Best Avant-garde / Experimental Films of 2003
Dogville
Set in a small ... farmer (Stellan Skarsgård). Eventually, Grace's standing in the town takes a downward shift as the search for her intensifies. [ best avant-garde / experimental films - 2003 ]
The Saddest Music in the World
Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin ... glass pair filled with beer. The Saddest Music in the World was shown at the 2003 Toronto Film Festival. [ best avant-garde / experimental films - 2003 ]
Anatomy of Hell
A lonely and dejected ... most unspeakable aspects of their sexuality will they have a pure understanding of how the sexes view one another. [ best avant-garde / experimental films - 2003 ]
Lightning Bolt: The Power of Salad
Lightning Bolt: The Power ... train as well as van in order to play in 19 different cities throughout the United States of America. [ best avant-garde / experimental films - 2003 ]
Bodysong
Simon Pummell's unique documentary ... by including pictures of disease, violence, and decay. The film includes a soundtrack recorded by Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead. [ best avant-garde / experimental films - 2003 ]
Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation: Full Frontal
Prepare for a heavy ... ever adorable Happy Tree Friends, this collection offers some of the most gleefully offensive cartoons ever committed to celluloid. [ best avant-garde / experimental films - 2003 ]
Cowards Bend the Knee
The wildly idiosyncratic Canadian ... where viewers watched the film in six-minute segments through peepholes; it was later released in a conventional full-screen version. [ best avant-garde / experimental films - 2003 ]
The Animatrix [Animated Series]
Raising the anticipation level ... The Second Renaissance Part 2 are pseudo-documentaries that reveal how the machines came to take control of the Earth. [ best avant-garde / experimental films - 2003 ]
Dancing
As co-directed by Xavier ... creepy photograph of two clowns that hangs in the facility, then becomes convinced that a spirit is haunting him. [ best avant-garde / experimental films - 2003 ]
The Residents: Eskimo
This release from Music ... half-dozen songs are "The Walrus Hunt," "A Spirit Steals a Child," "The Festival of Death," and "The Angry Anakok." [ best avant-garde / experimental films - 2003 ]
Greendale
The director of Greendale, ... (Sarah White) sets off on a life of social protest. Greendale was screened at the 2003 Toronto Film Festival. [ best avant-garde / experimental films - 2003 ]
Tarnation
In the making since ... Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Tarnation screened as part of the Frontier program at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. [ best avant-garde / experimental films - 2003 ]
Between Science and Garbage
Originally created in collaboration ... Hébert comes to home video thanks to the Animation/Youth Studio at the National Film Board of Canada's French Program. [ best avant-garde / experimental films - 2003 ]
Finisterre
Explore London from an ... punk fanzine editor Mark Perry, artist Julian Opie, and London-based author Shena Mackay discuss modern life in this city. [ best avant-garde / experimental films - 2003 ]
Unseen Cinema: Picturing a Metropolis
Unseen Cinema: Picturing a ... of archives. Some of these films have never been seen since their original exhibitions more than fifty years before. [ best avant-garde / experimental films - 2003 ]
