Film eksperimental

Film eksperimental, sinema eksperimental atau sinema avant-garde adalah sebuah mode pembuatan film yang mengevaluasi ulang konvensi sinematik dan mengeksplorasi bentuk-bentuk non-naratif dan alternatif dari naratif tradisional atau metode pengerjaan.^[1] Beberapa film eksperimental, terutama yang terawal, berkaitan dengan seni rupa dalam disiplin lainnya: melukis, menari, sastra dan puisi,^[2] atau timbul dari riset dan pengembangan sumber daya teknikal baru.^[3]

• A. L. Rees, A History of Experimental Film and Video (British Film Institute, 1999).
• Malcolm Le Grice, Abstract Film and Beyond (MIT Press, 1977).
• Scott MacDonald, A Critical Cinema, Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988, 1992, 1998, 2005, and 2006).
• Scott MacDonald, Avant-Garde Film: Motion Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
• Holly Rogers, Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art-Music (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
• Holly Rogers and Jeremy Barham, the Music and Sound of Experimental Film (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).
• James Peterson, Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order: Understanding the American Avant-Garde Cinema (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994).
• Jack Sargeant, Naked Lens: Beat Cinema (Creation, 1997).
• P. Adams Sitney, Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974).
• Michael O’Pray, Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions (London: Wallflower Press, 2003).
• David Curtis (ed.), A Directory of British Film and Video Artists (Arts Council, 1999).
• David Curtis, Experimental Cinema - A Fifty Year Evolution (London. Studio Vista. 1971)
• Wheeler Winston Dixon, The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960s American Experimental Cinema (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997)
• Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (eds.) Experimental Cinema - The Film Reader (London: Routledge, 2002)
• Stan Brakhage, Film at Wit's End - Essays on American Independent Filmmakers (Edinburgh: Polygon. 1989)
• Stan Brakhage, Essential Brakhage - Selected Writings on Filmmaking (New York: McPherson. 2001)
• Parker Tyler, Underground Film: A Critical History (New York: Grove Press, 1969)
• Jeffrey Skoller Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film (Minneapolis: Minnesota UP, 2005)
• Jackie Hatfield, Experimental Film and Video (John Libbey Publishing, 2006; distributed in North America by Indiana University Press)
• Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema (Dutton, 1970) available as pdf at Ubuweb Diarsipkan 2018-02-10 di Wayback Machine.
• Dominique Noguez, Éloge du cinéma expérimental (Paris Expérimental, 2010, 384 p. ISBN 978-2-912539-41-0, in French) Paris Expérimental Diarsipkan 2014-04-22 di Wayback Machine.
• Al Rees, David Curtis, Duncan White, Stephen Ball, Editors,Expanded Cinema: Art, Performance and Film, (Tate Publishing, 2011)