List of avant-garde films of the 1990s

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

United Kingdom
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Title	Director	Cast	Country	Notes
1990
Absurd	John Maybury		United Kingdom
Archangel	Guy Maddin	Kyle McCulloch, Kathy Marykuca, Sarah Neville	Canada	[2]
Begotten	E. Elias Merhige	Brian Salzberg, Donna Dempsey, Stephen Charles Barry	United States	Experimental horror
Bilokacija	Marina Gržinić, Aina Šmid		Yugoslavia
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
How to Live in the German Federal Republic	Harun Farocki		West Germany
Moscow Portraits	Marina Gržinić, Aina Šmid		Yugoslavia
Singapore Sling	Nikos Nikolaidis	Meredyth Herold, Panos Thanassoulis, Michele Valley	Greece
Tenamonya Connection	Masashi Yamamoto	Reiko Arai	Japan Hong Kong	[3]
You Be Mother	Sarah Pucill		United Kingdom
1991
Delicatessen	Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet	Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus	France	Surrealist film[4]
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
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
Fatima's Letter	Alia Syed		United Kingdom
I am My Own Woman	Rosa von Praunheim	Charlotte von Mahlsdorf	Germany
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	[5]
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
Blue	Derek Jarman	John Quentin, Nigel Terry, Derek Jarman	United Kingdom	[6]
Careful	Guy Maddin	Kyle McCulloch, Gosia Dobrowolska, Sarah Neville	Canada	[7]
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	[8]
Gender Troublemakers	Xantha Philippa Mackay, Mirha-Soleil Ross		Canada
Passage à l'acte	Martin Arnold		Austria
Project Eleonara	Rühm T		Estonia
Smoking/No Smoking	Alain Resnais	Sabine Azéma, Pierre Arditi	France Italy	[9]
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
Wittgenstein	Derek Jarman	Karl Johnson, Michael Gough, Tilda Swinton	United Kingdom	[10]
1994
A.13 (short)	William Raban		United Kingdom
Black Ice	Stan Brakhage		United States	[11]
Faust	Jan Švankmajer	Petr Čepek	Czech Republic France United Kingdom Germany	[12]
London	Patrick Keiller	Paul Scofield	United Kingdom
Luna 10	Marina Gržinić, Aina Šmid		Slovenia
Postcards from America	Elizabeth Gill, Chris Hoover, Steve McLean	James Lyons, Michael Tighe, Olmo Tighe	United States	[13]
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith	Ron Vawter, Anita Thacher, Jill Godmilow	Coco McPherson, Ron Vawter	United States	[14]
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	[15]
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
Cremaster 1	Matthew Barney		United States	[16]
If 6 was 9	Eija-Liisa Ahtila		Finland
JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December	Jean-Luc Godard		France
Lumière and Company	Various directors		France Spain Sweden	[17]
Neurosia: FIfty Years of Perversion	Rosa von Praunheim		Germany
Out of the Present	Andrei Ujică		Romania
Sonic Outlaws	Craig Baldwin		United States	[18]
Tokyo Fist	Shinya Tsukamoto	Shinya Tsukamoto, Kaori Fujii, Kohji Tsukamoto	Japan	[19]
1996
Breaking the Waves	Lars von Trier	Emily Watson	Denmark
Conspirators of Pleasure	Jan Švankmajer	Petr Meissel	Switzerland United Kingdom Czech Republic	[20]
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	[21]
Gallivant	Andrew Kötting		United Kingdom
Georgetown Loop	Ken Jacobs		United States
Happy-End	Peter Tscherkassky		Austria
Hide and Seek	Su Friedrich		United States	[22]
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	[23]
Terminus for You	Nicolas Rey		France
Village of Dreams	Yōichi Higashi	Mieko Harada, Kaneko Iwasaki, Hosei Komatsu	Japan	[24]
1997
Astor Place	Eve Heller		United States
Film Ist.	Gustav Deutsch		Austria
Gummo	Harmony Korine	Jacob Reynolds, Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell	United States	[25]
How I Learned to Stop Worring and Love Ariel Sharon	Avi Mograbi		Israel
Level Five	Chris Marker	Catherine Belkhodja	France
Lost Highway	David Lynch	Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty	United States	Surrealist film[26]
Mein Herz – niemandem!	Helma Sanders-Brahms	Lena Stolze, Thomas Ruffer, René Schubert	Germany	[27]
The Mirror	Jafar Panahi	Mina Mohammad Khani, Kadem Mojdehi	Iran	[28]
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	[29]
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	[30]
1998
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	[31]
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	[32]
Shulie	Elisabeth Subrin		United States
Troika	Jennifer Montgomery	Jenny Bass, Lev Shekhtman, Marina Shterenberg	United States	[33]
1999
Beau travail	Claire Denis	Denis Lavant, Michel Subor	France
Consolation Service	Eija-Liisa Ahtila		Finland
Cremaster 5	Matthew Barney	Norman Mailer, Matthew Barney, Lauren Pine	United States	[34]
Dancing with Hydra	Takuji Suzuki		Japan	[35]
E-CLIP-SE	Chris Marker		France
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	[36]
Outer Space	Peter Tscherkassky		Austria
See You in Hell, My Darling	Nikos Nikolaidis	Vicky Harris, Valeria Christodoulidou, Paschalis Tsarouhas	Greece
Stereoscope	William Kentridge		South Africa
This Side of Paradise	Jonas Mekas		United States

