Les Chants de Maldoror / Shuji Terayama /1977

Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy. Les chants de Maldoror, a 19th century poetic novel by Comte de Lautreamont, was a huge influence not only on the surrealist movement of the next century, but also on the young Shuji Terayama, a multifaceted Japanese artist who dedicated this 27-minute short film to Lautreamont's work. it's a collection of mild perversions seen through overlapping images and Akio Suzuki's mystical soundtrack that occasionally delves into weird sounds of distorted voices and what sounds like police sirens underwater.