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Hyperreality
see all genres ›Setting aside “good taste” for better flavor, the cult film gains its name from the cult-like following it can inspire. Ritualistic midnight screenings are historically crucial ingredients for a film cult to develop. Cohering around particular directors, actors, genres and subcultures, the cult film manages to entertain via nostalgia long after the “use by” date has passed.
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Genres / Cult / Hyperreality
SUB-GENRES · Pseudo-pseudodocumentary · Shockumentary
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The Acrobatic Fly
The challenge of the very slow lens required by F. Percy Smith for macro-photography, coupled with the insensitive film stock of the day, meant that so much light was required for exposure that the poor flies quickly succumbed to the heat. As Smith had glued their wings so that they could not fly away,...Start your free trial to watch
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The Bell Rang to an Empty Sky
THE BELL RANG TO AN EMPTY SKY has taken one of the many tragedies buried in American history which befell the American Indian and, through the voice of Dennis Banks, creates a tight and perceptive visual and aural telling and interpretation of events. The selection of images (the iconography and meaning,...Start your free trial to watch
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Blue Parrot
In a long career that has moved from film to digital and from long form to (increasingly) short form, experimental filmmaker Walter Ungerer's BLUE PARROT finds him transitioning into the existential present with a vengeance. BLUE PARROT's title character has a only a few seconds of screen time as Ungerer offers an...Start your free trial to watch
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Brutes and Savages
Fascinated by forbidden rituals and ceremonies, world explorer Arthur Davis takes a crew with hidden cameras to Africa and South America to secretly record the beauty and horror of the law of the jungle. BRUTES AND SAVAGES is the filmed document of his death-defying adventures. Shocking, brutal and...Start your free trial to watch
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Budo
Filmed entirely in Japan, BUDO: THE ART OF KILLING is a highly acclaimed documentary and a favorite of martial arts practitioners and fans alike. Highlighting the various techniques of “Budo” (Karate, Judo, Aikido and so forth), this action-packed film is a visual feast exploring the spiritual and historical traditions,...Start your free trial to watch
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Buskers
In his directorial debut, Chad Taylor, the renowned Venice Beach chainsaw juggler, has created a one-of-a-kind documentary that goes deep inside the hidden world of street performers. Amid raw footage of the most shocking and inspired street acts from around the world, one performer after another pulls back the makeshift...Start your free trial to watch
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Chariots of the Gods
"Fifty million stars in our galaxy have the potential of supporting life forms capable of traveling to other planets," says world-renowned authority Erich von Daniken, whose film version of his best-selling book, CHARIOTS OF THE GODS, gives stunning visual proof that some form of life from outer space...Start your free trial to watch
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Chiseen
An insane anthology of some of Hong Kong's biggest stars and friends performing stomach-churning, neck-breaking and (at times) some of the stupidest acts possible! This crazy combination of daredevil tribute to JACKASS and FEAR FACTOR will leave you cringing, crying and hysterical with disbelief! The main CHISEEN crew are...Start your free trial to watch
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Commissioner of Sewers
COMMISSIONER OF SEWERS combines interview and archival material, paintings and clips of William S. Burroughs' film appearances (including DECODER and Gus Van Sant's DRUGSTORE COWBOYS and THANKSGIVING PRAYER) with footage from Burroughs' last European reading in Berlin on May 9th, 1986 to create a witty and...Start your free trial to watch
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Commute
A key figure at the inception of San Francisco avant-garde film in the 1960s, Bruce Baillie finds beauty in the everyday, even challenging the notion that there is anything "avant-garde" about recording the world as it is. Baillie, in cartoonish drag, badly lipsynchs an overture to COMMUTE, mocking the viewer with the Cole...Start your free trial to watch
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Congolaise
This fascinating documentary was made in conjunction with a group of French scientists who spent fourteen months traveling along the Ogowe (aka Ogooue) River in central Africa, recording and studying timeless tribal lifestyles en route that were likely to confront modernity all too soon. The U.S. version starts out in typical...Start your free trial to watch
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Cuban Rebel Girls
No one would likely ever claim that CUBAN REBEL GIRLS is a good film. The title, alone, should be a bit of a giveaway. But it is a fascinating story, regardless. This curious effort was the final film by actor (and, in this case, writer) Errol Flynn. Flynn portrays a war correspondent in Cuba intent on...Start your free trial to watch
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Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Buckle up for DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, the acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 9/11. We meet the romantic skyjackers who fought their revolutions and won airtime on the passenger planes of the 1960s and 1970s. By the 1990s, such characters were apparently no more, replaced on our TV screens...Start your free trial to watch
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Doin' Time in Times Square
Described as the home video from hell, DOIN' TIME IN TIMES SQUARE documents the view and action outside director Charlie Ahearn's 43rd Street apartment window from 1981 to 1983. Charlie Ahearn, whose 1983 film WILD STYLE was a cult hip hop hit, was "blessed" with a generous view of the sleeze emporiums up...Start your free trial to watch
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Double Take
An Official Selection at both the Berlin and Sundance Film Festivals, Johan Grimonprez's DOUBLE TAKE is a unique film that combines early 60's advertising, hysterical Red Menace newsreels and Alfred Hitchcock (featuring his hilarious introductions to his TV show and movies, and interviews with actual Hitchcock impersonator...Start your free trial to watch
