introducing: an 'organized', semi-coherent melting pot of weird fiction, speculative fiction, and magical realism sprinkled with dashes of horror, suspense, mystery, fantasy, sci-fi, surrealism, absurdism, and creative nonfiction. given how antithesis it is to my mixed beliefs about the artifice of genre, these recommendations are separated and categorized primarily by how they make me feel and are ordered alphabetically by title!

identification key: some content listed below will be indicated with more than one symbol to indicate the work in question being categorically two types of media (such as animated film and television or graphic novels that are also serialized)📖 - book or novel
🍃 - poems and poetry collections
📄 - papers, essays, articles, speeches, and other text
📽 - film or movie
📺 - television series
🎞 - animation (paired with other symbols)
📙 - short story or anthology
📚 - printed serial such as a book series
🎭 - play, musical, stageplay, or other theatrical production
🗞 - comic, manga, or graphic novel
💻 - web-based content, such as an article, webcomic, or website
🎙 - podcast or radio show
🎮 - videogames (including computer games)
📱 - mobile game or interactive app

soft. touching. heartwarming.

- 17776 by Jon Bois, 2017 💻
- 20020 by Jon Bois, 2020 💻
- Big Fish, 2003, dir. Tim Burton 📽
- Boy, 2010, dir. Taika Waititi 📽
- Bluets by Maggie Nelson, 2009 🍃📖
- The Cat Returns, 2002, dir. Hiroyuki Morita 🎞📽
- Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, 1952 📖
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977, dir. Steven Spielberg 📽
- Dear Jenny, We Are All Find by Jenny Zhang, 2012 🍃📖
- Fantasia, 1940, dir. David Hand, James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ben Sharpsteen, William Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Hamilton Luske, Jim Handley, Ford Beebe, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, and Norman Ferguson 🎞📽
- Fantasia 2000, 1999, dir. James Algar, Don Hahn, Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Eric Goldberg, Hendel Butoy, Francis Glebas, and Pixote Hunt 🎞📽
- Fantastic Mr. Fox, 2009, dir. Wes Anderson 🎞📽
- Forrest Gump, 1994, dir. Robert Zemeckis 📽
- The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald, 1998 📖
- The Girl who Leapt Through Time, 2006, dir. Mamoru Hosoda 📽
- Good Will Hunting, 1997, dir. Gus Van Sant 📽
- The Grand Budapest Hotel, 2014, dir. Wes Anderson 📽
- Groundhog Day, 1993, dir. Harold Ramis 📽
- Hilda, 2018 🎞📺
- Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, 1986 📚
- Howl's Moving Castle, 2004, dir. Hayao Miyazaki 🎞📽
- Hunt for the Wilderpeople, 2016, dir. Taika Waititi 📽
- Isle of Dogs, 2018, dir. Wes Anderson 🎞📽
- Infinity Train by Owen Dennis, 2019 🎞📺
- The Iron Giant, 1999, dir. Brad Bird 📽
- The Iron Man by Ted Hughes, 1968 📖
- Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, 2020 🎞📺
- Kiki's Delivery Service, 1989, dir. Hayao Miyazaki 🎞📽
- Lady Bird, 2017, dir. Greta Gerwig 📽
- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, 2004, dir. Wes Anderson 📽
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943 📖
- The Little Prince, 2015, dir. Mark Osborne 🎞📽
- Lost Terminal by Namtao, 2020 🎙
- Maniac, 2018 📺
- Mirai no Mirai, 2018, dir. Mamoru Hosoda 🎞📽
- Mob Psycho 100, 2016 🗞🎞📺
- A Monster in Paris, 2011, dir. Bibo Bergerson 🎞📽
- My Baby First Birthday by Jenny Zhang, 2020 🍃📖
- My Neighbor Totoro, 1988, dir. Hayao Miyazaki 🎞📽
- My Neighbors the Yamadas, 1999, dir. Isao Takahata 🎞📽
- Only Yesterday, 1991, dir. Isao Takahata 🎞📽
- Paperman, 2012, dir. John Kahrs 🎞📽
- Patience (After Sebald), 2012, dir. Grant Gee 📽
- Ponyo, 2008, dir. Hayao Miyazaki 🎞📽
- Porco Rosso, 1992, dir. Hayao Miyazaki 🎞📽
- Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman, 1995 📚
- Practical Magic, 1998, dir. Griffin Dunne 📽
- Prince of Egypt, 1998, dir. Simon Wells, Steve Hickner, and Brenda Chapman 🎞📽
- The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald, 1999 📖
- The Secret World of Arrietty, 2010, dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi 🎞📽
- The Snowman, 1982, dir. Jimmy T. Murakami and Dianne Jackson 🎞📽
- Song of the Sea, 2014, dir. Tomm Moore 🎞📽
- Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang, 2017 📙📖
- Starbot by J, 2014 🎮
- Summer Wars, 2009, dir. Mamoru Hosoda 🎞📽
- Spirited Away, 2001, dir. Hayao Miyazaki 🎞📽
- This Planet Needs a Name by Evan Tess Murray and Trace Callahan, 2019 🎙
- Three Bedrooms in Manhattan by Georges Simenon, 1946 📖
- Wall-E, 2008, dir. Andrew Stanton 🎞📽
- Whale Rider, 2002, dir. Niki Caro 📽
- World of Tomorrow, 2015, dir. Don Hertzfeldt 🎞📽
- Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō, 1995 🗞🎞📺
- Your Name., 2016, dir. Makoto Shinkai 🎞📽

