Year-End Lists

Michael Sicinski: The 30 Best Avant-Garde Feature Films of the 2010s, as published by Mubi, "the selection of which presents a challenge of access, sensibility, and privilege"

[see also Ten Experimental Films That Defined 2025 • Twenty-One Experimental Films That Defined 2024 • 25 Great Experimental Films of 2023 • The Best Experimental Films (That I Saw) in 2022 • Top Ten Films of 2019 • Top 50 Films of 2018 • Top 30 Experimental Films of 2018 • Top 25 Films of 2017 • Top Films of 2016 • Best Films of 2015 • Top 12 Films of 2014 • Top 10 Films of 2013 • Top 12 Films of 2012]

1. The Extravagant Shadows
   David Gatten
2. The Grand Bizarre
   Jodie Mack
3. The Giverny Document (Single Channel)
   Ja’Tovia Gary
4. PROTOTYPE
   Blake Williams
5. Differently, Molussia
   Nicolas Rey
6. Streetscapes [Dialogue]
   Heinz Emigholz
7. Sixty Six
   Lewis Klahr
8. Park Lanes
   Kevin Jerome Everson
9. American Colour
   Joshua Bonnetta
10. Episode of the Sea
    Van Brummelen & De Haan and the inhabitants of Urk, Netherlands
11. Field Niggas
    Khalik Allah
12. The Realist
    Scott Stark
13. Watching the Detectives
    Chris Kennedy
14. Terror Nullius
    Soda_Jerk
15. American Falls
    Phil Solomon
16. Daredevils
    Stephanie Barber
17. The Lanthanide Series
    Erin Espelie
18. The Illinois Parables
    Deborah Stratman
19. Tondal's Vision
    Stephen Broomer
20. Seeking the Monkey King
    Ken Jacobs
21. Easy Rider
    James Benning
22. Science Without Substance
    Daniel Barnett
23. Two Years at Sea
    Ben Rivers
24. Invention
    Mark Lewis
25. Three Landscapes
    Peter Hutton
26. 88:88
    Isiah Medina
27. The Royal Road
    Jenni Olson
28. Circle in the Sand
    Michael Robinson
29. Ouroboros
    Basma Alsharif
30. Where the Chocolate Mountains
    Pat O'Neill