List of avant-garde films of the 2000s

This is a list of avant-garde and experimental films released in the 2000s.

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Notes
2000
And the Pig was Born	Julius Ziz		Lithuania
Appearances	Barbara Meter		Netherlands
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty	Jonas Mekas		United States
Dancer in the Dark	Lars von Trier	Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Joel Grey	Denmark
Energy Lithuania	Deimantas Narkevičius		Lithuania
The Heart of the World	Guy Maddin	Leslie Bais, Caelum Vatnsdal, Shaun Balbar	Canada	[1]
Kimono	Hal Hartley	Miho Nikaido	United States	[2]
Little Otik	Jan Švankmajer	Jan Hartl, Veronika Zilkova	Czech Republic United Kingdom	[3]
Mysterious Object at Noon	Apichatpong Weerasethakul		Thailand	[4]
Songs from the Second Floor	Roy Andersson	Sten Andersson, Bengt C.W. Carlsson, Torbjörn Fahlström, Stefan Larsson, Lars Nordh	Sweden
A Story about a Bad Dream	Pavel Stingl		Czech Republic
Werckmeister Harmonies	Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky	Peter Fitz, Lars Rudolph, Hanna Schygulla	Hungary
2001
386 DX	Alexei Shulgin		Russia
The Battle of Orgreave	Jeremy Deller		United Kingdom
Dream Work	Peter Tscherkassky		Austria
Her Glacial Speed	Eve Heller		Austria
A Memory of the Players in a Mirror at Midnight	Constanze Ruhm		Austria
Mulholland Dr.	David Lynch	Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring	United States	[5]
Pistol Opera	Seijun Suzuki	Makiko Esumi	Japan
Les Soviets plus l'électricité	Nicolas Rey		France
Southlander	Steven Hanft	Rory Cochrane, Rossie Harris, Lawrence Hilton Jacobs	United States	[6]
Waking Life	Richard Linklater	Wiley Wiggins, Lorelei Linklater, Trevor Jack Brooks	United States	[7]
2002
11'09"01 September 11	Various		France	[8]
Blissfully Yours	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	Miho Nikaido, D.J. Mendel, Lisa Walter	France Thailand	[9]
Claire	Milford Thomas	Toniet Gallego, Mish P. DeLight, James Ferguson	United States	[10]
The Cloud of Unknowing	Richard Sylvarnes	Miho Nikaido, D.J. Mendel, Lisa Walter	United States	[11]
*Corpus Callosum	Michael Snow	Kim Plate, Greg Hermanovic, John Massey	Canada	[12]
Decasia	Bill Morrison		United States	[13]
The Decay of Fiction	Pat O'Neill	Various	United States	[14]
Gerry	Gus Van Sant	Casey Affleck, Matt Damon	United States	[15]
I-San Special	Mingmongkol Sonakul	Mesini Kaewratri, Phurida Vichitphan	Thailand
The Loser Takes It All	Nikos Nikolaidis	Giannis Aggelakas, Simeon Nikolaidis, Jenny Kitseli	Greece
Meanwhile a Butterfly Flies	Julius Ziz		Lithuania
Naqoyqatsi	Godfrey Reggio		United States	[16]
Nikita Kino	Vivan Ostrovsky		United States
Russian Ark	Alexander Sokurov	Sergei Dreiden, Maria Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy	Russia Canada Denmark Germany	[17]
Ten	Abbas Kiarostami	Mania Akbari, Amin Maher	Iran	[18]
The Tracker	Rolf de Heer	David Gulpilil, Gary Sweet, Damon Gameau	Australia	[19]
Uzak	Nuri Bilge Ceylan		Turkey
2003
Alice in Wonderland, or: Who is Guy Debord?	Robert Cauble		United States
Alila	Amos Gitai	Yael Abecassis, Ronit Elkabetz, Hanna Laslo, Uri Klauzner	Israel
Bengali Tourist	Sarnath Banerjee		India
Bodysong	Simon Pummell		United Kingdom	[20]
Cowards Bend the Knee	Guy Maddin	Darcy Fehr, Melissa Dionisio, Amy Stewart	Canada	[21]
Dogville	Lars von Trier	Nicole Kidman, John Hurt, Paul Bettany	Denmark	[22]
The Five Obstructions	Lars von Trier, Jørgen Leth	Lars von Trier, Jørgen Leth, Claus Nissen	Denmark
