Movies: Experimental surrealism

SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity....

A mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a gigantic set of intestine. When Frenchy slips through the door, King Fausto falls in love with her. The jealous Queen Doris takes Frenchy prisoner, and i...

A disastrous one-night stand between strangers, Asha and Lucas, gets extended when a police lockdown traps the lovers in Asha’s Oakland apartment. As the night progresses, strange things occur, and nothing is as it seems. Asha and Lucas must survive ...

This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions the major stations of his life, while capturing the political tremors of the time....

In a surreal universe where bananas fire laser beams and soup cans are used as grenades, a wacky cast of gangsters are thrown into a deadly game to battle it out over a mystical longboard in this trippy take on the Tarantino crime genre....

During the Covid-19 pandemic, four anxious strangers take a record-breaking dose of LSD, catapulting them into a shared psychedelic dream where they must find solace and redemption before they can return to the real world....

Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creatio...

After a catastrophic global war, a young filmmaker awakens in the carnage and seeks refuge in the only other survivor: an eccentric, ideologically opposed figure of the United States military. Together, they brave the toxic landscape in search of saf...

Karma, an international high school student from Sikkim struggles to fit in and hold onto his cultural identity when he is stuck at home with his host sibling, Alex....

Bound by an unfulfilled promise, a man prepares a meal for his mother, only to find himself lost in a night where memory and reality dissolve into one....

The flashes of memories and the feeling of lights and images blurring and streaking around. The hectic energy of running around drunk. And the muscle memory zombie walk home....

Described as 'a fairytale with its roots in the worlds of dadaism and surrealism'....

A spiral of dreams and ages unravel as two celestial characters awaken and transmutate into a mythological being....

Denying his flourishing compulsive homosexuality, a forgotten celebrity confronts his incestuous obsession along the path of self-discovery....

The plot revolves around two completely different and distant women — a nurse and a fashion model — who are haunted by their own spectre after going through the same experience: they can no longer see their reflections in the mirror....

Join Lucy as she embarks on a spiritual journey to Mars in this psychedelic short film full of music and mischief....

Switching between their surreal perspectives, two high school students attempt to find their purpose as they battle their inner demons and a narcissistic society....

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A woman commits a violent suicide in a bathroom, involving the use of Harakiri. "I wonder how it feels to cut your own stomach open. Even though it is very scary, I dream about it as if someone deep inside me is provoking me. Just thinking about what...

An adaptation of the play "4.48 Psychosis" written by Sarah Kane. The movie consists of scenes that work as a fragmenteded voyage through the mind of a person on a deeply depressive state. Everything is shown in a raw and experimental manner to bring...