Pull My Daisy: Art Demonstrating Art.

Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie's 1959 short film, Pull My Daisy, is art exemplifying art. I was surprised to learn that Jack Kerouac wrote the source material and the adapted screenplay as well as provided narration. I feel like knowing about Jack Kerouac is necessary to understand my view of this film, so here's a very brief summary of Kerouac:
This guy...

...inspired beatniks...

...with his book, On the Road...

...which Kristen Stewart ruined the movie adaptation of...

So Jack Kerouac, unintentional inventor of beatniks (and by extension, hippies, hipsters, etc.), decided to "typify" the beatniks. Beatniks were (or are... I don't know if there are still beatniks)
 known for their interest in art. Slam poetry, Americans playing bongo drums, and more artistic styles were popularized by beatniks. They ever adopted the already existing cliche of wearing berets while being into art. The beatnik styles had similarities; they deviated from the norm. Rhythm and spontaneity were emphasized in their works.  

Pull My Daisy acts almost as an introduction to the beatnik lifestyle. The entire film was made to seem improvised, with erratic editing in unexpected places, such as around the 17:40 mark, and a narration by Jack Kerouac. Though the film was revealed to be not improvised in 1968 (thanks, Wikipedia!), I couldn't find anything stating Kerouac's narration wasn't improvised. The characters act like typical beatniks, playing music, discussing poetry, challenging ideas of religion, and so on. The main character's wife is even a painter. The film becomes a work of art imitating the beatnik style to show the beatnik style. It resembles a much older film thanks to film damage even though it was made in the late '50s, it has occaisionally surreal imagery interspersed with long scenes of normal (if introspective) conversations. The characters don't all have a goal, and the movie doesn't have a conflict beyond the individual things the bohemians want from each other and the bishop.

Pull My Daisy exemplifies the beatnik generation by joining it, becoming a work of art that embraces spontaneity and is an original and unexpected approach to the medium.