Raise Ravens and They Will Pick Your Eyes Out

While a great many films address and endorse resistance to autocratic repression, those in this series go deeper than this surface level insubordination—through the use of metafictional tactics, narrative fragmentation, and other forms of self-conscious cinematic experimentation, these are works that build nonconformity to and creative defiance of authoritarian, audience manipulating commercial cinema and the power structures it serves into their very DNA. A globe-trotting, panoramic survey of modes of artistic noncompliance with power, featuring films that frustrated censors from Franco’s Spain to Iran to the former USSR to post-military coup-d’état Brazil.