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This is a list of avant-garde and experimental films released in the 1950s. Unless noted, all films had sound and were in black and white.

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}}</ref> |- |Le mort du cerf |Dimitri Kirsanoff | |France | |- |A Treatise on Venom and Eternity||Isidore Isou||Isidore Isou||France||Lettrist film<ref name=":0" /> |- | colspan="5" Template:Year header style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9" | 1952 |- |L'anti-concept |Gil J. Wolman | |France |Lettrist film<ref name=":0" /> |- |Approaches and Leavetakings||Weldon Kees, Jurgen Ruesch|| ||United States||<ref name="Kees Kino program"/> |- |Bells of Atlantis |Ian Hugo | |- |Form Phases I||Robert Breer|| ||United States||Color, silent abstract animation.<ref name="hcl.harvard.edu">[1] Template:Webarchive Harvard Film Archive: Robert Breer, Kinetic Poet of the Avant-Garde</ref> |- |Hand-Mouth Coordination||Weldon Kees, Gregory Bateson|| ||United States||<ref name="Kees Kino program"/> |- |Hotel Apex||Weldon Kees|| ||United States||Study of the demolition of an old hotel<ref name="Kees Kino program"/> |- |Hurlements en faveur de Sade |Guy Debord | |France |Lettrist film |- |Interim||Stan Brakhage|| ||United States||Brakhage's first film, scored by James Tenney<ref name="Brakhage filmography">Brakhage filmography</ref> |- | colspan="5" Template:Year header style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9" | 1953 |- |The Boy and the Sea||Stan Brakhage|| ||United States||Silent, listed by Camper as "not available"<ref name="Brakhage filmography"/> |- |Color Cry||Len Lye|| ||United States||Color, Drawn-on-film animation, music by Sonny Terry<ref>[2]</ref> |- |Come Closer||Hy Hirsh|| ||United States||Color, abstract animation in 3-D<ref>CVM, Hy Hirsh CV</ref> |- |Eaux d'Artifice||Kenneth Anger||Carmilla Salvatorelli ||Italy||Color, added to the National Film Registry in 1993<ref>Electric Sheep; Interview with Kenneth Anger</ref> |- |The End||Christopher Maclaine|| ||United States||Early Beat generation film<ref>Bioskop entry</ref> |- |Eneri||Hy Hirsh|| ||United States||Abstract animation, color.<ref> CVM, Hirsh CV] </ref> |- |Form Phases II||Robert Breer|| ||United States||Color, silent abstract animation.<ref name="hcl.harvard.edu"/> |-

   |Mandala||Jordan Belson|| ||United States||Abstract animation, color<ref>

CVM Belson Filmography</ref>

|- |The Pleasure Garden |James Broughton |Lindsay Anderson, Hattie Jacques, John Le Mesurier |United Kingdom | |- |Statues Also Die |Chris Marker, Alain Resnais | |France | |- |Unglassed Windows Cast a Terrible Reflection||Stan Brakhage|| ||United States||Silent, listed by Camper as "not available"<ref name="Brakhage filmography"/> |- | colspan="5" Template:Year header style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9" | 1954 |- |Desistfilm||Stan Brakhage|| ||United States||<ref name="Brakhage filmography"/> |- |The Extraordinary Child||Stan Brakhage|| ||United States||Listed by Camper as "not available"<ref name="Brakhage filmography"/> |- |Form Phases IV||Robert Breer|| ||United States||Color, silent abstract animation.<ref name="hcl.harvard.edu"/> |-

