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GoddamUnvoicedAbbot — 15 years ago(January 24, 2011 12:38 AM)

  1. Alejandro Jodorowsky
  2. David Lynch
  3. Roy Andersson
  4. Alain Resnais
  5. Luis Bunuel
    Antiparanoia is the eerie feeling that nothing is connected to anything else
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Makino Takashi - is the new trend
Nunca comboio, sempre trem - jd
Nothing is 'universally acclaimed' OldAle1

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James Benning
Jon Jost

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Only one I can think of that hasn't been mentioned is Man Ray.
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Guy Maddin
the Wachowskis (I haven't seen Jupiter Ascending, but Speed Racer forged its own new style in visuals and editing)
Alfonso Cuaron

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Jean-Marie Straub
Nagisa Oshima
Michael Snow

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  1. Ingmar Bergman
  2. David Lynch
    Volker Flenske: (While torturing David) I don't know why you're doing this to yourself!
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Stan Brakhage
E. Elias Merhige
Kenneth Anger
Isidore Isou
Guy Debord
Jean Cocteau
Jonas Mekas
Marie Menken
Sidney Peterson
James Broughton
James Sibley Watson
Dimitri Kirsanoff
David Lynch
Man Ray
Marcel Duchamp
Maya Deren
Willard Maas
Andy Warhol
Ron Fricke
Godfrey Reggio
Terrence Malick
Abyssus Abyssum Invocat

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Kenneth Anger
Andy Warhol
Godfrey Reggio
I would say that Tarkovsy is experimental. He may not be anything too crazy now, because his style has influenced so many people, but I would say that back then he was rather earth-shattering.

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Stan Brakhage
Matthew Barney
Disco sucks, kill all hippies. Pretty vacant, eh? Subvert normality. Signing off.

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in addition to the ones you've mentioned:
6. peter greenaway
7. the brothers quay
8. don hertzfeldt
9. harmony korine
honorable mention: lars von trier. he doesn't stray from traditional narratives, but he's reinvented his process so many times (with a lot of hits and misses along the way) that i find something admirable about his work.

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I would say yes. His use of the long take was revolutionary back when Rublev was released. Tarkovsky and other Russian directors (German, Konchalovsky, Mikhalkov, Klimov, Sheptiko) were against Soviet Montage, and wanted to extend cinematic moments beyond mere seconds, or fractions of seconds.

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No, generally he's admitted as film theorist who was mainly captivated with metaphysical themes but at this time his method of approach was dialectical. We can't say for each director who disclaims conventionalism that he's experimental.

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Is Tarkovsky considered Experimental?

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