List of avant-garde films of the 1990s

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This is a list of avant-garde and experimental films released in the 1990s.

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1990
Absurd | John Maybury |  | United Kingdom |
Archangel | Guy Maddin | Kyle McCulloch, Kathy Marykuca, Sarah Neville | Canada | [1]
Babylon Series #2 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States | Part of the Babylon Series
Babylon Series #3 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States | Part of the Babylon Series
Bilokacija | Marina Gržinić, Aina Šmid |  | Yugoslavia  |
City Streaming | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Close-Up (1990 film) | Abbas Kiarostami |  | Iran  |
The Comb | Brothers Quay |  | United Kingdom  |
The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia | Jan Švankmajer |  | Czech Republic  |
The Garden | Derek Jarman | Mark Adley, Spencer Leigh, Tilda Swinton | United Kingdom  |
Geography | Breda Beban, Hrvoje Horvatić |  | Yugoslavia  |
Glaze of Cathexis | Stan Brakhage |  | United States | Part of the Three Hand-Painted Films
How to Live in the German Federal Republic | Harun Farocki |  | West Germany  |
Moscow Portraits | Marina Gržinić, Aina Šmid |  | Yugoslavia  |
Passage Through: A Ritual | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Singapore Sling | Nikos Nikolaidis | Meredyth Herold, Panos Thanassoulis, Michele Valley | Greece |
Tenamonya Connection | Masashi Yamamoto | Reiko Arai | Japan
Hong Kong | [2]
The Thatch of Night | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Vision of the Fire Tree | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Visions in Meditation #3: Plato's Cave | Stan Brakhage |  | United States | Part of the Visions in Meditation Cycle
Visions in Meditation #4: D.H. Lawrence | Stan Brakhage |  | United States | Part of the Visions in Meditation Cycle
You Be Mother | Sarah Pucill |  | United Kingdom  |
1991
Agnus Dei Kinder Synapse | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
A Child's Garden and the Serious Sea | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Christ Mass Sex Dance | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Delicatessen | Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus | France | Surrealist film[3]
Edward II | Derek Jarman | Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry, Andrew Tiernan, Steven Waddington | United Kingdom  |
Europa | Lars von Trier | Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Ernst-Hugo Järegård | Denmark |
Flaming Ears | Ursula Pürrer, Hans A. Scheirl, Dietmar Schipek |  | Austria  |
Franz Kafka | Piotr Dumala |  | Poland  |
Naked Lunch | David Cronenberg | Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm | Canada
UK | [4]
Prospero's Books | Peter Greenaway | John Gielgud, Michael Clark, Michel Blanc | UK
France | [5]
Traveling at Night | Chris Kraus |  | United States  |
Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America | Craig Baldwin |  | United States  |
1992
Acidfilmda | Metamkine |  | France  |
The Bride, The Bachelors – Even | Sanja Iveković, Dalibor Martinis |  | Yugoslavia  |
A Cage of Flame | Kayla Parker |  | United Kingdom  |
Crack Glass Eulogy | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Falling Lessons | Amy Halpern |  | United States  |
Fatima's Letter | Alia Syed |  | United Kingdom  |
I am My Own Woman | Rosa von Praunheim | Charlotte von Mahlsdorf | Germany  |
Interpolations I-V | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
The Last Bolshevik | Chris Marker |  | France  |
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media | Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick | Noam Chomsky | United States  |
Jidlo | Jan Švankmajer |  | Czech Republic | [6]
Side/Walk/Shuttle | Ernie Gehr |  | United States  |
Untitled (For Marilyn) | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Videograms of a Revolution | Haron Farocki, Andrei Ujică |  | Romania
Germany  |
Wittgenstein Tractatus | Péter Forgács |  | Hungary  |
Zefiro Torna | Jonas Mekas |  | United States  |
1993
Anamorphosis, or De Artificiali Perspectiva | Brothers Quay |  | United Kingdom  |
Artwar | Jeff Keen |  | United Kingdom  |
The Attendant | Isaac Julien |  | United Kingdom  |
Autumnal | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Blossom-Gift/Favor | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Blue | Derek Jarman | John Quentin, Nigel Terry, Derek Jarman | United Kingdom | [7]
Boulder Blues and Pearls and... | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Careful | Guy Maddin | Kyle McCulloch, Gosia Dobrowolska, Sarah Neville | Canada | [8]
Ephemeral Solidity | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Eyewitnesses in Foreign Countries | Gustav Deutsch, Mostafa Tabbou |  | Austria
Morocco  |
Fast Trip, Long Drop | Gregg Bordowitz |  | United States  |
Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life | Peter Capaldi | Richard E. Grant | United Kingdom | [9]
Gender Troublemakers | Xantha Philippa Mackay, Mirha-Soleil Ross |  | Canada  |
