Avant-garde, surrealism, abstract cinema, minimalism and non-linear narrative
Albert Serra’s cinema once again reaches the boundaries of experimentalism as he explores the historic figure (and death) of Louis XIV. Wilf Family Foundation Award at the 33rd Jerusalem International Film Festival.
With his directorial debut, Yorgos Zois breaks the fourth wall as he is experimenting on how myth and art interrupt actual life. Or is it the other way around?
Nikolaus Geyrhalter creates his magnum opus as he observes the financial and personal downfall of the rural post-industrial Austria during an extended 10-year period.
An experimental journey by Vladimir Todorović that explores the inner real identities which emerge in a rough and mountainous Montenegrin landscape.
Mexico's most troubled political period is blended with traces of poetry and Carlos Reygadas' essence, when betrayal surpasses love in Joshua Gil's debut feature film.
Jodorowsky meets Tarkovsky with a touch of Beckettian minimalism in Lisandro Alonso's hypnotic meta-Western that leads Viggo Mortensen into a never-ending journey to a surreal existential void.
Jean-Luc Godard explores the limits of individualism, apathy and venality as the children of Marx and Coca-Cola grew up.
The first masterfully structured abstract elegiac work by Leos Carax as he becomes French cinema's most acknowledged enfant terrible.
The debut feature film by Sergei Eisenstein and the first archetypical example of pure communist propaganda.
Alexandr Hackenschmied directs the landmark of Czechoslovak avant-garde cinema and one of the most influential of its genre.
An excellent example of experimental cinema that touches the verges of lyrical poetic naturalism by Philippe Grandrieux.
Philippe Grandrieux offers a multilayered dream-like filmic experience through the most radical experimental film of the recent years.