10 Movies That Destroyed Themselves

For those of you not familiar with 2000's Branca De Neve, the film is based on Robert Walser's play and features a recital of Snow White over a black screen, with occasional images of clouds and ruins. Exciting stuff.

What director João César Monteiro's vision for this picture was is hard to say, but he made it with a clear purpose, intentionally covering the camera lens for large parts of the film and allowing narrators to tell the tale in voiceover, rather than actually having to shoot it with any actors.

Forbears for such work are seen across all media, such as Lou Reed's noise album Metal Machine Music (1975) and Tracy Emin's modern art sculpture My Bed (1998), but few are so seemingly insubstantial as Monteiro's film. The director himself didn't think he was butchering his Snow White movie, yet the film is near-unwatchable to the few people who have seen it, and it hasn't really gone down in history at all.

Is it ironic? Is it art? Or is it just nonsense in White's clothing? The latter. It's the latter.