List of avant-garde films of the 2020s
Appearance
This is a list of avant-garde and experimental films released in the 2020s.
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Notes | Ref. | |
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2020 | ||||||
KRABI, 2562 | Ben Rivers, Anocha Suwichakornpong | UK | ||||
Look Then Bellow | Ben Rivers | UK | ||||
Friend of the World | Brian Patrick Butler | Nick Young, Alexandra Slade, Michael C. Burgess, Kathryn Schott, Kevin Smith, Luke Pensabene, Neil Raymond Ricco | US | [1] | ||
A Metamorfose dos Pássaros | Catarina Vasconcelos | Portugal | [2] | |||
Movie That Invites Pausing | Ken Jacobs | US | [3] | |||
Red Moon Tide | Lois Patiño | Spain | [4] | |||
The Whole Shebang | Ken Jacobs | US | [5] | |||
The Eyes of Summer | Rajee Samarasinghe | Shalani Dilasha, Malka Malshani, Lanka Rajapaksa | Sri Lanka / USA | [6] | ||
2021 | ||||||
2020 | Friedl vom Grölle | Austria | [7] | |||
An Approximation of their Barbarous Manners | Christian Serritiello | Italy | ||||
Citadel | John Smith | United Kingdom | [8] | |||
Devil's Peak | Simon Lu | Hong Kong | ||||
Double Wow | Ken Jacobs | US | [9] | |||
earthearthearth | Daïchi Saïto | Canada/Japan | [10] | |||
Ember Days | Nathaniel Dorsky | US | [11] | |||
Emergence Collapse | Rainer Kohlberger | Austria | ||||
Er is een geest van mij / Hay un fantasma mío | Mateo Vega | Netherlands/Peru | [12] | |||
Fictions | Manuela de Laborde | Mexico | ||||
Flowers blooming in our throats | Eva Giolo | Italy | [13] | |||
Four Roads | Alice Rohrwacher | Italy | ||||
Hold Me Tight | Mélanie Robert-Tourneur | Belgium/France | ||||
Inner Outer Space | Laida Lertxundi | Spain | [14] | |||
Just Beyond the Trees | Connor Murphy | [15] | ||||
Light Cemetery | Jonah Mills | US | ||||
Light Trap | Pablo Marín | Argentina | ||||
Light Years | Jonah Mills | US | ||||
Mad God | Phil Tippett | US | [16] | |||
Manifestarsi | Gianmarco Donaggio | Italy | [17] | |||
Merapi | Malena Szlam | Chile | ||||
Milano di Carta | Gianmarco Donaggio | Italy | [18] | |||
Parenthesis | Vasilios Papaioannu | Greece/Italy/US | ||||
Petrov's Flu | Kirill Serebrennikov | Ivan Dorn, Chulpan Khamatova | Russia | [19] | ||
Phosphenes | Andre de Nervaux | UK | ||||
Polycephaly in D | Michael Robinson | Trisha Paytas | US | |||
Quarantine | Diana Ringo | Anatoly Bely, Aleksandr Obmanov | Finland, Russia | [20][21] | ||
R and J | Carey Williams | David Zayas, María Gabriela de Faría | US | [22] | ||
Rock Bottom Riser | Fern Silva | US | [23] | |||
School Radio to Major Tom | Chisaka Takuya | Japan | ||||
SON CHANT | Vivian Ostrovsky | Chantal Akerman, Sonia Wieder-Atherton | US | |||
Spencer | Pablo Larrain | Kirsten Stewart, Timothy Spall, Jack Farthing | US, UK | [24] | ||
Terce | Nathaniel Dorsky | US | ||||
That Was When I Thought I Could Hear You | Matt Whitman | US | ||||
Time Flows in Strange Ways on Sundays | Giselle Lin | Peter Yu, Wendy Toh, Iris Li | Singapore | |||
Titane | Julia Ducournau | Vincent Lindon, Agathe Rousselle | France | [25] | ||
Tonalli | Los Ingrávidos | Mexico | ||||
Train Again | Peter Tscherkassky | Austria | ||||
Transparents, I am. | Yuri Muraoka | Yuri Muraoka, Nonoho Suzuki, Hana Suzuki | Japan | |||
Vortex | Gaspar Noé | Dario Argento, Françoise Lebrun, Alex Lutz | France/Belgium/Morocco | [26] | ||
Water from The Tremulous Stream | Javiera Cisterna | Chile | ||||
What is it that you said? | Shun Ikezoe | Eric Saito | Japan | |||