The Harrowing | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Passage à l'acte | Martin Arnold |  | Austria  |
Project Eleonara | Rühm T |  | Estonia  |
Smoking/No Smoking | Alain Resnais | Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi | France
Italy | [10]
Stellar | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Stille Nacht II: Tales from the Vienna Woods | Brothers Quay |  | United Kingdom  |
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You | Brothers Quay |  | United Kingdom  |
Study in Color and Black and White | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Three Homerics | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Tryst Haunt | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Wittgenstein | Derek Jarman | Karl Johnson, Michael Gough, Tilda Swinton | United Kingdom | [11]
1994
A.13 (short) | William Raban |  | United Kingdom  |
Black Ice | Stan Brakhage |  | United States | [12]
Cannot Exist | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Cannot Not Exist | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Chartres Series | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Elementary Phrases | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Faust | Jan Švankmajer | Petr Čepek | Czech Republic
France
United Kingdom
Germany | [13]
From: First Hymn to the Night - Novalis | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
London | Patrick Keiller | Paul Scofield | United Kingdom  |
Luna 10 | Marina Gržinić, Aina Šmid |  | Slovenia  |
The Mammals of Victoria | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Naughts | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Postcards from America | Elizabeth Gill, Chris Hoover, Steve McLean | James Lyons, Michael Tighe, Olmo Tighe | United States | [14]
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith | Ron Vawter, Anita Thacher, Jill Godmilow | Coco McPherson, Ron Vawter | United States | [15]
Sátántángo | Béla Tarr | Putyi Horváth, László Lugossy, Mihály Víg | Hungary  |
Seduction of a Cyborg | Lynn Hershman Leeson |  | United States  |
Vanya on 42nd Street | Louis Malle | Wallace Shawn, Larry Pine, Andre Gregory | United States | [16]
What She Wants | Ruth Lingford |  | United Kingdom  |
Why I Never Became a Dancer | Tracey Emin |  | United Kingdom  |
1995
Above the Lake | Dmitrii Frolov | Peter Kremis, Romil Rachev, Natalya Surkova  | Russia
A3 – Apatija, AIDS in Antarktika | Marina Gržinić, Aina Šmid |  | Slovenia
The 'b' Series | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Cremaster 1 | Matthew Barney |  | United States | [17]
Earthen Aerie | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
I... | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
I Take These Truths | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
If 6 was 9 | Eija-Liisa Ahtila |  | Finland  |
In Consideration of Pompeii | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December | Jean-Luc Godard |  | France  |
The Lost Films | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Lumière and Company | Various directors |  | France
Spain
Sweden | [18]
Neurosia: Fifty Years of Perversion | Rosa von Praunheim |  | Germany  |
Out of the Present | Andrei Ujică |  | Romania  |
Paranoia Corridor | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Sonic Outlaws | Craig Baldwin |  | United States | [19]
Spring Cycle | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Tokyo Fist | Shinya Tsukamoto | Shinya Tsukamoto, Kaori Fujii, Kohji Tsukamoto | Japan | [20]
We Hold These | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
1996
Beautiful Funerals | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Blue Value | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Breaking the Waves | Lars von Trier | Emily Watson | Denmark
Comingled Containers | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Concrescence | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Conspirators of Pleasure | Jan Švankmajer | Petr Meissel | Switzerland
United Kingdom
Czech Republic | [21]
Crash | David Cronenberg | James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger, Elias Koteas, Holly Hunter, Rosanna Arquette | Canada
United Kingdom  |
The Film of Her | Bill Morrison |  | United Kingdom  |
For Ever Mozart | Jean-Luc Godard | Madeleine Assas, Bérangère Allaux | Switzerland
France | [22]
The Fur of Home | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Gallivant | Andrew Kötting |  | United Kingdom  |
Georgetown Loop | Ken Jacobs |  | United States  |
Happy-End | Peter Tscherkassky |  | Austria  |
Hide and Seek | Su Friedrich |  | United States | [23]
Irma Vep | Olivier Assayas | Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud | France  |
Passagen | Lisl Ponger |  | Austria  |
The Pillow Book | Peter Greenaway | Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor, Yoshi Oida | United Kingdom
France
Netherlands | [24]
