Exquisite Corpse / 2010

A medical student (Steve Sandvoss) is working on a research project and discovers that he is able to reanimate recently-deceased mice. He takes a break from his work to go on a trip with three friends. He admits to his friend Sophia (Nicole Vicius) that he loves her – but shortly after this she falls into a nearby lake and drowns. Using the methods from his research project he is able to revive her, but the process requires that he extract the hormone Oxytocin from a recently-dead corpse. He murders two women, and attempts to murder a third, in the process of keeping Sophia alive. His actions arouse the suspicion of his friends and the campus police. In a twist at the end of the film, Sophia remembers the circumstances of her death, which changes the audience’s perceptions of the actions of one of the main characters in the story

Exquisite Corpse / 1978

The "exquisite corpse" named in the title of this piece refers to a favorite game of the Surrealists, played by passing a folded sheet of paper among a group; each person draws one section of a body on the folded segment without looking at the other sides. What was done with pen and paper, Gusella accomplishes electronically using the VideoLab. Utilizing quick, voltage-controlled live switching between two cameras, Gusella approximates composite images. For examples, his torso appears to combine with a close-up of his face. The perceptual effect is mesmerizing and disorienting.

Exquisite Corpse / 2018

Exquisite Corpse was an image and language parlour game played by the Surrealists, which asked players to collectively write or draw a story or picture, with only limited knowledge of the other players’ contributions. Translating the original game into an immersive VR experience creating a composite human body, Exquisite Corpse maintains the rules of the game with artists and filmmakers contributing, each with no knowledge of the others’ work beyond which body part they were representing, with complete artistic freedom.

Exquisite Corpse /

Follows Del Berham, a fairly average mechanic who is fascinated with children's books, through his everyday life in a small Iowan town. Separately written scenes play in random order, so Del's perceived character can change with every viewing. Consisting of 26 scenes on one DVD, the movie delivers 4.03 x 10^26 possible orders resulting in a non-linear film with a variable narrative logic.

Exquisite Corpse / 2017

The Los Angeles River is 51 miles long, and in Exquisite Corpse it takes 51 minutes to follow the river from its start at the San Fernando Valley to the mouth of the Pacific Ocean. A colourful ode to the people, animals and plants along the L.A. River.

Exquisite Corpse / 2021

These are the eight volatile guises of Lilac, an isolated novelist deep in the existential throes of writer’s block.

Exquisite Corpse / 2024

Exquisite Corpse Trilogy / 2023

Exquisite Corpses / 1989

An attractive young cowboy, new to the city meets a gay casting agent.

The Exquisite Corpse / 1992

The Exquisite Corpse is an exciting and unique collaborative film project, involving a group of eleven filmmakers contributing different segments in one movie. The linkage of the individual segments was achieved by applying an old game used by Surrealist artists in the 1920's to explore the collective imagination. That game, called "Exquisite Corpse", was first applied in literary form by a group of poets each supplying one line of the total poem. In drawing, a group of artists would take turns drawing one part of a human figure, without seeing what the others had contributed.

Exquisite Moving Corpse / 2022

The Surrealist, "Exquisite Corpse" was a French Café parlor game. "Exquisite Moving Corpse" is more of an artist chain letter. 60 artists participated over a two-year period, beginning in March 2020. Each invited artist made a one minute video in response to the last frame of the previous minute.

Exquisite Corpse 1 / 2022

First chapter of Exquisite Corpse Trilogy project.

Film-Landscape-People: an Exquisite Corpse / 2008

Exquisite Corpse: 100ft of film, exposed three times and hand-processed in one day. This in-camera triptych documents the landscape, people and filmmaking process at Phil Hoffman's legendary experimental film camp.

The Exquisite Moving Corpse /

In planning The Exquisite Moving Corpse, decisions were made to alter the methodology from a drawing strategy and apply it to film, specifically each invited artist would make a one-minute film based on the last frame of the previous minute. [Overview Courtesy of Liz Flyntz via Microscope Gallery]

The Exquisite Corpse Project / 2012

In this first-of-its-kind crossover comedy, director Ben Popik brings together five comedy writers, and surprises them with a challenge: to each write fifteen pages of a movie, having read only the previous five pages of the script. They agree with one stipulation: If they write the movie, he has to make it. It's a comedy, a love story, a psycho-sexual thriller, and a supernatural adventure all in one. Meanwhile, documentary footage of the writing process provides an inside look into the often-hilarious creative process, as well as the group dynamics that make collaboration between friends difficult.

Fully Loaded Gun: An Exquisite Corpse / 2023

Pseudo-realist improvisational docu-narrative about the day in the life of a group of teenagers.

Exquisite Corpse / 2021

While her girlfriend is in the hospital in a coma state after find her floating in the bathtub without vital signs, Clara stars on a path of physical and psychological transformation, with the goal of possessing her in some way.

Little Minx Exquisite Corpse: Rope a Dope / 2008

A 10-year-old girl goes head-to-head with a professional boxer in a jump rope contest.

Exquisite Corpse / 2013

An eight-year-old girl is fascinated by the exquisite corpse of a young woman she finds in the woods.

Exquisite Corpse / 2011

In a series of seemingly disjointed vignettes, including an extensive look into the lives of local transgender sex workers, “El Cadaver Exquisito” juxtaposes unscripted everyday rituals with staged dream sequences to provide social commentary on violence in El Salvador, especially against women.