When Light is Displaced | Zaina Bseiso | Alaa Bseiso | Palestine | |||
Worlds | Isaac Goes | Canada/US | ||||
Show me Other Places | Rajee Samarasinghe | Sri Lanka / USA | [27] | |||
2022 | ||||||
Agnès Varda - Pier Paolo Pasolini - New York - 1967 | Agnès Varda | Agnès Varda, Pier Paolo Pasolini | France | |||
THE HOUSE WAS QUIET | Ben Rivers | UK | ||||
Attic Windows of the Infinite | Sapphire Rachael Goss | United Kingdom/Italy | [28] | |||
Azul no Azul | Gianmarco Donaggio | Portugal | [29] | |||
Buster Keaton Embossed | Ken Jacobs | US | ||||
After Work | Ben Rivers, Céline Condorelli | UK | ||||
Counterfeit Poasts | Jon Rafman | Canada | ||||
Crimes of the Future | David Cronenberg | Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Stewart | US | |||
The Demands of Ordinary Devotion | Eva Giolo | Italy/Belgium | [30] | |||
Epistolary Kisses | Itamar A.C. | |||||
Fairytale | Alexander Sokurov | Russia | ||||
Fata Morgana | Tacita Dean | US | [31] | |||
Festina Lente | Baya Medhaffar | Tunisia/France | ||||
Herbaria | Leandro Listorti | Germany/Argentina | ||||
Interval | Nathaniel Dorsky | US | ||||
Lake Forest Park | Kersti Jan Werdal | US | ||||
Light Oneiric | Maren Pan, Sy Brand | United Kingdom | ||||
Lights, Like Angels, Flying | Joshua Peinado | Rodny Aquino | US | |||
Morvan | Scott Hammen | US | [32] | |||
A Moth Orchid Flies at Night | Maren Pan, Sy Brand | United Kingdom | ||||
Naos | Nathaniel Dorsky | US | ||||
Pigment-Dispersion Syndrome | Jennifer Reeves | US | ||||
Sea Series 23 | John Price | Canada | [33] | |||
Softly, the current may bend our bodies | Maren Pan, Sy Brand | United Kingdom/Italy | ||||
The song nobody knows | Rainer Kohlberger | Austria | ||||
The Sparrow Dream | Robert Beavers | Ute Aurand | Germany/USA | [34] | ||
Tchaikovsky's Wife | Kirill Serebrennikov | Alyona Mikhaylova, Odin Biron | Russia | |||
The Tomb of Kafka | Jean-Claude Rousseau | Jean-Claude Rousseau | France | [35] | ||
ULTRADREAM | Guillaume Vallée | Canada | ||||
Umbra | Daniela Muñoz Barroso | Cuba | [36] | |||
Welcome | Jean-Claude Rousseau | France | [37] | |||
XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX | Ken Jacobs | US | ||||
Xilma-xil | Itamar A.C. | |||||
W | Anna Eriksson | Anna Eriksson, Parco Lee | Finland | |||
Mangosteen | Tulapop Saenjaroen | Thailand | [38] | |||
Visão do Paraíso | Leonardo Pirondi | David OReilly, Douglas Goodwin, Jackson Fletcher, Dan Dixon | Brazil / USA / UK | [39] | ||
Strangers | Rajee Samarasinghe | Sri Lanka / USA | [40] | |||
Bold Eagle | Whammy Alcazaren | Philippines | [41] | |||
2023 | ||||||
1984 | Diana Ringo | Finland, Russia | ||||
Lotus-Eyed Girl | Rajee Samarasinghe | Sri Lanka / United States | [42] | |||
Coral | Sonia Oleniak | USA / Poland | [43] | |||
Dildotectonica | Tomás Paula Marques | Portugal | [43] | |||
and so it came about (A Tale of Consequential Dormancy) | Charlotte Pryce | USA | [43] | |||
Nocturne for a Forest | Catarina Vasconcelos | Portugal | [43] | |||
The Rays of a Storm | Julio Hernández Cordón | Mexico | [43] | |||
Borrowing a Family Album | Tamer El Said | Egypt | [44] | |||
Distortion | Frederick C.G. Borromeo | Philippines | [45] | |||
In Visible Light | Gianmarco Donaggio | Norway/Italy | Performative Film | [46] | ||
In Praise of Slowness | Hicham Gardaf | Khalid Mousmi, Abdellah Ben Messaoud, Fatima Benabbou | United Kingdom / Italy | [47] | ||
Myanmar Anatomy | Prapat Jiwarangsan | United Arab Emirates / Thailand | Installation Film | [48] | ||