Polite Madness | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Prelude 1 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Prelude 2 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Prelude 3 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Prelude 4 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Prelude 5 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Prelude 6 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Prelude 7 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Prelude 8 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Prelude 9 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Prelude 10 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Prelude 11 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Prelude 12 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Prelude 13 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Prelude 14 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Prelude 15 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Prelude 16 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Prelude 17 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Prelude 18 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Prelude 19 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Prelude 20 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Prelude 21 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Prelude 22 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Prelude 23 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Prelude 24 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Sexual Saga | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Shockingly Hot | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Terminus for You | Nicolas Rey |  | France  |
Through Wounded Eyes | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Triste | Nathaniel Dorsky |  | United States |
Two Found Objects of Charles Boultenhouse | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Village of Dreams | Yōichi Higashi | Mieko Harada, Kaneko Iwasaki, Hosei Komatsu | Japan | [25]
1997
Astor Place | Eve Heller |  | United States  |
The Cat of the Worm's Green Realm | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Divertimento | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Film Ist. | Gustav Deutsch |  | Austria  |
Gummo | Harmony Korine | Jacob Reynolds, Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell | United States | [26]
How I Learned to Stop Worring and Love Ariel Sharon | Avi Mograbi |  | Israel  |
Last Hymn to the Night - Novalis | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Level Five | Chris Marker | Catherine Belkhodja | France  |
Lost Highway | David Lynch | Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty | United States | Surrealist film[27]
Mein Herz – niemandem! | Helma Sanders-Brahms | Lena Stolze, Thomas Ruffer, René Schubert | Germany | [28]
The Mirror | Jafar Panahi | Mina Mohammad Khani, Kadem Mojdehi | Iran | [29]
Post-socializem + Retroavantgarde + IRWIN | Marina Gržinić, Aina Šmid |  | Slovenia  |
Robinson in Space | Patrick Keiller | Paul Scofield | United Kingdom  |
Scars | James Herbert | Carter Davis, Alexandra Rosetti | United States | [30]
Self Song/Death Song | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Still Life | Harun Farocki |  | Germany  |
Story of I | Jo Ann Kaplan |  | United Kingdom  |
Today | Eija-Liisa Ahtila |  | Finland  |
Uncut | John Greyson | Matthew Ferguson, Michael Achtman, Damon D'Oliveira | Canada | [31]
Yggdrasill: Whose Roots Are Stars In The Human Mind | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
1998
... Reel Five | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
... Reel Four | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
... Reel One | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
... Reel Three | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
... Reel Two | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy | Martin Arnold |  | Austria  |
L'Arrivée | Peter Tscherkassky |  | Austria  |
Dandy Dust | Hans A. Scheirl | Hans Scheirl, Leonora Rogers-Wright, Suzie Krüger, Tres Trash Temperilli  | Austria  |
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Terry Gilliam | Johnny Depp, Benicio del Toro, Craig Bierko | United States | [32]
Female Mystique and Spare Leaves | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Festen | Thomas Vinterberg | Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Birthe Neumann, Paprika Steen | Denmark  |
Histoire(s) du cinéma | Jean-Luc Godard |  | France  |
His-story | Deimantas Narkevičius |  | Lithuania  |
The Idiots | Lars von Trier | Jens Albinus, Anne Louise Hassing, Bodil Jørgensen, Troels Lyby, Louise Meirtiz  | Denmark
Money, A Mythology of Darkness | Vassilis Mazomenos  |  | Greece
Pi | Darren Aronofsky | Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman | United States | [33]
Shulie | Elisabeth Subrin |  | United States  |
Troika | Jennifer Montgomery | Jenny Bass, Lev Shekhtman, Marina Shterenberg | United States | [34]
Variations | Nathaniel Dorsky |  | United States  |
1999
Alternating Currents | Stan Brakhage, Phil Solomon |  | United States |
Beau travail | Claire Denis | Denis Lavant, Michel Subor | France  |
