Those looking for the surreal won't be disappointed by the work of Dusan Makavejev. The Yugoslavian director is perhaps best known for his '81 tale of sexual awakening, Montenegro. But his earlier films get much, much stranger than that, and six of them are being rereleased on video this week, including Sweet Movie, Innocence Unprotected and Gorilla Bathes at Noon.

My personal favourite, however, is W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism, an utterly disturbing film, part faux-documentary, part tale of the Eastern-bloc revolution, part sex orgy. Characters visit the offices of Screw magazine while discussing political and sexual liberty. The film rightly won the Luis Bunuel Prize at the Cannes Film Festival; Belgrade prosecutors promptly charged Makavejev with "derision of the state, its agencies, and its representatives." No need for any substances while screening this one (in fact, I wouldn't recommend it), the film's abrasive editing has a hallucinatory effect.

But you needn't get that surrealist buzz by watching the work of some highfalutin Euro-type. I find American politics can often deliver the buzz. A case in point: check out CNN's latest box-set, Election 2000, which features all of the networks' talking heads reliving the historically unprecedented 36-day U.S. presidential election. Greta Van Susteren rules!

--Matthew Hays