Chaotic Cinema

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I came across an interesting, self-proclaimed Chaotic Cinema list on Letterboxd of over 2,600 surreal/experimental/cult/horror films and wanted to transport it here. But inputting all those films was an enormous task, and gigantic ICM lists are always so cumbersome to load and use. So, I compromised and only entered the films I haven't seen. Which initially amounted to just about half of them. This makes the list less useful to others, but it's certainly SOME use to other fans of this warped cinematic realm. If nothing else, you can gloat about whichever films you've seen and I haven't!

Inputting this list also led to importing multiple films to the ICM database. But unfortunately, there was also a surprising number of films that don't even have IMDb pages:

A Vessel, the Ideas Pass Through 2021 / AAA AAA 1978 / Artificial Light x20 1969 / Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth 2012 / Avant Coureur/Raster Relief 1983 / Chasse des Touches 1959 / Cinema Is a Mosaic Made of Time 1984 / Circumcision of Participant Observation 2013 / Conditions 2014 / Dead Dance 2009 / Diignus Vindice Nodus 1982 / Double 2001, a.k.a. Bunshin / Earth Pulse 1975 / Embodiment of Darkness 2018 / Epiphany 1984 / Excavations 1979 / Forbidden Symmetries 2014 / Geflecht 1976 / General Motors 1976 / Gewebe 1976 / He Walked Away 2006 / Highbushes Burning 2018 / Hollis Well 2012 / Horror Film 1 1971 / I Am Making Art 1971 / I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art 1971 / Intercourse With... 1978 / Lanzarote 2014 / Levitation 1972 / Light of the Body 2004 / Love Reinvented 1979, a.k.a. L'Amour Réinventé / Magic Mirror 2013 / Measures of Volatility 1979 / Moonblack 1968 / My Very Beautiful Movie 1974 / Number Two 2019 / Paul Sharits Interview with Gerard O'Grady 1976 / Performance of Video Imaging Tools 1970-1978 (a compilation of 17 video clips by various directors) / Phenomenon 2019 / Pictures of the Lost 1978 / Precession of the Simulacra 1992 / Primarily Speaking 1983 / Primary Time 1974 / Quarry 2015 / R-G-B 1974 / Relation in Time 1977 / Reverberlin 2006 / Scan Processor Studies 1973 / Script 1974 / Set of Co-incidence 1974 / Songs for Synthesized Soprano 1990 / Spinout 1983 / Teaching a Plant the Alphabet 1972 / Ten Years in the Sun 2015 / The 92 Faces of Peter Greenaway 2002 / The Dream of the Little Dancing Men 1997 / The Extinct Suite 2017 / The Loner 1980 / The Matter Propounded, of Its Possibility and Impossibility, Treated in Four Parts 2011 / The Poacher Woman of the Montafon 2011 / The Seismic Form 2020 / Theme Song 1973 / U-Barn 1968 / Unbalance 2006 / Up to and Including Her Limits 1976 / Weird Weird Movie Kids Do Not Watch the Movie 2013 / Why Do Things Get in a Muddle? (Come On Petunia) 1984 / Wilderness Series 2016

I'm going to create IMDb pages for as many of these films as my patience allows -- we'll see how I do. I believe I'm up to 145 adds now. I'll delete titles from the above block of text as I add them to ICM.

I continue to remove films that I see. The list initially was 1,108 films but is much smaller now. But there's an extra wrinkle: The Letterboxd user continues to expand the list, so I'm adding films as well as subtracting them.

PS Two substantial misgivings about this list: 1) Too many trashy horror movies included, just because they're gory or shocking. 2) The list's creator has a creepy fetish about arty women in film. Especially Tilda Swinton -- he runs Facebook pages about her and apparently hoards hundreds of photos of her. And this kink infects the list, which has loads of marginal, female-directed films and, of course, extra Swinton films. He's fixated on Cate Blanchett too.

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  1. 51 +1

    ...Artemis..8..1....

    1981, in 0 top lists Check
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    ...ere erera baleibu izik subua aruaren...

    1970, in 2 top lists Check
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    1

    2009, in 0 top lists Check
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    1000 Könige

    2019 — a.k.a. 1000 Kings, in 0 top lists
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    12-gatsu no kakurenbo

    1993 — a.k.a. December Hide-and-Seek, in 0 top lists Check
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    13 Sins

    2014, in 0 top lists Check
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    3x3D

    2013, in 0 top lists Check
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    The 4th Life

    2006, in 0 top lists
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    71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls

    1994 — a.k.a. 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance, in 3 top lists Check
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    964 Pinocchio

    1991 — a.k.a. Screams of Blasphemy, in 0 top lists Check
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    Aaaaaaaah!

    2015, in 0 top lists Check
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    The ABCs of Death

    2012, in 0 top lists Check
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    ABCs of Death 2

    2014, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Acid Eaters

    1968, in 0 top lists Check
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    Adieu Babylone

    2001, in 0 top lists Check
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    Adrénaline

    1990, in 0 top lists Check
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    After Midnight

    1989, in 0 top lists Check
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    Ai no mukidashi

    2008 — a.k.a. Love Exposure, in 3 top lists Check
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    Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu

    2001 — a.k.a. Warm Water Under a Red Bridge, in 1 top list Check
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    Akran

    1969, in 1 top list Check
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    All the Vermeers in New York

    1990, in 0 top lists Check
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    Altiplano

    2009, in 0 top lists Check
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    Alucarda, la hija de las tinieblas

    1977 — a.k.a. Alucarda, in 1 top list Check
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    Les amants criminels

    1999 — a.k.a. Criminal Lovers, in 0 top lists Check
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    Amateur

    1994, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Ambulance

    1990, in 0 top lists Check
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    American Falls

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    American Perfekt

    1997, in 0 top lists Check
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    Andrey Tarkovsky in Nostalghia

    1984, in 0 top lists Check
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    Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer

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    Ang pamilyang kumakain ng lupa

    2005 — a.k.a. The Family That Eats Soil, in 0 top lists Check
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    Angel Mine

    1978, in 0 top lists Check
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    Ángeles y querubines

    1972 — a.k.a. Angels and Cherubs, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Angelic Conversation

    1985, in 0 top lists Check
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    Angelus

    2000, in 0 top lists Check
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    Angustia

    1987 — a.k.a. Anguish, in 2 top lists Check
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    Anti-Clock

    1979, in 0 top lists Check
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    Antibirth

    2016, in 0 top lists Check
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    Anticlimax

    1973, in 0 top lists Check
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    Antropophagus

    1980 — a.k.a. Anthropophagus: The Grim Reaper, in 1 top list Check
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    Apartment Zero

    1988, in 1 top list Check
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    The Appointment

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
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    Arcana

    1972, in 0 top lists Check
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    Arena: Art and Design: 'The Journey' or The...

    1978, in 0 top lists
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    Arrombada - Vou Mijar na Porra do Seu Túmulo

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Art of Vision

    1965, in 2 top lists Check
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    As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief...

    2000, in 6 top lists Check
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    Ashug-Karibi

    1988 — a.k.a. Ashik Kerib, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Astrum Argentium

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