"Filmmakers began straying from the traditional and commercial narrative structure as early as the 1920s, favoring surreal and abstract images with minimal dialogue or text instead. They chose form over content and contemplative messages over fast-paced action, explored novel shooting and editing techniques, dabbled in color symbolism, featured relatively unknown performers, and targeted a much smaller, underground audience that would truly appreciate their innovative artistic vision. And so, the designation "experimental film" was coined in the newspaper Berliner Zeitung; cinema had officially birthed a new genre that would endure to this day. In the 1960s, with the waning of the studio system and its strict guidelines, certain directors indulged in crafting thought-provoking, cutting-edge, and visually expressive pictures outside mainstream cinema; the following 17 titles appealed only to select avant-garde cinephiles." - movieweb.com
