJames Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita PallenbergUnited KingdomRemedial Reading ComprehensionOwen LandUnited StatesScenes from Under Childhood, Section FourStan BrakhageUnited StatesPart of Scenes from Under Childhood cycleSerene VelocityErnie GehrUnited StatesSexual Meditation No. 1: MotelStan BrakhageUnited StatesPart of Sexual Meditations cycleThomas Bernhard: Three DaysFerry RadaxThomas BernhardAustriaEl TopoAlejandro JodorowskyAlejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, Maria Lorenzio, David SilvaMexicoTrashPaul MorrisseyJoe Dallesandro, Jane Forth, Holly WoodlawnUnited StatesUnfoldingConi BeesonUnited StatesValerie and Her Week of WondersJaromil JirešHelena Anýžová, Karel Engel, Jaroslava Schallerová, CzechoslovakiaVladimir et RosaJean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre GorinJean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Anne WiazemskyFranceThe Weir-Falcon SagaStan BrakhageUnited States Zorns LemmaHollis FramptonUnited States 1971The Act of Seeing with One's Own EyesStan BrakhageUnited StatesPart of the "Pittsburgh Trilogy" Angels||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| 
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|Beware of a Holy Whore||Rainer Werner Fassbinder||Lou Castel, Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla||West Germany||
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|Carriage Trade||Warren Sonbert||||United States||
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|Critical Mass
|Hollis Frampton
|Barbara DiBenedetto, Frank Albetta
|United States
|Part of Hapax Legomena cycle
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|Deus Ex||Stan Brakhage||||United States||Part of the "Pittsburgh Trilogy" 
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|DIrty
|Stephen Dwoskin
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|United Kingdom
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|Door||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| 
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|Dresden Dynamo
|Lis Rhodes
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|United Kingdom
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|Eyes||Stan Brakhage||||United States||Part of the "Pittsburgh Trilogy" 
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|Football as Never Before||Helmuth Costand||George Best||United KingdomWest Germany||
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|Fox Fire Child Watch||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| 
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|Hand Grenade
|Gill Eatherley
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|United Kingdom
|Soundtrack by Neu!
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|I'm Too Sad to Tell You
|Bas Jan Ader
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|United States
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|A Journey to Avebury
|Derek Jarman
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|United Kingdom
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|Meditation||Jordan Belson|| ||United States||Abstract, colorCVM Belson Filmography
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|N. a pris les dés (N. Took the Dice)
|Alain Robbe-Grillet
|Catherine Jourdan, Richard Leduc, Pierre Zimmer
|France
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|(nostalgia)
|Hollis Frampton
|Michael Snow
|United States
|Part of Hapax Legomena cycle
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|The Peaceable Kingdom||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| 
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|Poem
|B. S. Johnson
|William Hoyland
|United Kingdom
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|Punishment Park
|Peter Watkins
|Paul Alelyanes, Carmen Argenziano, Stan Armsted, Harold Beaulieu, Jim Bohan
|United States
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|La Région Centrale
|Michael Snow
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|Canada
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|Sexual Meditation: Room with View||Stan Brakhage||||United States||Part of Sexual Meditations cycle
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|Travelling Matte
|Hollis Frampton
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|United States
|Part of Hapax Legomena cycle
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|The Trip to Door||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Viva la Muerte
|Fernando Arrabal
|Mahdi Chaouch, Núria Espert, Anouk Ferjac
|FranceTunisia
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|Western History||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism||Dušan Makavejev||Milena Dravić, Jagoda Kaloper, Ivica Vidović||Yugoslavia||
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|Chakra||Jordan Belson|| ||United States||Abstract, colorCVM Belson Filmography
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|La Cicatrice Interieure||Philippe Garrel||Nico, Pierre Clémenti, Philippe Garrel ||France||
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|Clocktime Trailer
|Stuart Pound
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|United Kingdom
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|The Death of Maria Malibran
|Werner Schroeter
|Ingrid Caven, Candy Darling, Christine Kaufman, Magdalena Montezuma
|West Germany
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|The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie||Luis Buñuel||Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Stéphane Audran||FranceItalySpain||
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|Dreamwood||James Broughton|| ||United States||
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|Dyn Amo
|Stephen Dwoskin
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|United Kingdom
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|Ecstasy of the Angels||Kōji Wakamatsu||Michio Akiyama, Masao Adachi, Rie Yokoyama||Japan||
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|Eye Myth Educational||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| 
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|Garden of Luxor
|Derek Jarman
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|United Kingdom
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|Hats Off to Hollywood
|Penelope Spheeris
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|United States
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|Hotel Monterrey
|Chantal Akerman
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|Belgium
