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. 208 +2

    Le film est déjà commencé?

    1951, in 0 top lists Check
  2. 608 +12

    Traité de bave et d'éternité

    1951 — a.k.a. Venom and Eternity, in 1 top list Check
  3. 321 +5

    Number 9

    1954, in 0 top lists Check
  4. 457 +8

    El barón del terror

    1962 — a.k.a. The Brainiac, in 0 top lists Check
  5. 322 +5

    Normal Love

    1963 — a.k.a. Normal Fantasy, in 0 top lists Check
  6. 747 +21

    Divinations

    1964, in 0 top lists
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  7. 160 +2

    Empire

    1964, in 5 top lists Check
  8. 55 +1

    À Meia Noite Levarei Sua Alma

    1964 — a.k.a. At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul, in 2 top lists Check
  9. 400 +6

    Sleep

    1964, in 1 top list Check
  10. 451 +8

    The Art of Vision

    1965, in 2 top lists Check
  11. 115 +2

    Dali in New York

    1965, in 0 top lists Check
  12. 146 +2

    Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

    1965 — a.k.a. The Blood Suckers, in 1 top list Check
  13. 553 +10

    La guerre est finie

    1966 — a.k.a. The War Is Over, in 3 top lists Check
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    Molinier

    1966, in 0 top lists
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  15. 66 +1

    Bliss

    1967, in 0 top lists Check
  16. 135 +2

    Die widerrechtliche Ausübung der Astronomie

    1967, in 0 top lists Check
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    Esta Noite Encarnarei no Teu Cadáver

    1967 — a.k.a. This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse, in 2 top lists Check
  18. 490 +9

    The Illiac Passion

    1967, in 1 top list Check
  19. 216 +3

    L'harem

    1967 — a.k.a. Her Harem, in 0 top lists Check
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    Une saison chez les hommes

    1967, in 0 top lists
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    The Shuttered Room

    1967 — a.k.a. Blood Island, in 0 top lists Check
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    Snows

    1967, in 0 top lists
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    Torture Garden

    1967, in 0 top lists Check
  24. 446 +7

    The Acid Eaters

    1968, in 0 top lists Check
  25. 453 +8

    The Birthday Party

    1968, in 0 top lists Check
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    Curse of the Crimson Altar

    1968 — a.k.a. The Crimson Cult, in 0 top lists Check
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    Deux fois

    1968 — a.k.a. Twice Upon a Time, in 1 top list Check
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    Ida y vuelta

    1968, in 0 top lists Check
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    Mare's Tail

    1968, in 0 top lists Check
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    Morte all'orecchio di Van Gogh

    1968, in 0 top lists
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    Nostra signora dei turchi

    1968 — a.k.a. Our Lady of the Turks, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Wind Is Driving Him Toward the Open Sea

    1968, in 0 top lists Check
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    Akran

    1969, in 1 top list Check
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    Capricci

    1969, in 1 top list Check
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    Eika Katappa

    1969, in 1 top list Check
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    Goto, l'île d'amour

    1969 — a.k.a. Goto, Island of Love, in 1 top list Check
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    H2S

    1969, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Illustrated Man

    1969, in 0 top lists Check
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    Nocturno 29

    1969 — a.k.a. Nocturne 29, in 0 top lists Check
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    Paris n'existe pas

    1969 — a.k.a. Paris Does Not Exist, in 0 top lists Check
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    Il seme dell'uomo

    1969 — a.k.a. The Seed of Man, in 0 top lists Check
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    Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

    1969, in 5 top lists Check
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    ...ere erera baleibu izik subua aruaren...

    1970, in 2 top lists Check
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    A Casing Shelved

    1970, in 1 top list
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    Ceci ne serait pas une pipe

    1970, in 0 top lists Check
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    Copacabana Mon Amour

    1970, in 0 top lists Check
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    Don Giovanni

    1970, in 1 top list Check
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    Un, dos, tres, al escondite inglés

    1970, in 0 top lists Check
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    Film Portrait

    1970, in 3 top lists Check
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    Five Filosophical Fables

    1970, in 0 top lists Check
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