Have you ever watched anything and thought the world it presented didn't exist in reality, but also you had no idea how to describe where it actually exists? That's how I feel about surrealism in film ...

Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...

If Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel hadn’t choked Salvador Dalí’s ladyfriend at that dinner party, film history would have played out differently. But hey, these things happen. The throttling was, quite ...

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 ...

Jim Jarmusch is known for his deadpan films that feature oddball characters and ask big existential questions. Among his best-known works in this vein are Stranger than Paradise (1984), a ...

Casting for a 10-minute comedy/drama with magical surrealism elements. Synopsis: a shy woman, Delphine is the sole carer to her eccentric and bed-bound mother, Pearl and spends a lot of time lost in ...

In the Brazilian-made Best Picture nominee The Secret Agent, set in that country’s authoritarian 1970s, a pungent sequence features an animated amputated leg, acting as a surreal “stand-in” for police ...