10 Bizarre Experimental Films You Won't Believe Actually Exist

1. Blow Job

Eeefeff Blow Job is pretty much exactly what it says on the tin. With it, Andy Warhol created a 35 minute film detailing the facial expressions of a man receiving a blowjob. There's no other plot or events or even cuts in the film -- it's just one single, uninterrupted shot of this man from the neck up. If it was just porn, that would be one thing. But it's not. The film isn't titillating, nor is it meant to be. Warhol seems to be making a statement with his frank depiction of human sexuality, but he's also making a particularly unsubtle attempt to shock his audiences that is fooling exactly nobody. In making a sex film where no sex is actually shown, Warhol distances the viewer from what is usually an intensely personal act. When all is said and done, the most controversial aspect of the film is the title. All we see during the film is the man's face, and we don't know if there's even anyone performing fellatio (although most believe there was, and name avant-garde filmmaker Willard Maas as the person responsible). And just in case 35 minutes wasn't enough, in 1966 Warhol made a sequel to Blow Job called Eating Too Fast. So...there's that.
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Audrey Fox is an ex-film student, which means that she prefers to spend her days in the dark, watching movies and pondering the director's use of diegetic sound. She currently works as an entertainment writer, joyfully rambling about all things film and television related. Add her on Twitter at @audonamission and check out her film blog at 1001moviesandbeyond.com.