|Gyromorphosis||Hy Hirsh|| ||Netherlands||Abstract animation<ref> CVM, Hy Hirsh CV</ref> |- |In Between||Stan Brakhage|| ||United States||Color, music by John Cage<ref name="Brakhage filmography"/> |- |Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome||Kenneth Anger||Samson de Brier, Anaïs Nin||United States||Color, edited into at least three distinct versions<ref>Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome’s Surreal Ritual</ref> |- |Un Miracle||Robert Breer, Pontus Hultén|| ||United States||Color, collage animation.<ref name="hcl.harvard.edu"/> |- |The Way to Shadow Garden||Stan Brakhage|| ||United States||<ref name="Brakhage filmography"/> |- | colspan="5" Template:Year header style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9" | 1955 |- |Atelier de Fernand Léger||Walerian Borowczyk|| ||Poland||Filmed at Fernand Léger's studio in Paris<ref name="Culture.pl Borowczyk profile"/> |- |Aviary||Joseph Cornell|| ||United States||Silent<ref name=sfcinematheque>Jeanne Liotta: Joseph Cornell Template:Webarchive</ref> |- |The Bridge||William Heick||Weldon Kees ||United States||Poetic study, based on Hart Crane<ref name="Kees Kino program"/> |- |Closed Vision |Marc'O. | |France |Lettrist film<ref name=":0" /> |- |Dementia, aka Daughter of Horror||John Parker||Adrienne Barrett, Bruno VeSota ||United States||Essentially silent psychological horror film, music by George Antheil<ref>"Yes! I am Here!"</ref> |- |Une femme coquette |Jean-Luc Godard |Maria Lysandre, Roland Tolma |France | |- |Haitian Film Footage||Maya Deren|| ||Haiti||Begun in 1947; later posthumously edited into The Divine Horsemen<ref>In the Mirror of Maya Deren presskit Template:Webarchive</ref> |- |Jesień (Autumn)||Walerian Borowczyk|| ||Poland||Animation<ref name="Culture.pl Borowczyk profile"/> |- |Joanne, Union Square||Joseph Cornell|| ||United States||Silent<ref name=sfcinematheque/> |- |Joanne, Xmas||Joseph Cornell|| ||United States||Silent<ref name=sfcinematheque/> |- |Mosaik im Vertrauen (Mosaic in Confidence)||Peter Kubelka|| ||Austria||Written by Ferry Radax<ref>Rotterdam Film Festival entry</ref> |- |A Portrait of Ga |Margaret Tait | |United Kingdom | |- |Reflections||Madeline Tourtelot|| ||United States||Color, two distinct versions<ref>The Flaherty Seminar, "The Flaherty Preservation Initiative"</ref> |- |Reflections on Black||Stan Brakhage|| ||United States||<ref name="Brakhage filmography"/> |- |Sunday in Peking |Chris Marker | |France | |- |The Very Eye of Night||Maya Deren|| ||United States||Dance film, choreographed by Antony Tudor<ref>In the Mirror of Maya Deren presskit Template:Webarchive</ref> |- |The Wonder Ring||Stan Brakhage|| ||United States||Color, silent<ref name="Brakhage filmography"/> |- |Żywe fotografie (Photographies Vivantes)||Walerian Borowczyk|| ||Poland||Animation<ref name="Culture.pl Borowczyk profile"/> |- | colspan="5" Template:Year header style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9" | 1956 |- |Centuries of June||Stan Brakhage, Joseph Cornell|| ||United States||Color, silent<ref name="Brakhage filmography"/> |- |Flesh of Morning||Stan Brakhage|| ||United States||Revised in 1986<ref name="Brakhage filmography"/> |- |Nightcats||Stan Brakhage|| ||United States||Color, silent<ref name="Brakhage filmography"/> |- |Recreation||Robert Breer||Noël Burch ||United States||Color, semi-abstract animation with narration.<ref name="hcl.harvard.edu"/> |- |Together||Lorenza Mazzetti, Denis Horne||Eduardo Paolozzi, Michael Andrews ||Template:Nowrap||Experimental semi-documentary<ref>BFI screenonline entry</ref> |- |Zone Moment||Stan Brakhage|| ||United States||Color, silent<ref name="Brakhage filmography"/> |- | colspan="5" Template:Year header style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9" | 1957 |- |8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements |Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, Hans Richter | |United States | |- |A to Z||Michael Snow|| ||Canada||"Blue and white" color, silent<ref>Austrian Film Museum: 1 Snow Sound and Silence</ref><ref>Canyon Cinema entry</ref><ref>CFMDC entry</ref> |- |Adebar||Peter Kubelka|| ||Austria||Early structural — or in Kubelka's terms, "metric" — film<ref>Kontraste Festival entry Template:Webarchive</ref> |- |Adventures of *||John Hubley, Faith Hubley|| ||United States||Color, music score by Benny Carter. Semi-abstract animation.<ref>MOMA entry</ref><ref>Jerry Beck, "Cartoons Considered for An Academy Award 1957," cartoonresearch.com [3]</ref> |- |Angel||Joseph Cornell|| ||United States||Color<ref name=sfcinematheque/> |- |Był sobie raz (Once Upon a Time)||Jan Lenica, Walerian Borowczyk|| ||Poland||Cut-out animation<ref name="Lenica profile at culture.pl">{{

