This is something of a weird horror/film-noir experimental piece which met with censorship issues back in the 50's, meaning that it went mostly unseen for many years. It's avant-garde nature is most probably by necessity as opposed to design, as it has no dialogue and barely any synchronised sound and instead has a soundtrack compromising of jazz and wailing that wouldn't be out of place in a sci-fi movie. The cinematography is pretty inventive though and there are a bunch of individually memorable sequences in here. The story focuses on a psychotic woman and her night-time odyssey through a city - it plays like a living nightmare of sorts. Without sync-sound it can be somewhat unengaging at times but kudos to it for being so thoroughly strange and transgressive for its time.
Review of Dementia