Notes

Voorhees, John. "Prospero's Books". Allrovi. Archived from the original on June 16, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
Erickson, Hal. "Archangel". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 30, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
Crow, Jonathan. "Tenamonya Connection". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 17, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
Blaise, Judd. "Delicatessen". Allrovi. Archived from the original on June 15, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
"Jidlo". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 18, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
Voorhees, John. "Blue". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 18, 2012. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
Erickson, Hal. "Careful". Allrovi. Archived from the original on October 19, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
Deming, Mark. "Fran Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life". Allmovie. Archived from the original on January 16, 2013. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
Fountain, Clarke. "Smoking/No Smoking". Allrovi. Archived from the original on October 7, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
Brenner, Paul. "Wittgenstein". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 31, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
"Black Ice". Allrovi. Archived from the original on March 7, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
Brennan, Sandra. "Faust". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 2, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
Brennan, Sandra. "Postcards from America". Allmovie. Archived from the original on January 16, 2013. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
Brennan, Sandra. "Roy Cohn/Jack Smith". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 17, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
Deming, Mark. "Vanya on 42nd Street". Allrovi. Archived from the original on September 26, 2011. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
Hastings, Michael. "Cremaster 1". Allrovi. Archived from the original on June 16, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
Tobey, Matthew. "Lumière and Company". Allrovi. Archived from the original on August 3, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
Brennan, Sandra. "Sonic Outlaws". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 18, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
Crow, Jonathan. "Tokyo Fist". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 20, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
Crow, Jonathan. "Conspirators of Pleasure". Allrovi. Archived from the original on June 16, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
Schwartz, Louis. "For Ever Mozart". Allrovi. Archived from the original on June 1, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
Ralske, Josh. "Hide and Seek". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 22, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
Deming, Mark. "The Pillow Book". Allrovi. Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
Crow, Jonathan. "Village of Dreams". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 21, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
Dillard, Brian J. "Gummo". Allrovi. Archived from the original on August 11, 2011. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
Deming, Mark. "Lost Highway". Allrovi. Archived from the original on June 1, 2011. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
"My Heart Is Mine Alone (Sanders-Brahms)". Facets DVDs. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
Brennan, Sandra. "The Mirror". Allmovie. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
Stewart, Bhob. "Scars". Allrovi. Archived from the original on January 17, 2013. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
Brennan, Sandra. "Uncut". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 19, 2012. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
Olthuis, Andrew. "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". Allrovi. Archived from the original on September 4, 2011. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
Stewart, Bhob. "Pi". Allrovi. Archived from the original on June 16, 2011. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
Betzold, Michael. "Troika". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 17, 2012. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
Olthuis, Andrew. "Cremaster 5". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 17, 2012. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
Crow, Jonathan. "Dancing with Hydra". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 19, 2012. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
Deming, Mark. "Julien Donkey-Boy". Allrovi. Archived from the original on August 1, 2011. Retrieved July 2, 2011.

