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A list of avant-garde and experimental films released before 1930.
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Sub-Genre/Notes |
| 1912 |
| Das Mirakel |
Max Reinhardt, Cherry Kearton |
Maria Carmi, Douglas Payne, Ernst Matray |
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| 1921 |
| Manhatta |
Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler |
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| Rhythmus 21 |
Hans Richter |
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| Symphonie Diagonale |
Viking Eggeling |
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| 1923 |
| Le Retour à la Raison |
Man Ray |
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| 1924 |
| Ballet Mécanique |
Fernand Léger |
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| 1926 |
| A Page of Madness |
Teinosuke Kinugasa |
Masuo Inoue, Yoshie Nakagawa |
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| Anemic Cinema |
Marcel Duchamp |
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| Emak-Bakia |
Man Ray |
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| 1927 |
| Berlin: Symphony of a Great City |
Alberto Cavalcanti, Walter Ruttmann |
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Documentary film |
| The Seashell and the Clergyman |
Germaine Dulac |
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| 1928 |
| The Fall of the House of Usher |
James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber |
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Short film |
| Ghosts Before Breakfast |
Hans Richter |
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| L'Étoile de mer |
Man Ray |
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| The Life and Death of 9413 - A Hollywood Extra |
Robert Florey |
Jules Raucourt |
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| Un chien andalou |
Luis Buñuel |
Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil |
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Short film |
| Zvenigora |
Alexander Dovzhenko |
Mikola Nademsky, Semen Svashenko, Alexander Podorozhny |
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| 1929 |
| H2O |
Ralph Steiner |
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| Man with a Movie Camera |
Dziga Vertov |
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| Les Mystéres du Château du Dé |
Man Ray |
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| People on Sunday |
Robert Siodmak |
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| Regen |
Joris Ivens, Mannus Franken |
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