A friend and I are going to be watching a sh!t ton of art films without the influence of drugs (which we dont do) just for the WTF factor
We are already planning to watch:
El Topo
Holy Mountain
Santa Sangre
Trash Humpers
Eraserhead
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Pinnochio 964
Rubber's Love
Waking Life
Any others?
I've already seen House, Fantastic Planet, and The Wall
It depends to an extent on what you see as surreal and Art film.
A lot of the time its about directors, so you could add most other David Lynch films to the list.
Derek Jarman (Jubilee at least).
About half of Cronenburg's atuff: Videodrome, maybe eXistenz, The Naked lunch.
More arty than surreal with Peter Greenaway -- Drowning by Numbers, A Zed and Two noughts. His better known films even (e.g. The Cook, The Thief, his Wife and her lover).
More recent stuff you might have already seen as they are better known, but should be on the list: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich for two.
Most Terry Gilliam films are seen as mainstream, but many would hit a lot of the right buttons: Brazil for sure, Maybe Time Bandits or even 12 Monkeys (Forgot Fear and Loathing).
Trash Humpers is a good one because first time I watched it, it scared the living sh.t out of me, but watching it again, it's tremendous amounts of fun, it was very funny. Korine is a genius. House and Fantastic Planet are amazing too.
But anyway, you should check out Holy Motors, Rubber (it's about a killer car tire), Lost River (people seem to hate that film, but I adore it), I also recently saw Beyond the Black Rainbow which is dope, but it's one of the slowest films I've seen. You could check out The End of Evangelion, it's probably one of the best animated films ever, but you need to watch the Neon Genesis Evangelion show to get it fully and even then it's a total mindf.ck. Definitely check out Lisztomania by Ken Russel, it's like a Monty Python film on acid. Zero Theorem is also a good one, though that one is not really abstract, just very weird and surreal visually, but it does tell a proper, three act structure story. Maybe check out Antichrist by Lars von Trier. Delicatessen and City of Lost Children are pretty similar to Zero Theorem too, very surreal and stylized but still a proper, three act film.
I started a thread not too long ago with the same subject, you could check that out, people came up with some great suggestions there.
http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000007/thread/247308188?p=1
Hope you have fun mate!
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