List of avant-garde films of the 1970s

This is a list of avant-garde and experimental films released in the 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 EnoDiminished FrameRobert Beavers United States24 mins, B&W and ColorL'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 seriesPalinodeRobert Beavers United States21 mins, ColorPerformanceDonald 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 cycleThe Song of MoscowJonas MekasUnited StatesTravel Song seriesThomas 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|| |- |Beware of a Holy Whore||Rainer Werner Fassbinder||Lou Castel, Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla||West Germany|| |- |Carriage Trade||Warren Sonbert||||United States|| |- |Critical Mass |Hollis Frampton |Barbara DiBenedetto, Frank Albetta |United States |Part of Hapax Legomena cycle |- |Deus Ex||Stan Brakhage||||United States||Part of the "Pittsburgh Trilogy" |- |DIrty |Stephen Dwoskin | |United Kingdom

|Door||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| |- |Dresden Dynamo |Lis Rhodes | |United Kingdom

|Eyes||Stan Brakhage||||United States||Part of the "Pittsburgh Trilogy" |- |Football as Never Before||Helmuth Costand||George Best||United KingdomWest Germany|| |- |Fox Fire Child Watch||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| |- |Hand Grenade |Gill Eatherley | |United Kingdom |Soundtrack by Neu! |- |I'm Too Sad to Tell You |Bas Jan Ader | |United States

|A Journey to Avebury |Derek Jarman | |United Kingdom

|Meditation||Jordan Belson|| ||United States||Abstract, colorCVM Belson Filmography |- |N. a pris les dés (N. Took the Dice) |Alain Robbe-Grillet |Catherine Jourdan, Richard Leduc, Pierre Zimmer |France

|(nostalgia) |Hollis Frampton |Michael Snow |United States |Part of Hapax Legomena cycle |- |The Peaceable Kingdom||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| |- |Poem |B. S. Johnson |William Hoyland |United Kingdom

|Punishment Park |Peter Watkins |Paul Alelyanes, Carmen Argenziano, Stan Armsted, Harold Beaulieu, Jim Bohan |United States

|La Région Centrale |Michael Snow | |Canada

|Sexual Meditation: Room with View||Stan Brakhage||||United States||Part of Sexual Meditations cycle |- |Still |Ernie Gehr | |United States

|Still Light |Robert Beavers | |United States |25 mins, Color |- |Travelling Matte |Hollis Frampton | |United States |Part of Hapax Legomena cycle |- |The Trip to Door||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| |- |Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets |Shuji Terayama | |Japan

|Viva la Muerte |Fernando Arrabal |Mahdi Chaouch, Núria Espert, Anouk Ferjac |FranceTunisia

|Western History||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| |- |W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism||Dušan Makavejev||Milena Dravić, Jagoda Kaloper, Ivica Vidović||Yugoslavia|| |- | colspan="5" style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9" | 1972|- |Chakra||Jordan Belson|| ||United States||Abstract, colorCVM Belson Filmography |- |La Cicatrice Interieure||Philippe Garrel||Nico, Pierre Clémenti, Philippe Garrel ||France|| |- |Clocktime Trailer |Stuart Pound | |United Kingdom

|The Death of Maria Malibran |Werner Schroeter |Ingrid Caven, Candy Darling, Christine Kaufman, Magdalena Montezuma |West Germany

|The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie||Luis Buñuel||Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Stéphane Audran||FranceItalySpain|| |- |Dreamwood||James Broughton|| ||United States|| |- |Dyn Amo |Stephen Dwoskin | |United Kingdom

|Ecstasy of the Angels||Kōji Wakamatsu||Michio Akiyama, Masao Adachi, Rie Yokoyama||Japan|| |- |Eye Myth Educational||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| |- |From the Notebook of... |Robert Beavers | |United States |48 mins, Color |- |Garden of Luxor |Derek Jarman | |United Kingdom

|Hats Off to Hollywood |Penelope Spheeris | |United States

|Hotel Monterrey |Chantal Akerman | |Belgium

|Letter to Jane||Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin|| ||France|| |- |Ordinary Matter |Hollis Frampton | |United States |Part of Hapax Legomena cycle |- |The Painting |Robert Beavers | |United States |12 mins, Color |- |Poetic Justice |Hollis Frampton | |United States |Part of Hapax Legomena cycle |- |Portraits |Barbara Meter | |Netherlands

|The Presence||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| |- |The Process||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| |- |Red Psalm||Miklós Jancsó||Lajos Balázsovits, Bertalan Solti, Janos Koltai||Hungary|| |- |Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania |Jonas Mekas | |Soviet UnionUnited States

|Remote Control |Hollis Frampton | |United States |Part of Hapax Legomena cycle |- |Requiem für einen Jungraulichen Koenig||Hans-Jürgen Syberberg||Peter Kern||West Germany|| |- |The Riddle of Lumen |Stan Brakhage | |United States

|Sexual Meditation: Faun's Room, Yale||Stan Brakhage||||United States||Part of Sexual Meditations cycle |- |Sexual Meditation: Hotel||Stan Brakhage||||United States||Part of Sexual Meditations cycle |- |Sexual Meditation: Office Suite||Stan Brakhage||||United States||Part of Sexual Meditations cycle |- |Sexual Meditation: Open Field||Stan Brakhage||||United States||Part of Sexual Meditations cycle |- |The Shores of Phos: A Fable||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| |- |Special Effects |Hollis Frampton | |United States |Part of Hapax Legomena cycle |- |Threshold |Malcolm Le Grice | |United Kingdom