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}}</ref> |- |Boy's Games||Joseph Cornell|| ||United States||Silent<ref name=sfcinematheque/> |- |Cappuccino||Joseph Cornell|| ||United States||<ref name=sfcinematheque/> |- |Children||Joseph Cornell|| ||United States||Silent<ref name=sfcinematheque/> |- |Cloche a Travers les Feuilles/Claude Debussy||Joseph Cornell|| ||United States||Revised version of Nymphlight<ref name=sfcinematheque/> |- |Daybreak and Whiteye||Stan Brakhage|| ||United States||<ref name="Brakhage filmography"/> |- |Dni Oświaty (Education Days)||Jan Lenica, Walerian Borowczyk|| ||Poland||Animation<ref name="Culture.pl Borowczyk profile"/> |- |A Fable for Fountains||Joseph Cornell, Rudolph Buckhardt|| ||United States||Begun in 1955; revised as "A Legend for Fountains" in 1965<ref name=sfcinematheque/> |- |Glimpse of the Garden||Marie Menken|| ||United States||Selected for addition to the National Film Registry in 2007<ref>The Plant Journal</ref> |- |Nagrodzone uczucia (Requited Sentiments)||Jan Lenica, Walerian Borowczyk|| ||Poland||Animation<ref name="Lenica profile at culture.pl"/> |- |Jamestown Baloos||Robert Breer|| ||United States||Color, semi-abstract combination of animation and live action.<ref name="hcl.harvard.edu"/> |- |Loving||Stan Brakhage||Carolee Schneemann, James Tenney||United States||Color, silent<ref name="Brakhage filmography"/> |- |Strep-tease (Striptease)||Jan Lenica, Walerian Borowczyk|| ||Poland||Animation<ref name="Lenica profile at culture.pl"/> |- |A Man and His Dog Out for Air||Robert Breer|| ||United States||Abstract animation, shown with Last Year at Marienbad in its first New York run.<ref name="hcl.harvard.edu"/> |- |The Man Who Invented Gold||Christopher Maclaine|| ||United States||Partly filmed by Jordan Belson<ref name="Fred Camper essay">Fred Camper essay</ref> |- |Nymphlight||Joseph Cornell|| ||United States||Color<ref name=sfcinematheque/> |- | colspan="5" Template:Year header style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9" | 1958 |- |Anticipation of the Night||Stan Brakhage|| ||United States||<ref>Chicago Reader article</ref> |- |Beat||Christopher Maclaine|| ||United States||<ref name="Fred Camper essay"/> |- |Défense d'afficher||Hy Hirsh|| ||France||Color<ref> CVM, Hy Hirsh CV</ref> |- |Dom (House)||Jan Lenica, Walerian Borowczyk|| ||Poland||Animation; Winner of 1958 Belgium International Experimental Film Competition<ref name="Lenica profile at culture.pl"/> |- |Free Radicals |Len Lye | |United Kingdom | |- |Une histoire d'eau||Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut||Caroline Dim, Jean-Claude Brialy ||France||Semi-improvised, proto-Nouvelle vague short<ref>notcoming.com entry</ref> |- |A Movie||Bruce Conner|| ||United States||Iconic collage film.<ref>[4] A.V. Club, "Bruce Conner: The Art of Montage" review</ref> |- |Schwechater||Peter Kubelka|| ||Austria||"Metric" beer commercial<ref>BeerVlog entry</ref> |- |Szkoła (School)||Jan Lenica, Walerian Borowczyk|| ||Poland||Animated photographs<ref name="Culture.pl Borowczyk profile"/> |- |Spatiodynamisme||Tinto Brass, Nicolas Schöffer|| ||France||Color, silent. A visual document of Schöffer's CYSP-1, the first cybernetic sculpture.<ref>Letterboxd.com entry</ref> |- |Sztandar młodych (Banner of Youth)||Jan Lenica, Walerian Borowczyk|| ||Poland||Animation<ref name="Lenica profile at culture.pl"/> |- | colspan="5" Template:Year header style="text-align:left; background:#e9e9e9" | 1959 |- |Les astronautes||Walerian Borowczyk, Chris Marker|| ||France||Animated<ref name="Culture.pl Borowczyk profile"/> |- |Chasse des Touches||Hy Hirsh|| ||France||Abstract animation<ref> CVM, Hy Hirsh CV</ref> |- |Cat's Cradle||Stan Brakhage|| ||United States||Color, silent<ref name="Brakhage filmography"/> |- |Diary of an Unknown Soldier |Peter Watkins | |United Kingdom | |- |Eyewash||Robert Breer|| ||United States||Color, silent mixture of abstract animation and live action; exists in two versions.<ref name="hcl.harvard.edu"/> |- |Hiroshima mon amour |Alain Resnais |Eiji Okada, Emmanuelle Riva |France |Written by Marguerite Duras |- |Monsieur Tête||Jan Lenica|| ||France||Animation<ref name="Lenica profile at culture.pl"/> |- |Odds and Ends |Jane Conger Shimane Belson | |United States | |- |Pull My Daisy||Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie||Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso ||United States||Beat Generation film, written by Jack Kerouac<ref>Photo Eye-Magazine, "Is Pull My Daisy Holy? by John Cohen</ref> |- |The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film |Richard Lester | |United Kingdom | |- |Scotch Hop||Christopher Maclaine|| ||United States||<ref name="Fred Camper essay"/> |- |Season of Strangers||Maya Deren|| ||United States||Unfinished; made as part of Haiku Film Project at Woodstock<ref>In the Mirror of Maya Deren presskit Template:Webarchive</ref> |- |Shadows |John Cassavetes |Ben Carruthers, Lelia Goldoni, Hugh Hurd |United States | |- |Sirius Remembered||Stan Brakhage|| ||United States||Color, silent<ref name="Brakhage filmography"/> |- |Wedlock House: An Intercourse||Stan Brakhage|| ||United States||Silent<ref name="Brakhage filmography"/> |- |Window Water Baby Moving||Stan Brakhage|| ||United States||Color, silent<ref name="Brakhage filmography"/> |- |}