Watch clips from THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA: PART 1

The question of a 'third pill', finding the real within the fiction. Zizek on Andy and Larry Wachowski's THE MATRIX and on Hitchcock's THE BIRDS.

Zizek on David Lynch's BLUE VELVET.

To see a full list of films featured in the Guide go to FILMS FEATURED. For more info on THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA go to ABOUT THE GUIDE.

Watch clips from THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA: PART 2

Zizek on David Lynch's LOST HIGHWAY. This extract forms one section in the exploration between fantasy and reality that makes up Part 2 of the Guide.

Watch clips from THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA: PART 3

Being haunted by alternative versions of ourselves, unfinished reality and the role of fiction. Zizek on ALIEN RESURRECTION.

Zizek on Chaplin's CITY LIGHTS.

Watch Lars From 1-10 (1998/10 mins)

This short film by Sophie Fiennes (Guide director) on Lars von Trier screened at Sundance 1999. It is a 10 minute screen portrait in which von Trier reflects on his Dogme rules. The film was shot at von Trier's home in Denmark soon after his return from the Cannes Film Festival 1998. Although he did not win any prizes in Cannes for The Idiots (his first Dogme film) and was much criticised at the time by journalists for his Dogme 'publicity stunt', the Dogme rules, while personal for von Trier as a film maker, soon provoked the film making community at large into questioning conventional cinematic grammar in the wake of the digital video revolution. (See Zizek on von Trier's DOGVILLE in THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA).

Watch THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA: MORE4 TRAILER
THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA was first commissioned by Jan Younghusband at UK broadcaster, Channel 4, as part of a one-off series called Art Shock. Part 1 was screened on Channel 4 - but the full film Parts 1, 2 and 3, was screened on consecutive nights on Channel 4's digital sister channel More 4. View the trailer made by More 4.