Cinema Du WTH: Subversive Film Starter Pack

Films have always been excellent for smuggling covert messages within its frames. Censors and authority figures can only see a simple genre flick whilst the production team and smart audience members can read between the lines to discover a radical subtext. For example, the famous Czech animator Jan Svankmajer commented that his films were allowed through simply because the censors thought they were simple children’s films when in reality they were revolutionary tracts.

A subversive film spits at authority figures, especially the corrupt ones; instead it embraces a rallying cry for pure freedom from oppression. A subversive...