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|Letter to Jane||Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin|| ||France||
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|Ordinary Matter
|Hollis Frampton
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|United States
|Part of Hapax Legomena cycle
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|Poetic Justice
|Hollis Frampton
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|United States
|Part of Hapax Legomena cycle
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|Portraits
|Barbara Meter
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|Netherlands
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|The Presence||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| 
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|The Process||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| 
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|Red Psalm||Miklós Jancsó||Lajos Balázsovits, Bertalan Solti, Janos Koltai||Hungary||
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|Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
|Jonas Mekas
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|Soviet UnionUnited States
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|Remote Control
|Hollis Frampton
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|United States
|Part of Hapax Legomena cycle
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|Requiem für einen Jungraulichen Koenig||Hans-Jürgen Syberberg||Peter Kern||West Germany||
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|The Riddle of Lumen
|Stan Brakhage
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|United States
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|Sexual Meditation: Faun's Room, Yale||Stan Brakhage||||United States||Part of Sexual Meditations cycle
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|Sexual Meditation: Hotel||Stan Brakhage||||United States||Part of Sexual Meditations cycle
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|Sexual Meditation: Office Suite||Stan Brakhage||||United States||Part of Sexual Meditations cycle
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|Sexual Meditation: Open Field||Stan Brakhage||||United States||Part of Sexual Meditations cycle
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|The Shores of Phos: A Fable||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Special Effects
|Hollis Frampton
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|United States
|Part of Hapax Legomena cycle
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|Threshold
|Malcolm Le Grice
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|United Kingdom
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|The Wold Shadow||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Can Dialectics Break Bricks?
|René Viénet
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|France
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|The Embassy
|Chris Marker
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|France
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|F for Fake||Orson Welles||Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Joseph Cotten||FranceIran||
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|Fat Man on a Beach
|Michael Bakewell
|B. S. Johnson
|United Kingdom
|TV film
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|Ganja & Hess
|Bill Gunn
|Duane Jones, Marlene Clark, Leonard Jackson
|United States
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|Gift||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|H is for House
|Peter Greenaway
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|United Kingdom
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|The Holy Mountain||Alejandro Jodorowsky||Alejandro Jodorowsky, Richard Rutowski, Jose Flores||MexicoUnited States||
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|I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse
|Fernando Arrabal
|Emmanuelle Riva, George Shannon
|France
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|Iluminacja||Krzysztof Zanussi||Edward Zebrowski, Marcin Latallo, Włodzimierz Zonn||Poland||
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|Immoral Tales||Walerian Borowczyk||Lise Danvers, Paloma Picasso, Charlotte Alexandra||FranceHungaryItaly||
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|Mann & Frau & Animal
|Valie Export
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|Austria
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|Occasional Work of a Female Slave
|Alexander Kluge
|Alexandra Kluge
|West Germany
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|Reel Time
|Annabel Nicolson
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|United Kingdom
|Expanded cinema
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|... Remote ... Remote
|Valie Export
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|Austria
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|Michael Barry
|Sondra Locke, Jared Martin, Paul Sand, Gene Barry
|United States
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|Sincerity I||Stan Brakhage||||United States||Part of Sincerity cycle
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|The Society of the Spectacle
|Guy Debord
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|France
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|Stolen Apples for Karen Blixen
|Derek Jarman
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|United Kingdom
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|Television Delivers People
|Richard Serra
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|United States
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|Themroc||Claude Faraldo||Michel Piccoli, Béatrice Romand, Jeanne Herviale||FranceItaly||
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|World on a Wire
|Rainer Werner Fassbinder
|Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin
|West Germany
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|Year of the Woman
|Sandra Hochman
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|United States
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|Aquarien||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Céline and Julie Go Boating||Jacques Rivette||Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier||France||
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|Clancy||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Dominion||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Dyketactics
