“For me, cinema is sorcery, a creative way to interact with the world in order to rearrange perception and expand consciousness, both the viewers and my own” --Nina Called “Brilliant, one of the most provocative artists in film today” by The Los Angeles Times, Nina Menkes synthesizes inn

Dreamy, Experimental, Feminist, Hallucinatory, Hypnotic, Intense, Pioneering, Spiritual, Surreal

Pioneering avant-garde 'father of the american underground', Jack Smith has been regarded by many as one of the most influential, and overlooked, director in the history of american independent cinema and one of the originators of Performance Art. Smith's queer aesthetics, mixed with keen eye for ca

Queer, Surreal

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

One of America's most critically acclaimed filmmakers for more than 20 years, Scorsese has won worldwide plaudits with a body of work that is informed by his Italian-American Catholic upbringing. As a young man, Scorsese decided to enter the priesthood, but dropped out of seminary after his first yea

Open-ended, Polychromatic, Surreal, Tense