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poster
Criterion Channel
84
8.2
/39548/
79
/1186/
79
/965/
4.3
/144570/
90
/29/
93
/732/

La Jetée (1962)
A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.
poster
Fandor
83
7.6
/56352/
71
/1236/
73
/1382/
3.8
/138723/
100
/26/
85
/1343/

Un Chien Andalou (1929)
Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
poster
Kanopy
83
7.8
/16542/
76
/505/
75
/427/
4.2
/85220/
100
/6/
85
/245/

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.
poster
73
6.8
/1533/
60
/28/
68
/54/
3.6
/2170/

The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her nameless traveller fiancé arrives at the crumbling estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless—even deadly—lengths to keep them apart.
poster
79
70
7.5
/3969/
68
/85/
70
/108/
4.0
/9819/
100
/9/
86
/45/

Song of Love (1950)
Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication.
poster
82
65
7.8
/2917/
70
/63/
73
/89/
4.0
/7208/
100
/5/
91
/26/

Ménilmontant (1926)
A pair of sisters leave the country for the city after their parents are slaughtered in a mysterious axe murder.
poster
70
64
6.9
/9031/
69
/236/
68
/271/
3.7
/40690/

Rabbits (2002)
A story of a group of humanoid rabbits and their depressive, daily life. The plot includes Suzie ironing, Jane sitting on a couch, Jack walking in and out of the apartment, and the occasional solo singing number by Suzie or Jane. At one point the rabbits also make contact with their “leader”.
poster
Criterion Channel
68
63
6.7
/9374/
65
/228/
65
/241/
3.6
/40072/
76
/42/

The Alphabet (1969)
A woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.
poster
82
63
8.1
/5225/
77
/146/
76
/160/
4.2
/15923/
93
/15/

Dimensions of Dialogue (1983)
Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.
poster
Kanopy
76
63
7.5
/3670/
70
/73/
72
/105/
4.0
/16106/
83
/566/

At Land (1944)
A woman washes up on a beach and embarks on a surreal journey, encountering others and fragmented versions of herself in a quest for identity.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
63
7.1
/8046/
67
/177/
65
/178/
3.6
/26306/
76
/66/

The Grandmother (1970)
To escape neglect and abuse from his parents, a young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
62
7.3
/4436/
69
/95/
69
/147/
3.7
/8218/
81
/460/

Entr'acte (1924)
Stop-motion photography blends with extreme slow-motion in Clair's first and most 'dada' film, composed of a series of zany, interconnected scenes. We witness a rooftop chess match between Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, a hearse pulled by a camel (and chased by its pallbearers) and a dizzying roller coaster finale. A film of contradictions and agreements.
poster
AMC+
62
6.1
/186/
64
/9/
70
/2/
3.1
/720/
69
/26/
67
/3/
59
/7/

Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles (2020)
Documenting the collaboration between world renowned chef Yotam Ottolenghi and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the film follows five visionary pastry makers as they endeavor to construct an extravagant food gala based on the art exhibit "Visitors to Versailles." Exploring the relationship between modern-day social media and the open court of the French Monarchy, the film studies the alarmingly cyclical intersection between food, culture, and history.
poster
76
59
7.4
/2260/
75
/143/
76
/73/
4.0
/53598/

Possibly in Michigan (1983)
A musical horror story about two young women who are stalked through a shopping mall by a cannibal. He follows them home, and here the victims become the aggressors.
poster
72
57
7.0
/1737/
58
/22/
68
/64/
3.7
/3976/
77
/197/
86
/46741/

The Starfish (1928)
The romantic relationship between a man and a woman.
poster
Kanopy
73
55
6.9
/1974/
68
/48/
69
/64/
3.9
/7141/
84
/465/

Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946)
A social event choreographed in the manner of a dance, illuminated by concepts drawn from Greek legend; one of filmmaker Maya Deren's most intriguing works.
poster
67
52
6.7
/3518/
68
/74/
64
/111/
3.5
/10333/

Ballet Mécanique (1924)
A pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. This is a world in motion, dominated by mechanical and repetitive images, with a few moments of solitude in a garden.
poster
Kanopy
74
50
7.9
/1885/
71
/48/
65
/67/
4.2
/7379/

Pas de Deux (1968)
Two ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal after-image visuals.
poster
Filmzie
72
50
7.3
/1832/
69
/72/
69
/67/
4.0
/5530/

Begone Dull Care (1949)
In this extraordinary short animation, Evelyn Lambart and Norman McLaren painted colours, shapes, and transformations directly onto their filmstrip. The result is a vivid interpretation, in fluid lines and colour, of jazz music played by the Oscar Peterson Trio.
poster
74
50
7.6
/1937/
70
/39/
73
/44/
3.9
/2862/

The Flat (1968)
A man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.
poster
MUBI
71
49
7.1
/3130/
71
/138/
64
/127/
4.0
/22794/
69
/7/