|Barbara Hammer
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|United States
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|Edvard Munch
|Peter Watkins
|Gro Frås, Geir Westby
|NorwaySweden
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|Les Filles de Kamare
|René Viénet
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|France
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|Flight||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|He Was Born, He Suffered, He Died||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Hymn to Her||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|The Phantom of Liberty||Luis Buñuel||Jean-Claude Brialy, Monica Vitti, Paul Frankeur||FranceItaly||
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|Skein||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Sol||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Space Is the Place||John Coney||Sun Ra, Erika Leder, Barbara Deloney||United States||
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|Star Garden||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|The Stars Are Beautiful||Stan Brakhage||Jane Brakhage, Stan Brakhage, Myrrena Brakhage||United States||
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|Suite (212)
|Nam June Paik
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|United States
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|Sweet Movie||Dušan Makavejev||Carole Laure, John Vernon, Anna Prucnal||France||
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|The Text of Light||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|They Do Not Exist||Mustafa Abu Ali|| ||Palestine||
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|Vase de Noces||Thierry Zéno||Dominique Garny||Belgium||
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|The Wait
|Uzi Peres
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|Israel
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|Bataille de Waterloo|Marcel Broodthaers
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|Belgium
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|Black Moon||Louis Malle||Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Alexandra Stewart||France||
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|Circling|Peter Donebauer
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|United Kingdom
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|Condition of Illusion|Peter Gidal
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|United Kingdom
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|Evrydiki BA 2O37||Nikos Nikolaidis||Vera Tschechowa, John Moore, Niki Triantafillidi||GreeceWest Germany||
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|India Song|Marguerite Duras
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|France
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|Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles||Chantal Akerman||Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze||BelgiumFrance||
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|Light Music|Lis Rhodes
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|United Kingdom
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|The Mirror||Andrei Tarkovsky||Margarita Terekhova, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko||Soviet Union||
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|Nightcleaners, Part 1|Berwick Street Collective
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|United Kingdom
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|Number Two||Jean-Luc Godard||Sandrine Battistella, Pierre Oudrey||France||
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|Refutation of All the Judgements on Guy Debord's Film 'The Society of the Spectacle|Guy Debord
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|France
|Situationist film
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|Semiotics of the Kitchen
|Martha Rosler
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|United States
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|Short Films 1975||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Sincerity II||Stan Brakhage||||United States||Part of Sincerity cycle
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|The Tree of Guernica
|Fernando Arrabal
|Cosimo Cinieri, Ron Faber, Mariangela Melato
|FranceItaly
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|Untitled No. 9||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Untitled No. 10||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|A Malgam A
|Iván Zulueta
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|Spain
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|Absence||Stan Brakhage|| ||United States||Silent.http://www.cfmdc.org/node/110  CFMDC entryhttp://www.fredcamper.com/Brakhage/Filmography.html Fred Camper: Stan Brakhage filmographyhttp://canyoncinema.com/catalog/film/?i=276 Canyon Cinema entry
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|Airs||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Comment ça va?||Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville||Anne-Marie Miéville||France||
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|Crossroads
|Bruce Conner
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|United States
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|Desert||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|The Dream, NYC, The Return, The Flower||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|The Girl Chewing Gum
|John Smith
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|United Kingdom
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|Heart of Glass||Werner Herzog||Clemens Scheitz, Sonja Skiba, Volker Prechtel||West Germany||
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|Highs||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000||Alain Tanner||Jean-Luc Bideau, Myriam Boyer, ||FranceSwitzerland||
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|Leo es pardo
|Iván Zulueta
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|Spain
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|Migration, for Jack Nelson
|Bill Viola
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|United States
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|Rembrandt, Etc., and Jane||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Short Films 1976||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Tragoedia||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Trio||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Wienfilm 1896-1976
|Ernst Schmidt Jr.