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[1] Voorhees, John. "Prospero's Books". Allrovi. Archived from the original on June 16, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2011.

[2] Erickson, Hal. "Archangel". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 30, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.

[3] Crow, Jonathan. "Tenamonya Connection". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 17, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.

[4] Blaise, Judd. "Delicatessen". Allrovi. Archived from the original on June 15, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2011.

[5] "Jidlo". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 18, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.

[6] Voorhees, John. "Blue". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 18, 2012. Retrieved July 2, 2011.

[7] Erickson, Hal. "Careful". Allrovi. Archived from the original on October 19, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2011.

[8] Deming, Mark. "Fran Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life". Allmovie. Archived from the original on January 16, 2013. Retrieved September 28, 2012.

[9] Fountain, Clarke. "Smoking/No Smoking". Allrovi. Archived from the original on October 7, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2011.

[10] Brenner, Paul. "Wittgenstein". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 31, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.

[11] "Black Ice". Allrovi. Archived from the original on March 7, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2011.

[12] Brennan, Sandra. "Faust". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 2, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.

[13] Brennan, Sandra. "Postcards from America". Allmovie. Archived from the original on January 16, 2013. Retrieved September 28, 2012.

[14] Brennan, Sandra. "Roy Cohn/Jack Smith". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 17, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.

[15] Deming, Mark. "Vanya on 42nd Street". Allrovi. Archived from the original on September 26, 2011. Retrieved July 2, 2011.

[16] Hastings, Michael. "Cremaster 1". Allrovi. Archived from the original on June 16, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2011.

[17] Tobey, Matthew. "Lumière and Company". Allrovi. Archived from the original on August 3, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2011.

[18] Brennan, Sandra. "Sonic Outlaws". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 18, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.

[19] Crow, Jonathan. "Tokyo Fist". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 20, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.

[20] Crow, Jonathan. "Conspirators of Pleasure". Allrovi. Archived from the original on June 16, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2011.

[21] Schwartz, Louis. "For Ever Mozart". Allrovi. Archived from the original on June 1, 2011. Retrieved July 1, 2011.

[22] Ralske, Josh. "Hide and Seek". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 22, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.

[23] Deming, Mark. "The Pillow Book". Allrovi. Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.

[24] Crow, Jonathan. "Village of Dreams". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 21, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2011.

[25] Dillard, Brian J. "Gummo". Allrovi. Archived from the original on August 11, 2011. Retrieved July 2, 2011.

[26] Deming, Mark. "Lost Highway". Allrovi. Archived from the original on June 1, 2011. Retrieved July 2, 2011.

[27] "My Heart Is Mine Alone (Sanders-Brahms)". Facets DVDs. Retrieved 2 January 2014.

[28] Brennan, Sandra. "The Mirror". Allmovie. Retrieved September 28, 2012.

[29] Stewart, Bhob. "Scars". Allrovi. Archived from the original on January 17, 2013. Retrieved July 2, 2011.

[30] Brennan, Sandra. "Uncut". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 19, 2012. Retrieved July 2, 2011.

[31] Olthuis, Andrew. "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". Allrovi. Archived from the original on September 4, 2011. Retrieved July 2, 2011.

[32] Stewart, Bhob. "Pi". Allrovi. Archived from the original on June 16, 2011. Retrieved July 2, 2011.

[33] Betzold, Michael. "Troika". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 17, 2012. Retrieved July 2, 2011.

[34] Olthuis, Andrew. "Cremaster 5". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 17, 2012. Retrieved July 2, 2011.

[35] Crow, Jonathan. "Dancing with Hydra". Allrovi. Archived from the original on July 19, 2012. Retrieved July 2, 2011.

[36] Deming, Mark. "Julien Donkey-Boy". Allrovi. Archived from the original on August 1, 2011. Retrieved July 2, 2011.