I Love My India	Tejal Shah		India
The Mesmerist	Bill Morrison		United States
The Missing	Lee Kang-Sheng	Lu Yi-ching, Chang Chea, Miao Tien	Taiwan	[23]
Parc central	Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster		France
Quay	Barbara Meter		Netherlands
The Role of a Lifetime	Deimantas Narkevičius	Peter Watkins	Lithuania
The Saddest Music in the World	Guy Maddin	Mark McKinney, Isabella Rossellini, Maria de Medeiros	Canada	[24]
San Yuan Li	Ou Ning, Cao Fei		China
Scena	Deimantas Narkevičius		Lithuania
Tarnation	Jonathan Caouette		United States	[25]
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks	Wang Bing		China
Woodenhead	Florian Habicht	Nicholas Butler, Theresa Peters, Tony Bishop	New Zealand	[26]
2004
Anatomy of Hell	Catherine Breillat	Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi, Catherine Breillat	France	[27]
Cake and Steak	Abigail Child		United States
The Future is Behind You	Abigail Child		United States
A Hole in My Heart	Lukas Moodysson	Björn Almroth, Sanna Bråding, Thorsten Flinck, Goran Marjanovic	Sweden
Innocence	Lucile Hadžihalilović	Zoe Auclair, Berangere Haubruge, Lea Bridarolli	Belgium United Kingdom France	[28]
Light is Calling	Bill Morrison		United States
Mira Corpora	Stéphane Marti		France
Notre Musique	Jean-Luc Godard	Sarah Adler, Nade Dieu	Switzerland France	[29]
Once in the XX Century	Deimantas Narkevičius		Lithuania
Palindromes	Todd Solondz	Ellen Barkin, Stephen Adly-Guirgis, Jennifer Jason Leigh	United States	[30]
Planet Earth: Dreams	D.J. Mendel	Tim Donovan Jr., Denise Greber	United States	[31]
Proteus	David Lebrun	Marian Seldes, Corey Burton, Richard Dysart	United States	[32]
The Raspberry Reich	Bruce LaBruce	Susanne Sachsse, Daniel Batscher	Germany	[33]
Scenes from Freedonia	Cordelia Swann		United Kingdom
Stages of Mourning	Sarah Pucill		United Kingdom
Tropical Malady	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	Banlop Lomnoi, Sakda Kaewbuadee	Italy Germany Thailand France	[34]
X-Nana - Subroutine	Constanze Ruhm		Austria
Yes	Sally Potter		United Kingdom
2005
Blockade	Sergei Loznitsa		Ukraine
Bye Bye Havana	J. Michael Seyfert		Cuba
Drawing Restraint 9	Matthew Barney	Matthew Barney, Björk	United States	[35]
Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine	Peter Tscherkassky		Austria	[36]
Johanna	Kornél Mundruczó	Orsolya Toth, Zsolt Trill, Eszter Wierdl	Hungary	[37]
Last Days	Gus Van Sant	Michael Pitt, Lukas Haas, Asia Argento	United States	[38]
Lunacy	Jan Švankmajer	Pavel Liska, Jan Triska, Anna Geislerová	Slovakia Czech Republic	[39]
Manderlay	Lars von Trier	Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach de Bankolé, Danny Glover	Netherlands Sweden Denmark Italy France United Kingdom Germany	[40]
"Matrioškos"	Deimantas Narkevičius		Lithuania
One Day in People's Poland	Maciej Drygas		Poland
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes	Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay		United Kingdom
Rubber Johnny	Chris Cunningham		United Kingdom	[41]
The Space Between	Brad Butler, Noor Afshan Mirza		United Kingdom
Straight 8	Avisha Abraham		India
Super Mario Movie	Cory Arcangel, Paper Rad		United States
Untitled No. 1	Masha Godovannaya		Russia
The Wayward Cloud	Tsai Ming-Liang	Lee Kang-Sheng, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Lu Yi-ching	Taiwan France	[42]
Welt Spiegel Kino	Gustav Deutsch		Austria
What is it?	Crispin Glover	Michael Blevins, Rikky Wittman, John Insinna	United States	[43]
