Movies: Surrealism

A collection of interwoven images are threaded together by a string of unspecified women who roam their dreamscape which they are unable to escape. They are displaced, belonging to no particular point in time or place, and a disoriented sense of self...

In an alternate reality where the decline of nations has given rise to corporatist regimes, any trace of culture or tradition is suppressed by these new leaders to prevent the masses from reclaiming a national identity. However, rebel cells have emer...

A rural school bus driver turns to theft but is held accountable for his actions....

A man experiences strange phenomena after arriving home in his car....

Third and final part of collaborative project Brise Glace. Directed by Raúl Ruíz....

The original 54-minute documentary, as broadcast by Channel Four on 20 June 1984, after which the animated links by the Quay Brothers were recompiled as a separate short....

This experimental short film follows a used car salesman... or a politician... or a man painting a toilet red....

A depressed man is told to make a cup of tea by his therapist....

A short experimental film that thematizes dreams and nightmares in a surrealistic way. The basis of the movie is found in the poetry created by the two directors, so the film partly seems like stringed lyrical motifs, open to arbitrary interpretation...

A space occupies it, awaiting to be unlocked by a freeing action or notion. What lies ahead is its determination....

Be better and more beautiful than you were before....

A boy walks into a field and stumbles upon a black hole....

The mind of a prisoner, expressed through various poetic stanzas, corrodes at the same rate as the house they are trapped in....

An unnamed character is walking home one day, and they see an unconscious body, once they decide to leave it, they start to gain this subconscious guilt. When they begin to confront this guilt, something uncanny comes with it....

Quinn is a burnt-out college student on the verge of a breakdown while seemingly trapped inside her major’s building. Losing faith in herself, she becomes encompassed in a battle of her mind as her alter ego presents her with a box and a choice to ma...

Life in the Atom was never completed but the existing version was digitally restored in 2009. The film depicts an ever-changing world inhabited by a man and woman engaged in surreal, erotic contortions. Their bodies are in a constant state of metamor...

Two lovers caught in a tragic relationship trying to hold onto the good times but is it too late?...

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Three segments displaying various forms of suicide. Ritualistic suicide, cutting & an overdose are shown with surrealist elements and disturbing results....

The Pink Umbrella Man has a cabin possessed when Bob Booze and his friends are driving up. Meanwhile detectivesMr. Dick and Mr. Head put themselves on the task of solving the mystery. 31 minutes of bugs, guts, breeze, pizza, subways, hats and other s...