Outsider Cinema

Films

157 films, from 1921 to 2024, in the order they were made.

1920s

  1. Lichtspiel Opus 11921Walter Ruttmann10 min
  2. Rhythmus 211921Hans Richter3 min
  3. The Smiling Madame Beudet1923Germaine Dulac38 min
  4. Symphonie Diagonale1924Viking Eggeling7 min
  5. Opus IV1925Walter Ruttmann4 min
  6. Filmstudie1926Hans Richter4 min
  7. Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis1927Walter Ruttmann1 hr 5 min
  8. Ghosts Before Breakfast1928Hans Richter9 min
  9. The Seashell and the Clergyman1928Germaine Dulac40 min
  10. Theme and Variations1928Germaine Dulac9 min
  11. Tusalava1929Len Lye10 min
  12. Un Chien Andalou1929Luis Buñuel21 min

1930s

  1. L'Âge d'Or1930Luis Buñuel1 hr 3 min
  2. Las Hurdes1933Luis Buñuel27 min
  3. Rhythm in Light1934Mary Ellen Bute5 min
  4. A Colour Box1935Len Lye4 min
  5. Allegretto1936Oskar Fischinger3 min
  6. Rainbow Dance1936Len Lye5 min
  7. An Optical Poem1938Oskar Fischinger7 min
  8. Spook Sport1939Mary Ellen Bute8 min

1940s

  1. Meshes of the Afternoon1943Maya Deren14 min
  2. At Land1944Maya Deren15 min
  3. A Study in Choreography for Camera1945Maya Deren3 min
  4. Ritual in Transfigured Time1946Maya Deren15 min
  5. Dreams That Money Can Buy1947Hans Richter1 hr 39 min
  6. Fireworks1947Kenneth Anger15 min
  7. Motion Painting No. 11947Oskar Fischinger11 min
  8. Begone Dull Care1949Norman McLaren8 min

1950s

  1. Abstronic1952Mary Ellen Bute7 min
  2. Neighbours1952Norman McLaren8 min
  3. Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome1954Kenneth Anger38 min
  4. Glimpse of the Garden1957Marie Menken5 min
  5. A Movie1958Bruce Conner12 min
  6. Free Radicals1958Len Lye5 min
  7. Window Water Baby Moving1959Stan Brakhage12 min

1960s

  1. I Was a Teenage Rumpot1960The Kuchars10 min
  2. Arabesque for Kenneth Anger1961Marie Menken4 min
  3. Cosmic Ray1961Bruce Conner4 min
  4. Very Nice, Very Nice1961Arthur Lipsett7 min
  5. Thanatopsis1962Ed Emshwiller5 min
  6. The Exterminating Angel1962Luis Buñuel1 hr 35 min
  7. 21-871963Arthur Lipsett10 min
  8. Flaming Creatures1963Jack Smith43 min
  9. Mothlight1963Stan Brakhage4 min
  10. Normal Love1963Jack Smith2 hr
  11. Scorpio Rising1963Kenneth Anger28 min
  12. Something Different1963Věra Chytilová1 hr 21 min
  13. Totem1963Ed Emshwiller16 min
  14. Dog Star Man1964Stan Brakhage1 hr 15 min
  15. Free Fall1964Arthur Lipsett9 min
  16. Go! Go! Go!1964Marie Menken12 min
  17. A Trip Down Memory Lane1965Arthur Lipsett13 min
  18. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors1965Sergei Parajanov1 hr 37 min
  19. Sins of the Fleshapoids1965Mike Kuchar43 min
  20. Daisies1966Věra Chytilová1 hr 16 min
  21. Hold Me While I'm Naked1966George Kuchar16 min
  22. Ray Gun Virus1966Paul Sharits14 min
  23. Relativity1966Ed Emshwiller38 min
  24. The Flicker1966Tony Conrad30 min
  25. 73621967Pat O'Neill10 min
  26. No President1967Jack Smith45 min
  27. Passages from Finnegans Wake1967Mary Ellen Bute1 hr 32 min
  28. Report1967Bruce Conner13 min
  29. Contras' City1968Djibril Diop Mambéty21 min
  30. For the Damaged Right Eye1968Toshio Matsumoto13 min
  31. N:O:T:H:I:N:G1968Paul Sharits36 min
  32. Pas de deux1968Norman McLaren13 min
  33. T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G1968Paul Sharits12 min
  34. Funeral Parade of Roses1969Toshio Matsumoto1 hr 45 min
  35. The Color of Pomegranates1969Sergei Parajanov1 hr 18 min
  36. Walden1969Jonas Mekas3 hr

