Year-End Lists

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2018 Movies

Michael Sicinski: Top 30 Experimental Films of 2018

26 December 2018

The Grand Bizarre - Jodie Mack

Michael Sicinski: Top 30 Experimental Films of 2018, as posted on his Patreon

[see also 25 Great Experimental Films of 2023 • The Best Experimental Films (That I Saw) in 2022 • The 30 Best Avant-Garde Feature Films of the 2010s • Top 50 Films of 2018 • Top 25 Films of 2017 • Top 10 Films of 2016 • Top 12 Films of 2014 • Top 10 Films of 2013 • Top 12 Films of 2012]

  1. The Grand Bizarre
    Jodie Mack
  2. Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)
    Nathaniel Dorsky
  3. Gens du lac
    Jean-Marie Straub
  4. A Return
    James Edmonds
  5. The Image Book
    Jean-Luc Godard
  6. Fainting Spells
    Sky Hopinka
  7. Love and the Epiphanists (Part One)
    Scott Stark
  8. Walled Unwalled
    Lawrence Abu Hamdan
  9. Fatal Pulse
    Damon Packard
  10. Hoarders Without Borders 1.0
    Jodie Mack
  11. A Bread Factory
    Patrick Wang
  12. Terror Nullius
    Soda_Jerk
  13. A Leaf is the Sea is a Theater
    Jonathan Schwartz
  14. Sketches and Portraits for Jean Michel
    Ephraim Asili
  15. Binary Stars
    Andrew Busti
  16. ALTIPLANO
    Malena Szlam
  17. Life After Love
    Zachary Epcar
  18. Now, At Last
    Ben Rivers
  19. Mahogany Too
    Akosua Adoma Owusu
  20. Fountains of Paris
    Stephen Broomer
  21. Goddess
    Kevin Jerome Everson
  22. Blue
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  23. Black Mother
    Khalik Allah
  24. Atomic Garden
    Ana Vaz
  25. Fallen Arches
    Simon Liu
  26. Veslemøy's Song
    Sofia Bohdanowicz
  27. I Can See Forever
    Jeremy Shaw
  28. The Sun Quartet
    Colectivo Los Ingravídos
  29. Commute
    Vincent Grenier
  30. The Other Side of the Wind
    Orson Welles

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