Outer Space (1999)
A young woman move towards a house that holds a potentially dangerous spirit that has been tormenting her. The woman tries to fight against the film itself as it starts to cause the world to collapse.
poster
Kanopy
64
48
6.9
/1889/
56
/57/
65
/45/
3.6
/4312/
60
/379/

Eaux d'Artifice (1953)
A woman dressed elegantly walks purposely through the water gardens at the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, as the music of Vivaldi's Winter movement of The Four Seasons plays. Heavy red filters give a blue cast to the light; water plays across stone, and fountains send it into the air. No words are spoken. Baroque statuary and the sensuous flow of water are back lit. Anger calls it water games.
poster
73
48
7.5
/2574/
65
/47/
68
/72/
4.0
/8296/
81
/13/

Window Water Baby Moving (1959)
On a winter's day, a woman stretches near a window then sits in a bathtub of water. She's happy. Her lover is nearby; there are close ups of her face, her pregnant belly, and his hands caressing her. She gives birth: we see the crowning of the baby's head, then the birth itself; we watch a pair of hands tie off and cut the umbilical cord. With the help of the attending hands, the mother expels the placenta. The infant, a baby girl, nurses. We return from time to time to the bath scene. By the end, dad's excited; mother and daughter rest. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
poster
68
48
7.0
/2440/
67
/48/
65
/71/
3.6
/6962/

The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928)
Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
poster
63
47
6.5
/2081/
61
/40/
60
/54/
3.3
/2938/
63
/53/

The Severed Heads (1957)
A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads.
poster
Criterion Channel
53
46
5.6
/7057/
51
/157/
55
/204/
3.1
/22600/
43
/28/

Six Men Getting Sick (1967)
Lynch's first film project consists of a looping animation of six people vomiting projected on to a special sculptured screen featuring twisted three-dimensional faces.
poster
64
46
6.4
/2394/
57
/57/
63
/110/
3.5
/7525/

Return to Reason (1923)
Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, the light-striped torso of Kiki of Montparnasse (Alice Prin), a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.
poster
71
45
6.3
/1541/
56
/37/
61
/50/
3.6
/1947/
100
/9/
78
/3/

Prelude: Dog Star Man (1962)
A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence. A black screen, then streaks of light, then an explosion of color and squiggles and happenstance. Next, images of small circles emerge then of the Sun. Images of our Earth appear, woods, a part of a body, a nude woman perhaps giving birth. Imagery evokes movement across time. Part of the Dog Star Man series of experimental films.
poster
Criterion Channel
53
45
5.5
/5248/
48
/121/
51
/131/
2.9
/12058/

The Amputee (1974)
A double amputee attempts to write a letter while her nurse gets in the way. [The Amputee was produced in order to test two different black and white video stocks for the American Film Institute. There are therefore two different versions of the film, each using the same script but shot on different stocks and differing in other incidental ways in terms of performance, sound design and duration. This is Version 1.]
poster
70
45
7.1
/1619/
70
/37/
65
/51/
3.7
/3348/

The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra (1928)
This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by the number 9413 written on his forehead.
poster
Kanopy
64
44
6.2
/1209/
62
/30/
58
/38/
3.6
/3771/
69
/362/

The Very Eye of Night (1958)
Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate untroubled by gravity against a slowly changing starfield background. Their movements are accompanied by music scored for a small ensemble of woodwind and percussion.
poster
72
43
7.1
/2065/
67
/58/
68
/59/
3.7
/5403/
81
/9/

Ghosts Before Breakfast (1928)
Hans Richter, noted for his abstract shorts, has everyday objects rebelling against their daily routine.
poster
70
43
6.0
/1617/
50
/50/
62
/48/
3.5
/1563/
100
/9/
78
/3/

Dog Star Man: Part I (1963)
From a murky landscape, a wooded mountain emerges. We watch the sun. We see a bearded man climbing up the mountain through the snow. He carries an ax, and he's accompanied by a dog. His labors continue. There is no soundtrack. Images rush past - water, trees, and surfaces too close up to distinguish. He struggles. A fire burns. Nature, in long shots and magnified, is formidable and silent. It's tough going; he carries on. In a capillary, blood flows.
poster
56
42
5.5
/2760/
54
/65/
54
/78/
3.1
/5294/

Darkened Room (2002)
Two young women find themselves in a dark room where there is a distinctly strange feeling.
poster
64
41
6.3
/1275/
63
/54/
59
/67/
3.6
/3499/

Free Radicals (1958)
In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leader, using a variety of tools from saw teeth to arrow heads. The first version of the film won a major award at the International Experimental Film Festival Held in Brussels in 1958 in association with the World's Fair. Stan Brakhage described the film as "an almost unbelievably immense masterpiece".
poster
71
41
6.3
/1234/
52
/31/
65
/42/
3.6
/1264/
100
/9/
78
/3/

