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13. Bliss

Bliss is the film that well and truly put cult filmmaker Joe Begos on the map. 

This utterly mesmerising odyssey follows an artist, Dezzy (Dora Madison), who takes a hallucinogenic drug in order to overcome crippling creative block and promptly descends into madness.

While those who require water-tight, crystalline narrative logic from their films might come a bit unstuck with Bliss, if you're able to surrender to its more fluid, free-wheeling vibe, this is one of cinema's best recent approximations of tripping balls on drugs.

Begos uses his low-budget, rough-hewn style to his absolute advantage, crafting a chaotic, visually aggressive and sonically sharp ride of a movie that's topped by a superbly committed performance from Dora Madison.

It remains the quintessential Begos film and a great introduction for anyone unfamiliar with his work - a face-ripping 80-minute romp where the cast and crew clearly left everything they had on the field.