1960s avant-garde

Pioneer of the French New Wave who radically deconstructed narrative cinema through experimental techniques like jump cuts, breaking the fourth wall, and political commentary in films like Pierrot le fou (1965).

Founder of American experimental cinema who rejected conventional storytelling entirely, creating abstract visual poetry through hand-painted film, rapid montage, and exploration of pure cinematic form.

Soviet filmmaker who pushed narrative cinema into philosophical abstraction through long takes, poetic imagery, and rejection of conventional plot in meditative works like Mirror (1975).