Dog Star Man: Part II (1963)
A man, accompanied by a dog, struggles through snow on a mountain side. We see film stock blister; drawn square shapes appear. Then, we see an infant's face. The images of struggling climber, baby, blurred film stock, large snow flakes, and what may be microscopic details of matter are superimposed on each other, one dominating the frame briefly to be replaced by another. As the man falls in the snow and tries to regain his feet, the baby continues to appear, first with eyes closed. Alternately, images rush by - montages of paper cutouts and life under a microscope.
poster
Criterion Channel
69
41
6.6
/960/
69
/53/
68
/37/
3.7
/9309/

Emotion (1966)
Experimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters her counterpart, Sari, and falls in love with…a vampire?
poster
70
40
6.3
/1220/
50
/30/
61
/40/
3.6
/1249/
100
/9/
78
/3/

Dog Star Man: Part IV (1964)
A man is supine on a mountain side. Images rush past of nature and a stained glass saint. An infant is born. We see a lactating nipple. Images include a mountain peak, farm buildings, a tree stump, a fire, a crawling baby, and the sun. The man falls and rolls. Then, later, he swings his ax.
poster
72
40
6.6
/226/
51
/6/
64
/13/
3.7
/749/
95
/60/
85
/342/

Visa de censure n° X (1976)
Best known for his roles in Belle de jour, Sweet Movie, and many more, Pierre Clementi was also the architect behind a transgressive, high-minded, and disorienting cinema. Like an acid-soaked freefall, Visa de censure n° X is a rush of nudity and color from one of France’s most seductively watchable actors, set to an album's worth of psychedelic prog rock (performed by the Delired Cameleon Family, a group featuring members of French band Clearlight).
poster
70
40
6.3
/1199/
46
/30/
61
/41/
3.6
/1213/
100
/9/
78
/3/

Dog Star Man: Part III (1964)
Sexual intimacy. Three kinds of images race past, superimposed on each other sometimes: two bodies, a man and a woman's, close up, nude - patches of skin, wisps of hair, glimpses of a face and genitalia; strips of celluloid with lines and squiggles scratched on them; and, close-up shots of what appear to be the insides of living bodies - a heart beating, muscle and sinew and tissue wet with fluids. The exterior and interior of desire.
poster
54
39
5.7
/1547/
48
/36/
55
/61/
3.2
/3772/
46
/194/

Rhythm 21 (1921)
Abstract animated short film. Grey and white squares change size and shape on a black background.
poster
66
39
6.3
/1017/
62
/37/
65
/38/
3.6
/6154/

Witch's Cradle (1944)
The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost spiderweb-like pattern over the hands of several individuals, most notably an unnamed young woman and an elderly gentleman. The film also shows a shadowy darkness and people filmed at odd angles, an exposed human heart, and other occult symbols and ritualistic imagery which evokes an unsettling and dream-like aura. Considered an unfinished film.
poster
Kanopy
63
39
6.4
/1856/
63
/53/
58
/71/
3.6
/6770/
61
/11/

A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945)
Maya Deren’s shortest, two-minute A Study in Choreography for Camera seems like an exercise piece to capture a dancer’s movement on celluloid, which later on developed into her masterpieces such as Ritual in Transfigured Time and Meditation on Violence.
poster
59
37
5.8
/1468/
61
/37/
54
/46/
3.2
/3578/

Boat (2003)
A journey into night.
poster
56
37
5.6
/1620/
55
/55/
53
/66/
3.0
/7087/

Absurd Encounter with Fear (1967)
A man approaches a woman in a field.
poster
66
37
6.5
/730/
62
/49/
65
/34/
3.5
/13925/

Atman (1975)
ĀTMAN is a visual tour-de-force based on the idea of the subject at the centre of the circle created by camera positions (480 such positions). Shooting frame-by-frame the filmmaker set up an increasingly rapid circular motion. ĀTMAN is an early Buddhist deity often connected with destruction; the Japanese aspect is stressed by the devil mask of Hangan, from the Noh, and by using both Noh music and the general principle of acceleration often associated with Noh drama.
poster
Criterion Channel
64
37
6.7
/776/
50
/22/
64
/31/
3.9
/2763/

Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia (1971)
Michael Snow narrates a series of Hollis Frampton's photographs (speaking as Frampton, in the first person)—as each picture catches fire on a hot plate.
poster
63
36
6.2
/1054/
63
/34/
59
/47/
3.4
/1881/

Lichtspiel: Opus I (1921)
Against a dark background, several bright, curved or rounded shapes pulse towards the center of the screen, one at a time. They are followed by many other shapes, some irregular, some pointed, others rounded. The abstract shapes move into or across the screen in harmony with the musical score.


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