Surreal cinema exists at the edges of logic, dream, and nightmare. It's an offshoot of a broader artistic movement that began after World War I, which focused on the expression of the unconscious.

The late, great David Lynch. Like all great surrealists, there’s absolutely no one who has as distinct a creative vision as David Lynch. One of the most popular surreal artists in mainstream pop ...

Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...

Matthew Rankin’s second feature is something of an anomaly on this year’s Oscar shortlist for International Feature Film. For one thing, it takes place in a world that doesn’t actually exist, positing ...

Jeremy has more than 2200 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

Have you ever watched anything and thought the world it presented didn't exist in reality, but also you had no idea how to describe where it actually exists? That's how I feel about surrealism in film ...

When Lyla Hersh began writing the script for her senior thesis film, “On the Nature of Dreams,” the only thing she knew for sure was that it would take place in the late 1990s. Hersh didn’t write her ...

Surrealism is pretty well debased these days. Lincoln and a beaver are shilling for a big pharmaceutical company, selling sleeping pills and warning an insomniac nation, "Your dreams miss you." A ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Lynch imbued so much dream logic into his movies and TV shows nearly his entire body of work ...

Damian Mc Carthy knocked our socks off with his 2024 breakout feature Oddity. The flick, which is a harrowing and intense effort, garnered praise from critics and fans alike, cementing the director as ...