5: Highly experimental, unconventional and abstract films

The event horizon of normalcy, notability and digestability; even knowledgeable and sophisticated cinephiles won't know much here. The films may be very obscure and unknown but sophisticated gems with very specificand high-brow aims. Pacing as we know it is thrown out the window. Character development and plot progression may be done in a way not readily indertandable in normal film terms

Alejandro Jodorowsky (Chile) - Kidlat Tahimik (Philippines) - Kenneth Anger (USA) - Catherine Breillat (France) - Andy Warhol (USA) - Sergei Parajanov (URSS) - Jacques Rivette (France) - Storm de Hirsch (?) - Viking Eggeling (Sweden) - Mamoru Oshii (Japan) - Michael Snow (Canada) - Stan Brakhage (USA) - Paul Sharits (USA) - Dimitri Kirsanoff (Estonia)