"the act of seeing with one's own eyes" (Stan Brakhage, RIP):

Dissection of cult, foreign, surreal, independent, underground, & genre cinema will commence in the operating theatre.

Makavejev. Bunuel. Godard. Miike. Pasolini. Anger. Lynch. Deren. Cocteau. Kurosawa. Herzog. Fassbinder. Greenaway. Romero. Cronenberg. Jodorowsky. Welles. Roeg. Fulci. Ferrara. Fanaka. Polanski. Eloy de la Iglesia. Mario Bava. Suzuki. Altman. Stone. Masumura. Grau. Russell. Egoyan. Leone. Sollima. Carpenter. Cassavettes. Fredric Hobbs. Jack Hill. John Waters. Kevin Smith. Alan Rudolph. Kasi Lemmons. Melvin Van Peebles. Harry Smith. Antony Balch. Otto Muehl. Kurt Kren. Ching Siu-tung. Zhang Yimou. Ang Lee. Peckinpah. Kubrick. Corbucci. Brakhage. Hartley. Metzger. Fukui. Margheriti. Kobayashi. Zulawski. Bakshi. Misumi. Schrader. Fellini. Doris Wishman. Larry Clark. Larry Cohen. Paul Thomas Anderson. Jose Mojica Marins. Moctezuma. Corman. Tsukamoto. H.G. Lewis.

....and many, many more...