1970s

  1. Fruit of Paradise1970Věra Chytilová1 hr 39 min
  2. Straight and Narrow1970Tony Conrad10 min
  3. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One1971William Greaves1 hr 15 min
  4. Synchromy1971Norman McLaren7 min
  5. The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes1971Stan Brakhage32 min
  6. Hotel Monterey1972Chantal Akerman1 hr 3 min
  7. Lucifer Rising1972Kenneth Anger28 min
  8. Nationtime1972William Greaves1 hr 20 min
  9. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania1972Jonas Mekas1 hr 22 min
  10. Touki Bouki1973Djibril Diop Mambéty1 hr 30 min
  11. Dyketactics1974Barbara Hammer4 min
  12. Film Feedback1974Tony Conrad15 min
  13. Je, tu, il, elle1974Chantal Akerman1 hr 26 min
  14. Saugus Series1974Pat O'Neill19 min
  15. Ātman1975Toshio Matsumoto11 min
  16. Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles1975Chantal Akerman3 hr 21 min
  17. Crossroads1976Bruce Conner36 min
  18. Epileptic Seizure Comparison1976Paul Sharits30 min
  19. News from Home1977Chantal Akerman1 hr 25 min
  20. Sunstone1979Ed Emshwiller3 min

1980s

  1. Nocturne1980Phil Solomon10 min
  2. Beneath the Skin1981Cecelia Condit12 min
  3. Spacy1981Takashi Ito10 min
  4. Dimensions of Dialogue1982Jan Švankmajer12 min
  5. Thunder1982Takashi Ito5 min
  6. Possibly in Michigan1983Cecelia Condit12 min
  7. Ghost1984Takashi Ito6 min
  8. Not a Jealous Bone1987Cecelia Condit10 min
  9. Alice1988Jan Švankmajer1 hr 26 min
  10. The Secret Garden1988Phil Solomon23 min
  11. Remains to Be Seen1989Phil Solomon18 min
  12. Water and Power1989Pat O'Neill57 min

1990s

  1. Hyenas1992Djibril Diop Mambéty1 hr 50 min
  2. Nitrate Kisses1992Barbara Hammer1 hr 7 min
  3. Cremaster 41994Matthew Barney42 min
  4. Tender Fictions1995Barbara Hammer58 min
  5. Zone1995Takashi Ito13 min
  6. Conspirators of Pleasure1996Jan Švankmajer1 hr 15 min
  7. The Fetishist1997Jim Trainor38 min
  8. The Bats1998Jim Trainor8 min
  9. Cremaster 21999Matthew Barney1 hr 19 min
  10. The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun1999Djibril Diop Mambéty45 min
  11. Touch Me in the Morning1999Giuseppe Andrews1 hr 20 min
  12. Twilight Psalm II: Walking Distance1999Phil Solomon23 min

2000s

  1. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty2000Jonas Mekas4 hr 48 min
  2. Little Otik2000Jan Švankmajer2 hr 12 min
  3. Rejected2000Don Hertzfeldt9 min
  4. The Moschops2000Jim Trainor13 min
  5. Cremaster 32002Matthew Barney3 hr 2 min
  6. The Decay of Fiction2002Pat O'Neill1 hr 14 min
  7. The Magic Kingdom2002Jim Trainor7 min
  8. Trailer Town2003Giuseppe Andrews1 hr 20 min
  9. Drawing Restraint 92005Matthew Barney2 hr 15 min
  10. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2½2005William Greaves1 hr 39 min
  11. This Is My Land2006Ben Rivers14 min
  12. Garbanzo Gas2007Giuseppe Andrews1 hr 15 min
  13. Oh, Rapunzel2008Cecelia Condit24 min
  14. Yard Work Is Hard Work2008Jodie Mack27 min

2010s

  1. Two Years at Sea2011Ben Rivers1 hr 28 min
  2. It's Such a Beautiful Day2012Don Hertzfeldt1 hr 2 min
  3. A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness2013Ben Rivers and Ben Russell1 hr 38 min
  4. brouillard #152013Alexandre Larose10 min
  5. brouillard – passage #142013Alexandre Larose10 min
  6. Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project2013Jodie Mack41 min
  7. New Fancy Foils2013Jodie Mack12 min
  8. The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers2015Ben Rivers1 hr 38 min
  9. Weather Service2015Kris Straub3 min
  10. World of Tomorrow2015Don Hertzfeldt16 min
  11. Contingency2016Kris Straub3 min
  12. Hinterlands2016Scott Barley7 min
  13. The Illinois Parables2016Deborah Stratman1 hr
  14. Sleep Has Her House2017Scott Barley1 hr 30 min
  15. Womb2017Scott Barley17 min
  16. Optimism2018Deborah Stratman15 min
  17. Show for Children2018Kris Straub3 min
  18. The Grand Bizarre2018Jodie Mack1 hr 1 min
  19. Skywatching2019Kris Straub4 min
  20. Vever (for Barbara)2019Deborah Stratman12 min

2020s

  1. Heck2020Kyle Edward Ball29 min
  2. Wasteland No. 3: Moons, Sons2021Jodie Mack5 min
  3. CLOSE2022Kris Straub30 min
  4. scènes de ménage: I.2022Alexandre Larose15 min
  5. Skinamarink2022Kyle Edward Ball1 hr 40 min
  6. Last Things2023Deborah Stratman50 min
  7. Bogancloch2024Ben Rivers1 hr 25 min
  8. Night Walk2024Kris Straub3 min