lighthearted. whimsical. funny.

- Aggretsuko, 2016 🎞📺
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, 2018, dir. Joel and Ethan Coen 📽
- Beetlejuice, 1988, dir. Tim Burton 📽
- But I'm a Cheerleader, 1999, dir. Jamie Babbit 📽
- Electric Dreams, 1984, dir. Steve Barron 📽
- Freaks and Geeks, 1999 📺
- The French Dispatch, 2021, dir. Wes Anderson 📽
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams, 1979 📚
- Katamari Damacy Reroll by Monkeycraft, 2018 🎮
- Letter from Siberia, 1957, dir. Chris Marker 📽
- Life of Brian, 1979, dir. Terry Jones 📽
- Mission to Zyxx by Seth Lind, 2017 🎙
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1979, dir. Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones 📽
- Muthafukaz, 2017, dir. Shojiro Nishimi and Guillaume Renard 🎞📽
- Night is Short, Walk on Girl by Tomihiko Morimi 📖
- Night is Short, Walk on Girl, 2017, dir. Masaaki Yuasa 🎞📽
- Only Murders in the Building, 2021 📺
- Over the Garden Wall, 2014 🎞📺
- Pom Poko, 1994, dir. Isao Takahata 🎞📽
- Pushing Daisies, 2007 📺
- The Red Green Show, 1991 📺
- School of Rock, 2003, dir. Richard Linklater 📽
- The Tatami Galaxy by Tomihiko Morimi 📖
- The Tatami Galaxy, 2010 🎞📺
- Tatami Time Machine Blues, 2022 🎞📺
- Untitled Goose Game by House House, 2019 🎮
- What We Do in the Shadows, 2014, dir. Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement 📽📺

action. adventure. excitement.

