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More stuff found on YouTube: an interesting sort-of-documentary of the Dada art movement. I saw this once in a film class at Emerson. I quite like how the documentary itself is formed in sort of a dada way, with odd and unexpected edits and sounds (including a voiceover breakdown midway through Part II).

Part I:

Part II:

Part III:

In a way you can kind of see where Terry Gilliam got his ideas...and speaking of things Python, I swear one of the voiceovers sounds like a silly-yet-restrained Terry Jones. :p

Experimental Films

While I'm on this art kick, here's some more interesting dada/surrealist/avant garde filmmaking I studied at Emerson...

Entr'acte, René Clair, 1924

Ballet Mechanique, Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy, 1924

Ghosts Before Breakfast, Hans Richter, 1928

Un Chien Andalou, Luis Buñuel, 1929
(Yes, this is the film that the Pixies song "Debaser" is about, and you may remember MTV using a colorized edit as a bumper at one point.)

Meshes of the Aternoon, Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, 1943

Prelude: Dog Star Man [first 9 minutes], Stan Brakhage, 1961
[The complete Dog Star Man lasts about 78 minutes and is in 5 parts...and a few years later Brakhage made an even longer version called The Art of Vision that lasted 270 minutes.]