• I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  • Mirror
  • A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
  • A Serious Man
  • Paterson

mundane surrealism

Films that focus on the surreal aspects of mundane life, or stylistically enhance the mundane aspects of life to make them…

  • A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
  • L'Argent
  • Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
  • Columbus
  • The Farewell

still life

Films that keep camera movement to a minimum and let moments breath. 

Stillness on a more formalistic level. A tendency towards…

  • House
  • The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
  • The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
  • Poor Things
  • The Twentieth Century

fabricated reality (matte painting, miniatures, stagecraft, greenscreen)

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…

  • Rabbits
  • Persona
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Being John Malkovich
  • The Lobster
  • A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
  • You, the Living
  • About Endlessness