Genre "Avant-garde / Experimental" Movies
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| 1. Begotten (year: 1991) |
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A "metaphysical splatter film" that was praised by Susan Sontag as "one of the 10 most important films of modern times," Begotten ...
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| 2. Decasia (year: 2002) |
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Experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison created this non-narrative feature, which derives a large portion of its visual beauty from the physical nature o ...
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| 3. Eraserhead (year: 1977) |
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Filmed intermittently over the course of a five-year period, David Lynch's radical feature debut stars Jack Nance as Henry Spencer, a man living in an ...
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| 4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (year: 1998) |
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Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, The Fisher King) directed this colorful, stylized, pseudo-psychedelic $21-million adaptation of the 1971 Hunte ...
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| 5. Gummo (year: 1997) |
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In this elliptical ensemble piece, which marks the directorial debut of indie bad boy Harmony Korine, the teens of tornado-scarred Xenia, OH, kill cat ...
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| 6. Inland Empire (year: 2006) |
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Cinema of the surreal icon David Lynch follows up the success of his critically acclaimed 2001 feature Mulholland Drive with this dark mystery, shot o ...
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| 7. Klimt (year: 2006) |
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Raul Ruiz's Klimt uses an amorphous, a-chronological narrative to cinematize events from the life of one of the 20th century's most profound artists: ...
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| 8. Koyaanisqatsi (year: 1982) |
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An art-house circuit sensation, this feature-length documentary is visually arresting and possesses a clear, pro-environmental political agenda. Witho ...
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| 9. Letter to Jane (year: 1972) |
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Letter to Jane consists of a series of still photographs in which filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin read aloud a letter to actress Jane ...
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| 10. Lunacy (year: 2005) |
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A man who fears he's edging into madness gets a fresh perspective on what insanity really means in this frantic, visually inventive black comedy from ...
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| 11. McLuhan's Wake (year: 2002) |
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Performance artist Laurie Anderson narrates this documentary filmed to explore the life and career of Marshall McLuhan while exploring just how the fa ...
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| 12. Meatball Machine (year: 2005) |
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A race of alien parasites that has discovered the secret of transforming human flesh into biomechanical weaponry stages a grotesque invasion of planet ...
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| 13. Media (year: 1980) |
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| 14. Pi (year: 1998) |
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Darren Aronofsky scripted and made his directorial debut with this experimental feature with mathematical plot threads hinting at science-fictional el ...
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| 15. Renaissance (year: 1963) |
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| 16. Sebastiane (year: 1976) |
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Filmed entirely in vulgar Latin, this experimental film recounts the life of Sebastiane, a puritanical but beautiful Christian soldier in the Roman Im ...
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| 17. The Belly of an Architect (year: 1987) |
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American architect Stourley Kracklite (Brian Dennehy) comes with his young wife Louisa (Chloe Webb) to Rome to supervise an exhibition devoted to Etie ...
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| 19. Themroc (year: 1973) |
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This extraordinary romp uses no language whatever, except gestures and grunts. When a salt crystal is dropped into a solution of water that contains a ...
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| 20. Tropical Malady (year: 2004) |
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One of Thailand's leading experimental filmmakers, Apichatpong Weerasethakul directed this ambitious examination of fear and desire. Keng (Banlop Lomn ...
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| 21. Waking Life (year: 2001) |
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Richard Linklater returned to the semi-improvised approach and philosophical themes of his debut feature Slacker while embracing a new and groundbreak ...
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| 22. We Are the Strange (year: 2007) |
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The quest for ice cream takes a sinister turn into the land of nightmares in animator M. dot Strange's intoxicating hodgepodge of visual stimuli. Cast ...
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