Canadian auteur Guy Maddin has a number of strange films under his belt and is widely acclaimed in alt-film circles. My introduction to his work was Careful, a film set in a mountain village where no one can speak louder than a whisper for fear of avalanche and everyone is sexually repressed. The movie was an interesting blend of early silent film sets, lighting and early European animation. Odd and visually impressive enough to catch my jaded attention.
Sissy Boy Slap Party is at surface level about grown men slapping each other but you can read deeper into that. Homo erotic themes, check! Young African men playing the drums, check! He tells them no slapping but yet they do it anyway! Again, Guy pushes multiple early film styles but adds a ton of hyper-quick edits that become a tidal wave of slapping, crying and whining. Worth checking out.