Surreal cinema exists at the edges of logic, dream, and nightmare. It's an offshoot of a broader artistic movement that began after World War I, which focused on the expression of the unconscious.

The late, great David Lynch. Like all great surrealists, there’s absolutely no one who has as distinct a creative vision as David Lynch. One of the most popular surreal artists in mainstream pop ...

Off-Ramp host John Rabe's mercifully short film "The Vigil" screens Sunday night at the International Surrealist Film Festival. COME INSIDE for details, and join John and other more famous guests at ...

Martha Colburn, “Western Wild…or how I found wanderlust and met Old Shatterhand” (2017) (all images courtesy the artist) Martha Colburn uses myriad analog and lo-fi techniques including stop motion, ...

Jeremy has more than 2100 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

Experimental cinema can push boundaries, often to controversy, sometimes re-inventing the very medium itself. Still, while some have come to appreciate these films, they have resonated mainly with a ...

"Your anger and anxiety rule your life." A festival trailer has launched for a surreal, experimental short film titled Catharsis, from a new filmmaker named Brian Logvinsky. For those curious, this ...

When Lyla Hersh began writing the script for her senior thesis film, “On the Nature of Dreams,” the only thing she knew for sure was that it would take place in the late 1990s. Hersh didn’t write her ...

ChatGPT creator OpenAI has unveiled the first short films created using its new video AI tool Sora, with filmmakers describing the creations as “totally surreal”. OpenAI launched its new Sora system ...