A member of the legendary Cahiers quintet, Jacques Rivette was a critic before a filmmaker. Reading his early criticism, though, it’s clear he thought in images from the start, even in words, emphasizing closed complex circuits of mise-en-scene, the better to form meaning. However, he trains one ey

Absurd, Charming, Conceptual, Death, Enigmatic, Event, Excessive, Feminine, Figurative, Functional, Grotesque, Hallucinatory, Layered, Loose, Manic, Paranoid, Playful, Polychromatic, Quirky, Sardonic, Saturated, Self-reflection, Sexy, Spectral, Whimsical

Maurico Kagel was a German-Argentine composer, filmmaker, visual artist, and playwright of Argentine birth. He is recognized as one of the most important figures in 20th century European music, and has garnered his place through his imaginative, absurd, and theatrical works for the concert hall. Kage

20th-century music, Absurd, Citational, Deconstructive, Electro-acoustic, Experimental, Ironic, Playful, Political, Rebel, Social revolution, Surreal

French writer, often called the greatest innovator of form of his generation. He was a highly-regarded French Jewish novelist, filmmaker and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. Perec was orphaned at an early age: his father was killed in action in World War II, and his mother died in a

Absurd, Clever, Conceptual, Experimental, Oulipo, Playful, Quirky, Repetition, Whimsical

Twenty minutes to collect 100,000 deutsche marks. Pulsating techno. Whip pans and fast edits. A fiery heroine with dyed-red hair frantically running to save her boyfriend's life. "The initial idea was an image," says 34-year-old director Tom Tykwer. "The image of a woman running." This apparently or

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