David Lynch has been charged with making incomprehensible films. In fact, they make perfect sense, but not necessarily to us. An exemplary scene in "Fire Walk with Me" (1992) shows this: Two investigators are to receive their assignment from a very odd-looking woman named Lil. What they receive from

Anxiety, Dreamy, Enigmatic, Hallucinatory, Perverse, Quirky, Surreal, Surrealist film

Hans Richter's breakthrough studies of movement made the artistic leap between abstract painting and abstract film. A major figure in the development of Expressionism, Dada, De Stijl, Constructivism, and Surrealism, Richter was the creator (along with Viking Eggeling) of the Abstract Cinema -- the sp

Dada, Pioneering, Playful, Political, Representational, Surreal, Surrealist film

Collage, Dense, Dissonant, Hallucinatory, Sublime, Surrealist film, Violent

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