- 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke, 1968 📚
- 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke, 1982 📚
- 2010: The Year We Make Contact, 1984, dir. Peter Hyams 📽
- 2061: Odyssey Three by Arthur C. Clarke, 1987 📚
- 3001: The Final Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke, 1997 📚
- Adaptation, 2002, dir. Spike Jonze 📽
- The Adventure Zone: Amnesty, The McElroy Family, 2018 🎙
- The Adventure Zone: Balance, The McElroy Family, 2014 🎙🗞
- The Adventure Zone: Ethersea, The McElroy Family, 2021 🎙
- The Animatrix, 2003, dir. Koji Morimoto, Peter Chung, Andrew R. Jones, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Takeshi Koike, Mahiro Maeda, and Shinichiro Watanabe 🎞📽
- Children of Men, 2006, dir. Alfonso Cuarón 📽
- Code Lyoko, 2004 🎞📺
Colossus: The Forbin Project, 1970, dir. Joseph Sargent 📽
- Continuum, 2012 📺
- Disco Elysium by Robert Kurvitz, 2019 🎮
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, 2009 🗞🎞📺
- Glass Onion, 2022, dir. Rian Johnson 📽
- Half-Life by Valve, 1998 🎮
- Half-Life 2 by Valve, 2004 🎮
- Kubo and the Two Strings, 2016, dir. Travis Knight 🎞📽
- Limitless, 2011, dir. Neil Burger 📽
- The Lost Room, 2006 📺
- Laputa: Castle in the Sky, 1986, dir. Hayao Miyazaki 🎞📽
- Lola Rennt, 1998, dir. Tom Tykwer 📽
- The Matrix, 1999, dir. Lily and Lana Wachowski 📽
- Midnight Burger by Joe Fisher, 2020 🎙
- The Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells, 2017 📚
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, 1984, dir. Hayao Miyazaki 🗞🎞📽
- Neon Genesis Evangelion, 1995 🎞📺
- The NeverEnding Story, 1984, dir. Wolfgang Peterson 📽
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?, 2000, dir. Joel Coen 📽
- Pacific Rim, 2013, dir. Guillermo del Toro 🎥
- The Penumbra Podcast by Sophie Takagi Kaner and Kevin Vibert, 2015 🎙
- Portal by Valve, 2007 🎮
- Portal 2 by Valve, 2011 🎮
- Predestination, 2014, dir. Michael & Peter Spierig 📽
- The Princess Bride, 1987, dir. Rob Reiner 📽
- Princess Mononoke, 1997, dir. Hayao Miyazaki 🎞📽
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica, 2011 🎞📺
- Samurai Champloo, 2004 🎞📺
- Sense8, 2015 📺
- Seven Samurai, 1954, dir. Akira Kurosawa 📽
- Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett, 1996 📙📖
- Snatch, 2000, dir. Guy Ritchie 📽
- Snowpiercer, 2013, dir. Bong Joon-ho 📽
- Soul Eater, 2008 🗞🎞📺
- Star Trek: The Next Generation, 1987 📺
- Steamboy, 2004, dir. Katsuhiro Otomo 🎞📽
- Super 8, 2011, dir. J.J. Abrams 📽
- Time Bandits, 1981, dir. Terry Gilliam 📽
- Travelers, 2016 📺
- Treasure Planet, 2002, dir. Ron Clements and John Musker 🎞📽
- WarGames, 1983, dir. John Badham 📽
- Watership Down by Richard Adams, 1972 📖
- Watership Down, 1978, dir. Martin Rosen 🎞📽
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, 1962 📚

scary. tense. thrilling.

- 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968, dir. Stanley Kubick 📽
- Akira by Katsuhiro Ootomo 🗞
- Akira, 1988, dir. Katsuhiro Ootomo 🎞📽
- Alien, 1979, dir. Ridley Scott 📽
- Aliens, 1986, dir. James Cameron 📽
- An American Werewolf in London, 1981, dir. John Landis 📽
- Archive 81 by Dead Signals, 2016 🎙
- "The Birds" by Daphne du Maurier 📙
- Black Mirror, 2011 📺
- Carrie, 1976, dir. Brian DePalma 📽
- The City & The City by China Miéville, 2009 📖
- Coraline, 2009, dir. Henry Selick 🎞📽
- Dead Ringers, 1988, dir. David Cronenberg
- Device6 by Simogo, 2013 📱
- Eraserhead, 1977, dir. David Lynch 📽
- Evil Dead, 1981, dir. Sam Raimi 📽
- Ex Machina, 2014, dir. Alex Garland 📽
- The Exorcist, 1973, dir. William Friedkin 📽
- Fargo, 1996, dir. Joel Coen 📽
- Fargo, 2014 📺
- Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenya, 2018 📙📖
- Friday the 13th, 1980, dir. Sean S. Cunningham 📽
- A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, 2014, dir. Ana Lily Amirpour 📽
- Gone Girl, 2014, dir. David Fincher 📽
- Hereditary, 2018, dir. Ari Aster 📽
- Ikai, 2020 🎮
- Inscryption by Developer Digital, 2021 🎮
- "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" by Ambrose Bierce, 1886 📙
- Kairo by Locked Door Puzzle, 2013 🎮
- Kindred by Octavia Butler, 1979 📖
- Kisima Inŋitchuŋa by Upper One, 2015 🎮
- Klute, 1971, dir. Alan J. Pakula 📽
- The Last of Us by Naughty Dog, 2013 🎮
- Lifeline by Dave Justus (3 Minute Games), 2015 📱
- The Lighthouse, 2019, dir. Robert Eggers 📽
- "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, 1948 📙
- Mabel by Becca De La Rosa and Mabel Martin, 2019 🎙
- Meek's Cutoff, 2010, dir. Kelly Reichardt 📽
- Memento, 2000, dir. Christopher Nolan 📽
- Midnight Mass, 2021 📺
- The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality by Dom Guilfoyle, That's Not Canon, 2020 🎙
- Moon, 2009, dir. Duncan Jones 📽
- Mushi-shi, 2005 🗞🎞📺
- Nightcrawler, 2014, dir. Dan Gilroy 📽
- Night of the Living Dead, 1968, dir. George A. Romero 📽
- No Country for Old Men, 2007, dir Joel and Ethan Coen 📽
- Nope, 2022, dir. Jordan Peele 📽
- Pathologic by Ice-Pick Lodge, 2015 🎮
- Pathologic 2 by Ice-Pick Lodge, 2019 🎮
- Paprika, 2006, dir. Satoshi Kon 🎞📽
- Parasite, 2019, dir. Bong Joon-ho 📽
- Peeping Tom, 1960, dir. Michael Powell 📽
- Perfect Blue, 1998, dir. Satoshi Kon 🎞📽
- Psycho, 1960, dir. Alfred Hitchcock 📽
- Repo! The Genetic Opera, 2008, dir. Darren Lynn Bousman 📽
- Scream, 1996, dir. Wes Craven 📽
- Serial Experiments Lain, 1998 🎞📺
- The Silence of the Lambs, 1991, dir. Jonathan Demme 📽
- The Silt Verses by Jon Ware and Muna Hussen, 2021 🎙
- Sorry to Bother You, 2018, dir. Boots Riley 📽
- Sound of My Voice, 2011, dir. Zal Batmanglij 📽
- Squid Game, 2021 📺
- The Strain, 2014 📺
- The Thing, 1982, dir. John Carpnter 📽
- The Trial by Franz Kafka, 1925 📖
- True Detective, 2014 📺
- The Twilight Zone, 1959 📺
- Twin Peaks, 1990 📺
- Vampires vs. Bronx, 2020, dir. Osmany Rodriguez 📽
- Videodrome, 1983, dir. David Cronenberg 📽
- The Witch, 2015, dir. Robert Eggers 📽
- Year Walk by Simogo, 2013 📱