|The Wold Shadow||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| |- | colspan="5" style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9" | 1973|- |Can Dialectics Break Bricks? |René Viénet | |France

|The Embassy |Chris Marker | |France

|F for Fake||Orson Welles||Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Joseph Cotten||FranceIran|| |- |Fat Man on a Beach |Michael Bakewell |B. S. Johnson |United Kingdom |TV film |- |Ganja & Hess |Bill Gunn |Duane Jones, Marlene Clark, Leonard Jackson |United States

|Gift||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| |- |H is for House |Peter Greenaway | |United Kingdom

|The Holy Mountain||Alejandro Jodorowsky||Alejandro Jodorowsky, Richard Rutowski, Jose Flores||MexicoUnited States|| |- |I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse |Fernando Arrabal |Emmanuelle Riva, George Shannon |France

|Iluminacja||Krzysztof Zanussi||Edward Zebrowski, Marcin Latallo, Włodzimierz Zonn||Poland|| |- |Immoral Tales||Walerian Borowczyk||Lise Danvers, Paloma Picasso, Charlotte Alexandra||FranceHungaryItaly|| |- |Mann & Frau & Animal |Valie Export | |Austria

|Occasional Work of a Female Slave |Alexander Kluge |Alexandra Kluge |West Germany

|The Second Coming of Suzanne |Michael Barry |Sondra Locke, Jared Martin, Paul Sand, Gene Barry |United States

|Sincerity I||Stan Brakhage||||United States||Part of Sincerity cycle |- |The Society of the Spectacle |Guy Debord | |France

|Stolen Apples for Karen Blixen |Derek Jarman | |United Kingdom

|Television Delivers People |Richard Serra | |United States

|Themroc||Claude Faraldo||Michel Piccoli, Béatrice Romand, Jeanne Herviale||FranceItaly|| |- |Work Done |Robert Beavers | |United States |22 mins, Color |- |World on a Wire |Rainer Werner Fassbinder |Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin |West Germany

|Year of the Woman |Sandra Hochman | |United States

| colspan="5" style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9" | 1974|- |Aquarien||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| |- |Céline and Julie Go Boating||Jacques Rivette||Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier||France|| |- |Clancy||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| |- |Dominion||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| |- |Dyketactics |Barbara Hammer | |United States

|Edvard Munch |Peter Watkins |Gro Frås, Geir Westby |NorwaySweden

|Les Filles de Kamare |René Viénet | |France

|Flight||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| |- |He Was Born, He Suffered, He Died||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| |- |Hymn to Her||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| |- |The Phantom of Liberty||Luis Buñuel||Jean-Claude Brialy, Monica Vitti, Paul Frankeur||FranceItaly|| |- |Ruskin |Robert Beavers | |United States |45 mins, Color and B&W |- |Skein||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| |- |Sol||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| |- |Space Is the Place||John Coney||Sun Ra, Erika Leder, Barbara Deloney||United States|| |- |Star Garden||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| |- |The Stars Are Beautiful||Stan Brakhage||Jane Brakhage, Stan Brakhage, Myrrena Brakhage||United States|| |- |Suite (212) |Nam June Paik | |United States

|Sweet Movie||Dušan Makavejev||Carole Laure, John Vernon, Anna Prucnal||France|| |- |The Text of Light||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| |- |They Do Not Exist||Mustafa Abu Ali|| ||Palestine|| |- |Vase de Noces||Thierry Zéno||Dominique Garny||Belgium|| |- |The Wait |Uzi Peres | |Israel

|Black Moon||Louis Malle||Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Alexandra Stewart||France|| |- |Circling|Peter Donebauer | |United Kingdom

|Condition of Illusion|Peter Gidal | |United Kingdom

|Evrydiki BA 2O37||Nikos Nikolaidis||Vera Tschechowa, John Moore, Niki Triantafillidi||GreeceWest Germany|| |- |India Song|Marguerite Duras | |France

|Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles||Chantal Akerman||Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze||BelgiumFrance|| |- |Light Music|Lis Rhodes | |United Kingdom

|The Mirror||Andrei Tarkovsky||Margarita Terekhova, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko||Soviet Union|| |- |Nightcleaners, Part 1|Berwick Street Collective | |United Kingdom

|Number Two||Jean-Luc Godard||Sandrine Battistella, Pierre Oudrey||France|| |- |Refutation of All the Judgements on Guy Debord's Film 'The Society of the Spectacle|Guy Debord | |France |Situationist film |- |Semiotics of the Kitchen |Martha Rosler | |United States

|Short Films 1975||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| |- |Sincerity II||Stan Brakhage||||United States||Part of Sincerity cycle |- |The Tree of Guernica |Fernando Arrabal |Cosimo Cinieri, Ron Faber, Mariangela Melato |FranceItaly

|Untitled No. 9||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| |- |Untitled No. 10||Stan Brakhage||||United States|| |- | colspan="5" style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9" | 1976|- |A Malgam A |Iván Zulueta | |Spain

|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 |-

List of avant-garde films of the 1970s

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