cinemadiso's - Top 10 Experimental Films List

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Breaking news from space! The bad: an intrepid captain and his men have landed on a planet where males are outlawed. The good: some women there are eager to break the law! Queen Of Outer Space is a milestone of movie camp.

Eric Fleming plays the granite-jawed leader who shares with his crew the crime of maleness. That's just the start of their troubles. The man-hating Venusian Queen (Laurie Mitchell) aims to destroy Earth once a Beta Disintegrator is operational. But a gossamer-gowned scientist (Zsa Zsa Gabor) and her curvy cohorts eye the men and they like what they see. This Bijou bauble has sets, costumes and effects from Flight To Mar, Forbidden Planet and World Without End. Have fun spotting them. Botchino!

One of the most unconventional and experimental films ever made, Wavelength is a structural film of a 45-minute long zoom in on a window over a period of a week.

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Voted the greatest documentary of all time in the 2014 'Sight and Sound' poll, Vertov's groundbreaking 'Man with a Movie Camera' uses an array of dazzling cinematic techniques to record the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that keep the city going.

Presented with Michael Nyman's celebrated score, this classic film is accompanied by an exciting selection of new extras, including Vertov's 'Three Songs of Lenin' and two of his radical mid-1920s documentary films, both of which feature equally radical new soundtracks by electronic experimentalists Mordant Music.

Un Chien Andalou is Bunuel's first film and collaboration with Salvador Dali, a surreal exploration of desire and passion. L'Age D'or is another collaboration with Dali, a surrealist dissection of civilised values.

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A beautiful young drug addict who is saved from the brink of death, Johanna (Orsolya Tóth) believes she has been touched by a divine grace. On becoming a nurse, she begins to cure the sick through a miraculous form of sexual healing.

It is not before long that this unconventional approach incurs the hate and derision of her fellow hospital staff, who brandish her as a whore. As they attempt to force her out, her patients, who see her as an angel, come to her protection.

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1933, America's deep south. Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard), her father and his gang of henchmen have left Dogville in search of somewhere new.

In the state of Alabama a chance encounter with a young black girl leads them to Manderlay - a plantation frozen in time where, behind locked gates, life in the cotton fields goes on as if slavery had never been abolished. For Grace the injustice is too much to bear and when her father decides to move on she stays behind determined to fight for the freedom of Manderlay's slaves...whether they want it or not.

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A young American man lost in Paris scratches out a living as a Michael Jackson look-alike. During a show in an old people's home Michael Jackson meets Marilyn Monroe and haunted by her angelic beauty he follows her to a commune in the Highlands, a place where everyone is famous and no-one gets old.

Here, The Pope, The Queen of England, Madonna, James Dean and other impersonators build a stage in the hope that the world will visit and watch them perform. Everything is beautiful until the world shifts, and reality intrudes on their utopian dream.

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Married with a kid, and now residing in his native Nashville, cinematic provocateur Harmony Korine show no signs of settling down.

Hailed as the future of American cinema by Werner Herzog, writer/ director Korine has blazed a trail with his consistently idiosyncratic output, including Kids, Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy and Mister Lonely. Trash Humpers sees him return to the big screen with an excoriating attack on the American Dream. A lo-fi production of white-heat intensity, Korine calls it, a new type of horror; palpable and raw. Trash Humpers follows a small gang of sinister 'elderly' peeping toms through the shadows of a nightmarishly familiar suburban landscape. Their shocking and sociopathic behaviour makes for unbearably compelling viewing that scorches itself onto the mind's eye. Come hang out at the crossroads of comedy and despair with Trash Humpers...

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Alain Resnais' latest film was widely recognised as being one of the most enjoyable and audacious films at last year's Cannes Film Festival. The film playfully examines the complications that ensue from the discovery by Georges of Marguerite's stolen purse.

This opens up the possibility for both of them to just follow their impulses heedlessly, that eventually leads to the much-discussed surprise ending.

Grieving for the loss of their infant son, a couple (Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg) retreat to the solace of their remote woodland cabin to repair their troubled marriage. But once there, nature itself turns against them and a terrifying journey into violence and chaos begins.