tragic. dramatic. intense.

- 12 Angry Men, 1957, dir. Sidney Lumet 📽
- Affinity by Sarah Waters, 2002 📖
- Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, 1847 📖
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, 📖
- Another Earth, 2011, dir. Mike Cahill 📽
- A Small Talk at the Back of Beyond 💻
- Atonement, 2007, dir. Joe Wright 📽
- “Aye, and Gomorrah” by Samuel R. Delaney, 1967 📙
- Beasts of the Southern Wild, 2012, dir. Benh Zeitlin 📽
- the Beloved trilogy by Toni Morrison, 1987 📚
- Better Call Saul, 2015 📺
- Bicycle Thieves, 1948, dir. Vittorio De Sica 📽
- "Brokeback Mountain" by Annie Proulx, 1997 📙
- Brokeback Mountain, 2005, dir. Ang Lee 📽
- The Cider House Rules by John Irving, 1985 📖
- Citizen Kane, 1941, dir. Orson Welles 📽
- Dead Poets Society, 1989, dir. Peter Weir 📽
- Death Note, 2006 🗞🎞📺
- Eden of the East, 2009 🎞📺
- Fingersmith by Sarah Wates, 2002 📖
- Fun Home by Alison Bechdel 🗞📖
- The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, 1944 🎭
- The Godfather, 1972, ir. Francis Ford Coppola 📽
- Grave of the Fireflies, 1988, dir. Isao Takahata 🎞📽
- Her, 2013, dir. Spike Jonze 📽
- Interstellar, 2014, dir. Christopher Nolan 📽
- Looper, 2012, dir. Rian Johnson 📽
- The Miseducation of Cameron Post, 2018, dir. Desiree Akhavan 📽
- The Passion of Joan of Arc, 1928, dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer 📽
- Revolutionary Girl Utena, 1997 🎞📺
- Rhymes for Young Ghouls, 2013, dir. Jeff Barnaby 📽
- The Secret of Kells, 2009, dir. Tomm Moore 🎞📽
- Sex, Lies, and Videotape, 1989, dir. Steven Soderbergh 📽
- The Shawshank Redemption, 1994, dir. Frank Darabont 📽
- The Social Network, 2010, dir. David Fincher 📽
- The Sopranos, 1999 📺
- Stand by Me, 1986, dir. Rob Reiner 📽
- The Stranger by Albert Camus, 1989 📖
- Succession, 2018 📺
- Throne of Blood, 1957, dir. Akira Kurosawa 📽
- The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (any version including the A-text, B-text, and Goethe’s Faust), 1592 🎭
- To Kill a Mockingbird, 1962, dir. Robert Mulligan 📽
- Truth and Bright Water by Thomas King, 1999 📖
- V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, 1990 🗞📖
- Villette by Charlotte Brontë, 1853 📖
- Walk Two Moons by Sharon Ceech, 1994 📖
- The White Lotus, 2021 📺
- Wolf Children, 2012, dir. Mamoru Hosoda 🎞📽
- Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Brontë, 1847 📖
- "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1892 📙

