A perpetual innovator who indelibly altered the nature of his craft, French director Jean-Luc Godard stood at the forefront of the French New Wave, the late-1950s movement that included Fran'ois Truffaut, Eric Rohmer, and other former film critics from the journal Cahiers du Cinema who refracted the

Citational, Collage, Deconstructive, Existentialist literature, Expansive, French new wave, Intimate, Minimal, Open-ended, Quiet, Self-reflection, Social revolution

A visionary, revitalizing force in the New German Cinema of the 1970s, Werner Herzog articulated the dreams of the human spirit. In contrast to his contemporaries, who focused on frenzied, high-tech effects and chaotic jump cuts, Herzog used a lyrical film language to depict quiet spaces of epic unfo

Dystopic, Epic, Excessive, New german cinema, Pioneering, Political, Rebel, Tribal

Canadian filmmaker R. Bruce Elder is a leading figure in avant garde film. He first studied philosophy He first studied philosophy, graduating from McMaster University with a BA and then with a Masters from the University of Toronto before pursuing Media S

Abstract, Agitated, Distorted, Dreamy, Fantastic, Moody, Playful, Sensual

Alejandro Jodorowsky is a film maker, most famous for his mystical cult classics "El Topo" and "The Holy Mountain." Throughout his 60 year career in the world of film and theatre, he has followed a path of spiritual enlightenment that has had an apparent influence on all his works In 1962, he i

Abstract, Beautiful , Hypnotic, Mythic, Pioneering, Psychedelic, Psychological, Religious