Revolutionary, abstract, absurd, personal, weird, wild, intimate, expansive: experimental film is its own gorgeous family of beautiful strangers, connected by their unique artistic outputs in a world where the rules don’t matter and Hollywood has no sway. This Showdown celebrates essential experimental films and their extraordinary creators; all the assemblage and montage, direct-painting and reality-breaking, light-dancing and dialog-twisting, avant-garde and extraordinary-ordinary techniques. List the ten most essential experimental works that have moved you or changed your world view. (Rest in peace, Eli.)
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