inscrutable. contemplative. profound.

- Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko, 1991 📖
- Atlanta, 2016 📺
- The Bear, 2022 📺
- A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon: New (Soma)tics by C.A. Conrad, 2012 🍃📖
- The Brief and Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, 2007 📖
- Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine, 2014 🍃📖
- Columbus, 2017, dir. Kogonada 📽
- Coffee and Cigarettes, 2003, dir. Jim Jarmusch 📽
- Contact by Carl Sagan, 1985 📖
- Cowboy Bebop, 1998 🎞📺
- The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat, 2004 📖
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974 📖
- Everything Everywhere All At Once, 2022, dir. Daniels Kwan and Scheinert 📽
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, 1953 📖
- The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat, 1998 📖
- Force Majeure, 2014, dir. Ruben Ostlund 📽
- "The Fourth State of Matter" by Jo Ann Beard, 1996 📄
- “The Garden of Forking Paths” by Jorge Luis Borges, 1941 📙
- Generosity by Richard Powers, 2009 📖
- Ghost World by Daniel Clowes, 1998 🗞📖
- The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda by Ishmael Reed, 2019 🎭
- Homie by Danez Smith, 2020 🍃📖
- I'm Thinking of Ending Things, 2020, dir. Charlie Kaufman 📽
- "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried" by Amy Hempel, 1985 📄
- Journey by thatgamecompany, 2012 🎮
- Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine, 2015 🗞📖
- Light in the Crevice Never Seen by Haunani-Kay Trask, 1994 🍃📖
- Lord of the Butterflies by Andrea Gibson, 2018 🍃📖
- Love, Death & Robots, 2019 🎞📺
- Loving Vincent, 2017, dir. Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman 🎞📽
- “The Machine Stops” by E.M. Forster, 1909 📙
- The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, 1950 📖
- Moonbase Theta, Out by Monkeyman Productions, 2019 🎙
- Monument Valley by Ustwo, 2014 📱
- Monument Valley II by Ustwo, 2017 📱
- My Josephine, 2003, dir. Barry Jenkins 📽
- My Own Private Idaho, 1991, dir. Gus Van Sant 📽
- News from Home, 1976, dir. Chantal Akerman 📽
- Night is a Sharkskin Drum by Haunani-Kay Trask, 2002 🍃📖
- The OA, 2016 📺
- A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories by Ray Bradbury, 2010 📖
- Reservation Dogs, 2021 📺
- Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov, 1986 📙📖
- Robot Visions by Isaac Asimov, 1990 📙📖
- Russian Doll, 2019 📺
- The Sailor’s Dream by Simogo, 2014 📱
- Short Term 12, 2013, dir. Destin Daniel Cretton 📽
- Sleepwalk and other stories by Adrian Tomine, 1997 🗞📖
- Soledad by Angie Cruz, 2002 📖
- Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg, 1993 📖
- There There by Tommy Orange, 2018 📖
- This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz, 2010 📖
- This One Summer by Jillian & Mariko Tamaki, 2014 🗞📖
- Tropic of Orange by Karen Tei Yamashita, 1997 📖
- Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterophobia by Samuel R. Delany, 1976 📖
- The Truman Show, 1998, dir. Peter Weir 📽
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, 2010, dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul 📽
- "An Unexpected Honor", the 2017 Hugo Award acceptance speech by Ursula Vernon 📄
- The Weight of a Soul by Laura Gilpin, 2008 🍃📖
- Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, 2012 🎙
- The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, 1966 📖 with suggested additional reading of Jane Eyre by Emily Brontë
- A Woman of Property by Robyn Schiff, 2016 🍃📖
- Worth by Robyn Schiff, 2002 🍃📖

enlightening. revealing. informative.