yours, | Eva Giolo, Rebecca Jane Arthur, Katja Mater, Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Eitan Efrat, Maaike Neuville | Belgium | [49] | |||
Death Mask | John Greyson | Kong Kie Njo, Spencer Britten, Jera Wolfe | Canada | [50] | ||
Giant's Kettle | Markku Hakala, Mari Käki | Finland | ||||
Ijen, London | Ben Rivers | UK | ||||
When We Encounter The World | Leonardo Pirondi & Zazie Ray-Trapido | Portugal / USA | [51] | |||
Shrooms | Jorge Jácome | Portugal | [52] | |||
Last Things | Deborah Stratman | Valérie Massadian, Marcia Bjørnerud | France / USA / Portugal | [53] | ||
Laika | Deborah Stratman | USA | [54] | |||
The Wool Aliens | Julia Parks | UK | ||||
Holographic Will | Mike Stoltz | USA | ||||
Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke | Nishikawa Tomonari | Japan | ||||
Dau:añcut (Moving Along Image) | Adam Piron | Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma | ||||
Nearest Neighbor | Rebecca Baron, Douglas Goodwin | USA | [55][56] | |||
The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer | Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller | UK | [57][58] | ||
Sermon to the Birds | Hilal Baydarov | Huseyn Nasirov, Rana Asgarova, Orkhan Iskandarli | Azerbaijan | [59] | ||
2024 | ||||||
Potenciais à Deriva | Leonardo Pirondi | Brazil / USA | [60] | |||
Pepe | Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias | Jhon Narváez, Sor María Ríos, Fareed Matjila, Harmony Ahalwa, Jorge Puntillón García | Dominican Republic / Namibia / Germany / France | [61] | ||
Direct Action | Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell | Germany / France | [62] | |||
Materia vibrante | Pablo Marín | Argentina | ||||
Barrunto | Emilia Beatriz | Shanti Lalita, Harry Josephine Giles, Alicia Matthews, Ángela Ginorio | United Kingdom / Puerto Rico | [63] | ||
Nanacatepec | Elena Pardo, Azucena Losana | Mexico / Spain | Performative Film | [64] | ||
Remote Occlusions | Utkarsh | India / USA | [65] | |||
Quebrante | Janaina Wagner | Brazil | [66] | |||
Sarcophagus of Drunken Loves | Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige | France / Lebanon | [67] | |||
I Would Rather Be a Stone | Ana Hušman | Croatia | ||||
O Seeker | Gavati Wad | with Varun Sahni | USA / India | [68] | |||
Um tropeço em cinco movimentos | Valentina Rosset | Brazil | ||||
Eno | Gary Hustwit | UK / USA | [69] | |||
Being (the Digital Griot) | Rashaad Newsome | USA | AI - Film | [70] | ||
Detours while speaking of monsters | Deniz Şimşek | Germany / Turkey | [71] | |||
Grandmamauntsistercat | Zuza Banasińska | Netherlands / Poland | [72] | |||
The Instability of Clouds | Zazie Ray-Trapido | USA | [73] | |||
Terminal Island | Sam Drake | USA | [74] | |||
History Is Written at Night | Alejandro Alonso Estrella | Teresita Estrella Careaga | Cuba / France | [75] | ||
Crazy Lotus | Naween Noppakun | Surat Kaewseekram, Phemsinee Sawangkla, Gorrawiya Aphipobthitikorn, Thongchai Pimapunsri | Thailand | [76] | ||
Digital Devil Saga | Cameron Worden | USA | [77] | |||
Break no.1 & Break no.2. | Lei Lei | China | [78] | |||
My Want of You Partakes of Me | Beny Wagner & Sasha Litvintseva | UK/Netherlands | [79] | |||
Single File | Simon Liu | Italy/USA/UK/Hong Kong | [79] | |||
Invisible People | Alisa Berger | France / Germany | [80] | |||
Appearances | Nicolás Onischuk | Argentina | [81] |
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