The Wild Blue Yonder	Werner Herzog	Brad Dourif	Denmark France Germany	[44]
The Zero Years	Nikos Nikolaidis	Vicky Harris, Jenny Kitselli, Arhontisa Mavrakaki	Greece	[45]
2006
'All that's solid melts into air' (Karl Marx)	Vong Phaophanit		Vietnam
Brand Upon the Brain!	Guy Maddin	Erik Steffen Maahs, Gretchen Lee Krich, Sullivan Brown	United States Canada	[46]
Container	Lukas Moodysson	Peter Lorentzon, Mariha Aberg, Jena Malone	Sweden	[47]
Daft Punk's Electroma	Thomas Bangalter, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo	Peter Hurteau, Michael Reich	United States	[48]
Dark Glass	Clio Barnard		United Kingdom
East Side Story	Igor Grubić		Croatia
Glass Lips	Lech Majewski	Patryk Czajka, Joanna Litwin, Grzegorz Przybyl	United States Poland	[49]
Gradiva	Alain Robbe-Grillet		France
The Highwater Trilogy	Bill Morrison		United States
Inland Empire	David Lynch	Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Harry Dean Stanton	Poland France United States	[50]
The Surging Sea of Humanity	Ken Jacobs		United States
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait	Douglas Gordon, Philippe Parreno	Zinedine Zidane	United Kingdom France Spain
2007
Caesural Variation I	Raqs Media Collective		India
The Head	Deimantas Narkevičius	Lev Kerbel	Lithuania
It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine	Crispin Glover	Steven C. Stewart, Margit Carstensen, Carrie Szlasa	United States	[51]
Japan Japan	Lior Shamriz	Imri Kahn	Israel	[52]
Lovely Andrea	Hito Steyerl		Japan
Manuelle Labor	Marie Losier	Marie Losier	United States	[53]
Mister Lonely	Harmony Korine	Diego Luna, Samantha Morton, Denis Lavant	Ireland United States United Kingdom France	[54]
My Winnipeg	Guy Maddin	Ann Savage	Canada	[55]
Revisiting Solaris	Deimantas Narkevičius	Donatas Banionis, Deimantas Narkevičius	Lithuania
You, the Living	Roy Andersson	Björn Englund, Elisabet Helander, Jessika Lundberg	Sweden
2008
History of Cinema	Rouzbeh Rashidi		Iran Ireland	Shortfilm
Veena Vaadanam	Sathish Kalathil	Sathish Kalathil, Sujith Aalungal	India	Documentary
Langue sacrée, langue parlée	Nurith Aviv		France Israel
Synecdoche, New York	Charlie Kaufman	Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton	United States	[56]
Tony Conrad, DreaMinimalist	Marie Losier	Tony Conrad	United States
Waltz With Bashir	Ari Folman		Germany France Israel	[57]
2009
Antichrist	Lars von Trier	Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm	Denmark	[58]
Atlantiques	Mati Diop		Senegal
Cinématon	Gérard Courant		France
Dogtooth	Yorgos Lanthimos	Christos Stergioglou, Michelle Valley, Angeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni, Christos Passali	Greece
Guilt (2009 film)	Vassilis Mazomenos	Nikos Arvanitis, Yannis Tsortekis, Arto Apartian	Greece
Enter the Void	Gaspar Noé	Paz de la Huerta, Nathaniel Brown	France	[59]
Into the Unknown	Deimantas Narkevičius		Lithuania
Trash Humpers	Harmony Korine	Rachel Korine, Brian Kotzur, Travis Nicholson	United States United Kingdom	[60]
Ville Marie	Alexandre Larose		Canada
Wild Grass	Alain Resnais	Sabine Azéma, André Dussollier, Anne Consigny	France Italy	[61]
2010
Film Socialisme	Jean-Luc Godard	Catherine Tanvier, Christian Sinniger, Jean-Marc Stehle	France Switzerland	[62]
Jalachhayam	Sathish Kalathil	Baburaj Puthoor, Dr. B Jayakrishnan, Kripa, Prasanna Balan, Master Navin Krishna	India	[63]
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	Thanapat Saisaymar, Jenjira Pongpas, Sakda Kaewbuadee	Thailand	[64]

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