- The Art of Description: World into Word by Mark Doty, 2010 📖
- (A)sexual, 2011, dir. Angela Tucker 📽
- Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir by Deby A. Miranda, 2012 📖
- Beautiful Darling, 2010, dir. James Rasin 📽
- Black Panthers, 1968, Agnès Varda 📽
- Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes, 1980 📖
- Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast by MorbidAudio, 2019 🎙
- Creating Character Arcs: The Masterful Author's Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development by K.M. Weiland, 2016 📖
- Citizenfour, 2014, dir. Laura Poitras 📽
- Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution, 2020, dir. Nicole Newnham and James Lebrecht 📽
- The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, 2017, dir. David France 📽
- Dislocation Blues, 2017, dir. Sky Hopinka 📽
- Dreams of a Life, 2011, dir. Carol Morley 📽
- Farha, 2021, dir. Darin J. Sallam 📽
- A Guide to Intimate Letter Writing by Jeanne Georgette, 1943 📖
- How to Survive a Plague, 2012, dir. David France 📽
- The Improvement Association by Serial Productions and The New York Times, 2021 🎙
- Intersexion, 2012, dir. Grant Lahood 📽
- Nice White Parents by Serial Productions and The New York Times, 2020 🎙
- Night and Fog, 1956, dir. Alain Resnais 📽
- Missing on 9/11 by Jon Walczak and iHeartRadio, 2021 🎙
- Missing in Alaska by Jon Walczak and iHeartRadio, 2020 🎙
- Paris is Burning, 1990, dir. Jennie Livingston 📽
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, 2003 🗞📖
- Persepolis, 2007, dir. Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi 🎞📽
- The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes, 1973 📖
- Reassemblage, 1983, dir. Trinh T. Minh-ha 📽
- Sans Soleil, 1983, dir. Chris Marker 📽
- Saving Brinton, 2017, dir. Tommy Haines and Andrew Sherburne 📽
- Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine by Justin and Dr. Sydnee McElroy, 2013 🎙
- Serial by Sarah Koenig and Julie Snyder, 2014 🎙
- Shirkers, 2018, dir. Sandi Tan 📽
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematoy by Caitlin Doughty, 2015 📖
- Stories We Tell, 2012, dir. Sarah Polley 📽
- Surname Viet Given Name Nam, 1989, dir. Trinh T. Minh-ha 📽
- Three Identical Strangers, 2018, dir. Tim Wardle 📽
- Time Travel: A History by James Gleik, 2016 📖
- Titicut Follies, 1967, dir. Frederick Wiseman 📽
- Tower, 2016, dir. Keith Maitland 📽
- When the Moon Waxes Red by Trinh T. Minh-ha, 1991 📖 with special attention to "The Totalizing Quest of Meaning" and "Mechanical Eye, Electronic Ear, and the Lure of Authenticity"
- Whose Streets?, 2017, dir. Sabaah Folayan 📽
- Y'all Better Quiet Down, 2019, dir. Brogan Bertie 📽

surreal. experimental. avant garde.

- Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights by Gertrude Stein, 1938 🎭
- Donnie Darko, 2001, dir. Richard Kelly 📽
- Fantastic Planet, 1973, dir. René Laloux 🎞📽
- Grey Gardens, 1975, dir. the Maysles Brothers, Muffie Meyer, and Ellen Hovde 📽
- I Lost My Body, 2018, dir. Jérémy Clapin 🎞📽
- Jack and the Cuckoo Clock Heart, 2013, dir. Mathias Malzieu and Stéphane Berla 🎞📽
- Man with a Movie Camera, 1929, dir. Dziga Vertov 📽
- Meshes of the Afternoon, 1943, dir. Maya Deren 📽
- Pink Floyd's The Wall, 1982, dir. Alan Parker 🎞📽
- Portrait of Jason, 1967, dir. Shirley Clarke 📽
- Recyclopedia: Trimmings / S✱PeRM✱✱K✱T / Muse and Drudge by Harryette Mullen, 2006 🍃📖
- Un Chien Andalou, 1929, dir. Luis Buñuel 📽
- Varda by Agnès, 2019, dir. Agnès Varda 📽