Initially a photographer, Agnès Varda has been making films since 1956, and is one of the few women associated with the French New Wave, though more accurately, work by Varda belongs more precisely to the complementary Rive Gauche (Left Bank Cinema) movement, along with Chris Marker, Alain Resnais,

Experimental, Intimate, Lyrical, Pioneering, Playful, Political, Self-reflection

Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin's idiosyncratic, surreal, and often very funny works are often cited for their silent film sensibilities. Often compared to David Lynch's early works, Maddin's films are bizarre and post-modern, frequently including themes of unrequited love, murder, homoeroticism, inces

Absurd, Atmospheric, Homoerotic, Monochromatic, Silent film, Surreal, Surrealist film

writer, director, musician, artist.

Catastrophe, Complex, Dark, Deconstructive, Experimental, Political, Primal, Profane

Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967) embodied the modernist ideal of the maladaptive artist so well that a balanced evaluation of his work as filmmaker and painter depends on one’s ability to withhold automatic beatification based solely on his biography. Born and educated in Germany, exiled to Los Angeles

Abstract painting, Abstraction, Avant-garde film, Geometric, Polychromatic