Tracing the thread…
Pioneer of Surrealism who fragmented narrative and reality itself, creating disjointed dream-logic films that embody the exquisite corpse's collaborative absurdity.
David Lynch United StatesMaster of fractured storytelling and non-linear narratives that piece together disconnected images and scenes like a visual exquisite corpse, creating unsettling emergent meaning.
Pier Paolo Pasolini ItalyConstructed films from disparate cultural fragments, literary references, and violent juxtapositions that function as artistic assemblages of incompatible elements unified through transgressive vision.