films that feel like heightened "copy" of reality--or--a "copy of a copy"--or--a "copy" of a reality that never existed in…

Live-action films that blend reality and matte painting/backdrops/greenscreen or feel like they're in an elevated stage-play environment. The kind of…

*leslie knope voice* Formalism! More like fun-malism!

horror films that plays directly with the absurdity of life/genre*.

*with the caveat that all horror is intrinsically absurd**

**a…

Films that use the western milieu as a place of dread. "Traditional" westerns as well as modern or different takes…

Recent films and filmmakers that have really swung for the fences and WENT FOR IT... aka my version of the…

*with some "ambiguous time period" "our world but not our world" & "analogue scifi & alternate worlds " technically I guess...

**MY…

bad luck to kill a seabird...

***NOT an extensive list***

Just some notable ones for me personally...