The bond between mother and child is one of the most precious relationships possible. The more kids, the better: if mom accidentally murders one in a horrifically zany knife throwing act gone awry, there's always another to love/stab.

Street scenes repeat themselves by variations in Peter Greenaway's early experiment with rhythm and editing. In a triptych of identical footage, flashes of strangers set in black and white surroundings gain distinction and lose their places when the music changes.

One moment from childhood defines a man's entire existence as he time-travels from post-Apocalyptic Paris to save humanity, hunted by the scientists who sent him, and haunted by his strange memory of a gunshot and a girl on the pier.

In a graphic depiction of one couple's lovemaking (that's graphic symbols, nothing nasty; get your mind out of the gutter!), suggestive images pair with metered dialogue to create a figuratively pornographic film poem that reveals the psychosexualization of everyday objects.

Reality is confused with the dreamworld as a woman chases herself through a black and white land of symbols and cycles. Avant-garde pioneer Maya Deren's first film, Meshes of the Afternoon, concerns the psyche's secrets in an enigma of images.