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|Austria
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|Window||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Le Camion (The Lorry)
|Marguerite Duras
|Gérard Depardieu, Marguerite Duras
|France
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|The Domain of the Moment||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Eraserhead||David Lynch||Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates||United States||
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|The Governor||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|A Grin Without a Cat
|Chris Marker
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|France
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|Hitler: A Film from Germany||Hans-Jürgen Syberberg||Heinz Schubert||West Germany||
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|House
|Nobuhiko Obayashi
|Kimiko Ikegami
|Japan
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|I, an Actress
|George Kuchar
|George Kuchar, Barbara Lapsley
|United States
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|Music of the Spheres||Jordan Belson|| ||United States||Abstract, color. A revised version was edited in 2002.CVM Belson Filmography
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|Reflecting Pool
|Bill Viola
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|United States
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|Riddles of the Sphinx
|Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen
|Merdelle Jordine, Dinah Stabb, Riannon Tise
|United Kingdom
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|Sentimental Journey
|Anne Rees-Mogg
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|United Kingdom
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|Soldiers and Other Cosmic Objects||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Thames Barrier
|William Raban
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|United Kingdom
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|That Obscure Object of Desire
|Luis Buñuel
|Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Fernando Rey
|FranceSpain
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|Unsichtbare Gegner (Invisible Adversaries)||Valie Export||Susanne Widl, Peter Weibel, Josef Plavec||Austria||
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|Bird||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Burial Path||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Centre||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Césarée
|Marguerite Duras
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|France
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|Duplicity||Stan Brakhage||||United States||Part of Duplicity cycle
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|Duplicity II||Stan Brakhage||||United States||Part of Duplicity cycle
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|Forza Bastia!
|Jacques Tati, Sophie Tatischeff
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|France
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|Hand Exercises
|Uzi Peres
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|Israel
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|Jubilee||Derek Jarman||Jenny Runacre, Jordan, Nell Campbell||United Kingdom||
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|Light Reading
|Lis Rhodes
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|United Kingdom
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|Nightmare Series||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Often During the Day
|Joanna Davis
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|United Kingdom
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|Purity, and After||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Sincerity III||Stan Brakhage||||United States||Part of Sincerity cycle
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|Sluice||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Thot-Fal'N||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Visions of a City
|Lawrence P. Jordan
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|United States
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|A Walk Through H: Reincarnation of an Ornithologist
|Peter Greenaway
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|United Kingdom
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|@||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Allegoria|Stéphane Marti
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|France
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|Cartoon Le Mousse|Chick Strand
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|United States
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|The Cartoon Theatre of Dr. Gaz|Jeff Keen
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|United Kingdom
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|Creation||Stan Brakhage||||United States||
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|Ear to the Ground|David Van Tieghem
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|United States
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|Fever Dream|Chick Strand
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|United States
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|Orchestra Rehearsal||Federico Fellini||Balduin Baas, Elisabeth Labi, Ronaldo Bonacchi||FranceItalyWest Germany||
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|Race d'Ep (The Homosexual Century)|Guy Hocquenghem, Lionel Soukaz
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|France
|TV film
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|Radio/On|Chris Petit
|David Beames
|United Kingdom
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|Roman Numeral: I||Stan Brakhage||||United States||Part of Roman Numeral Series (also called the "Romans")
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|Roman Numeral: II||Stan Brakhage||||United States||Part of Roman Numeral Series (also called the "Romans")
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|Roman Numeral: III||Stan Brakhage||||United States||Part of Roman Numeral Series (also called the "Romans")
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|Sincerity IV||Stan Brakhage||||United States||Part of Sincerity cycle
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|Stalker||Andrei Tarkovsky||Alexander Kaidanovsky, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko||Soviet Union||
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|Tale of Tales||Yuri Norstein|| ||Soviet Union||
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|Tally Brown, New York|Rosa von Praunheim
|Tally Brown
|West GermanyUnited States
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|Thriller|Sally Potter
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|United Kingdom
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|The Wretches Are Still Singing''Nikos NikolaidisAlkis Panagiotidis, Konstantinos Tzoumas, Rita BensousanGreece

Notes

1970s
Avant-garde