The Birds of Paradise | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Cloud Chamber | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Consolation Service | Eija-Liisa Ahtila |  | Finland  |
Coupling | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Cremaster 5 | Matthew Barney | Norman Mailer, Matthew Barney, Lauren Pine | United States | [35]
Cricket Requiem | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Dancing with Hydra | Takuji Suzuki |  | Japan | [36]
The Dark Tower | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
E-CLIP-SE | Chris Marker |  | France  |
The Earthsong of the Cricket | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore | Mark Leckey |  | United Kingdom  |
Get Ready | Peter Tscherkassky |  | Austria  |
Julien Donkey-Boy | Harmony Korine | Ewen Bremner, Chloë Sevigny, Werner Herzog | United States | [37]
The Lion and the Zebra Make God's Raw Jewels | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Outer Space | Peter Tscherkassky |  | Austria  |
Persian Series #1 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Persian Series #2 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Persian Series #3 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Persian Series #4 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Persian Series #5 | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
See You in Hell, My Darling | Nikos Nikolaidis | Vicky Harris, Valeria Christodoulidou, Paschalis Tsarouhas | Greece |
Stately Mansions Did Decree | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |
Stereoscope | William Kentridge |  | South Africa  |
This Side of Paradise | Jonas Mekas |  | United States  |
Worm and Web Love | Stan Brakhage |  | United States |

## Notes[edit]

1. ^ Erickson, Hal. "Archangel". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 30, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
2. ^ Crow, Jonathan. "Tenamonya Connection". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 17, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
3. ^ Blaise, Judd. "Delicatessen". Allrovi. Archived from the original on June 15, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
4. ^ Dillard, Brian J. "Naked Lunch". Allrovi. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
5. ^ Voorhees, John. "Prospero's Books". Allrovi. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
6. ^ "Jidlo". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 18, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
7. ^ Voorhees, John. "Blue". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 18, 2012. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
8. ^ Erickson, Hal. "Careful". Allrovi. Archived from the original on October 19, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
9. ^ Deming, Mark. "Fran Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life". Allmovie. Archived from the original on January 16, 2013. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
10. ^ Fountain, Clarke. "Smoking/No Smoking". Allrovi. Archived from the original on October 7, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
11. ^ Brenner, Paul. "Wittgenstein". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 31, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
12. ^ "Black Ice". Allrovi. Archived from the original on March 7, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
13. ^ Brennan, Sandra. "Faust". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 2, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
14. ^ Brennan, Sandra. "Postcards from America". Allmovie. Archived from the original on January 16, 2013. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
15. ^ Brennan, Sandra. "Roy Cohn/Jack Smith". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 17, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
16. ^ Deming, Mark. "Vanya on 42nd Street". Allrovi. Archived from the original on September 26, 2011. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
17. ^ Hastings, Michael. "Cremaster 1". Allrovi. Archived from the original on June 16, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
18. ^ Tobey, Matthew. "Lumière and Company". Allrovi. Archived from the original on August 3, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
19. ^ Brennan, Sandra. "Sonic Outlaws". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 18, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
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22. ^ Schwartz, Louis. "For Ever Mozart". Allrovi. Archived from the original on June 1, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
23. ^ Ralske, Josh. "Hide and Seek". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 22, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
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36. ^ Crow, Jonathan. "Dancing with Hydra". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 19, 2012. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
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