This is a list of avant-garde and experimental films released between 1960 and 1969. Unless where noted, all films had sound and were in black and white.

1960–1964

Title Director Cast Nation Notes Ref(s)1960Actua-Tilt Jean HermanMonique Le Porrier, Claude-Jean PhillipeFrance"Actua-tilt." Enoch Pratt Free Library. Accessed January 3, 2024.Arnulf Rainer Peter Kubelka AustriaBäume in Herbst (Trees in Autumn)Kurt KrenThe DeadStan BrakhageKenneth AngerUnited States "Stan Brakhage filmography." Fred Camper. The Flower ThiefRon RiceTaylor Mead Dixon, Wheeler Winston. "Ron Rice's The Flower Thief (1960)" (August 25, 2011). University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Accessed October 10, 2011.Savage EyeBen Maddow, Sidney Meyers, Joseph StrickVasarely|Peter Kassovitz | |France |Music: "NEG-ALE," by Iannis Xenakis. |"Xenakis Edition 9." Mode Records. Accessed June 24, 2026. |- | |1961|- |Allures |Jordan Belson | |United States |Abstract animation, color.

|The Autumn Feast||Piero Heliczer, Jeff Keen||Piero Heliczer, Kate Heliczer ||||Black and white/color, sound on tape.||"Homepage." Piero Heliczer. Accessed April 12, 2014-04-12. |- |Critique de la séparation |Guy Debord | |France

|Dadascope |Hans Richter | |United States

|A Fire |Ebrahim Golestan | |Iran

|Forgotten Faces |Peter Watkins | |United Kingdom

|Guns of the Trees |Jonas Mekas | |rowspan="6" | United States

|Mr Hayashi |Bruce Baillie

|Night Tide||Curtis Harrington||Dennis Hopper, Margaret Cameron||||Axmaker, Sean."Special Theme: Roger Corman" (April 1, 2010). Turner Classic Movies. Accessed June 25, 2026. |- |On Sundays |Bruce Baillie |Jean Wong, Roy Ferguson |Begun in 1960. Baillie's first film, a hybrid of documentary and experimental narrative. |"Bruce Bailliel's On Sundays." Film-Maker's Coop. Accessed December 9, 2017."On Sundays." Light Cone Entry. Accessed June 24, 2026. |- |The Sin of Jesus||Robert Frank||Roberts Blossom, Julie Bovasso ||Based on story by Isaac Babel, music by Morton Feldman.||"The Sin of Jesus." Film-Maker's Coop. Accessed June 24, 2026. |- |Thigh Line Lyre Triangular||Stan Brakhage||Jane Brakhage|||| |- | | 1962|- |Baud'larian Capers||Ken Jacobs||||rowspan="4" | United States|||| |- |Blue Moses||rowspan="2"|Stan Brakhage||Robert Benson|||| |- |Dog Star Man: Prelude||Stan Brakhage, Jane Brakhage|||| |- |Heaven and Earth Magic |Harry Smith

|The House is Black |Forugh Farrokhzad | |Iran

|La Jetée||Chris Marker||Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich || rowspan="2" |France||||"La Jetée." The Criterion Collection. Accessed June 24, 2026. |- |Regardez-moi, cela suffit |Ben Vautier

|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||rowspan="11"|United States||Filmed in 1959-60; completed by Jacobs in 1963.||Sitney, P. Adams. "Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000" (2003). Oxford University Press, pp. 315-319. . |- |By the Sea |Pat O'Neill

|Christmas on Earth||Barbara Rubin||Gerard Malanga||Black and white.|| |- |Chumlum||Ron Rice|||||| |- |The Death of P'town||Ken Jacobs||||||

|Dog Star Man: Part I||Stan Brakhage||Stan Brakhage, Jane Brakhage|||| |- |The Existentialist |Leon Prochnik |Ruth Abramson, Gilbert Archer, Edward Blair

|Flaming Creatures||Jack Smith||Jack Smith, Mario Montez, Judith Malina||Color.||Hoberman, J. "Up On the Roof" (January 5, 2012). Museum of the Moving Images. Accessed June 24, 2026. |- |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.||"Little Stabs at Happiness." Underground Film Guide. February 26, 2014."Little Stabs at Happiness." Via Vimeo. Accessed January 3, 2024. |- |Mothlight |Stan Brakhage

|Normal Love |Jack Smith |Diana Baccus, Beverly Grant, Mario Montez |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||rowspan="2"|United States|||| |- |Scorpio Rising||Kenneth Anger||Bruce Byron||Color.|| |- |Sun in Your Head||Wolf Vostell|| ||West Germany||Early video art, captured on film; converted back to video in 1967.||"Wolf Vostell 1932-1998." UbuWeb Film & Video. Accessed June 25, 2026. |- |Towers Open Fire||Antony Balch||William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin||United Kingdom||Black and white/color, first shown in 1966; written by Burroughs.||Bridgett, Rob. "An Appraisal of the Films of William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Anthony Balch in terms of Recent Avant Garde Theory" (February 1, 2003). Bright Lights Film Journal, issue 39. Accessed June 25, 2026. |- |TV Plug||Ken Jacobs|| ||rowspan="2"|United States||||

|Twice a Man |Gregory Markopoulos

|William Buys a Parrot||Antony Balch||William S. Burroughs||United Kingdom||Color.||Murphy, Timothy S. "Wising Up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs" (1997). University of California Press, pg. 207. Accessed June 25, 2026. |- | | 1964''' |- |Blue Rider (Godard-art)|Tomislav Gotovac | |Yugoslavia

|The Brig|Jonas Mekas |The Living Theatre, Warren Finnerty, Henry Howard, Tom Lilard, Steven Ben Israel, Rufus Collins, Michael Elias, George Bartenieff, Henry Proach, James Anderson |rowspan="4"|United States

|The Cool World |Shirley Clarke |Hampton Clanton |Black and white, music by Dizzy Gillespie.

|Dog Star Man||Stan Brakhage||||Begun in 1961, color, silent.|| |- |Help! My Snowman's Burning Down||Carson Davidson||Bob Larkin||Independently produced surrealist comedy short, nominated for best short subject, Academy Awards 1965. Music by Gerry Mulligan.||Davidson, Carson. "Help, My Snowman's Burning Down" (1964). Via Internet Archive. Accessed June 25, 2026."Homepage." Carson Davidson. Accessed June 25, 2026. |- |Hugh MacDiarmid: A Portrait|Margaret Tait |Hugh MacDiarmid |United Kingdom

|I Am Cuba|Mikhail Kalotozov |Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood |CubaSoviet Union

|It Happened Here|Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo |Pauline Murray, Sebastian Shaw |United Kingdom

|The Last Clean Shirt|Alfred Leslie | |rowspan="10"|United States |Dialogue by Frank O'Hara. |Brossard, Olivier. "Olivier Brossard on 'The Last Clean Shirt,' a film by Alfred Leslie & Frank O'Hara" (December 29, 2014). Jacket2. Accessed August 21, 2017. |- |Sleep||Andy Warhol||John Giorno||Filmed in July 1963; first shown in January 1964.||Comenas, Gary. "Sleep" (2002). Warholstars. Accessed June 25, 2026. |- |Song 1||rowspan="8"|Stan Brakhage||Stan Brakhage, Jane Brakhage||rowspan="8"|Part of Songs cycle.|| |- |Song 2|||| |- |Song 3|||| |- |Song 4|||| |- |Song 5||Jane Brakhage|| |- |Song 6|||| |- |Song 7|||| |- |Song 8''

1965–1969