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** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E9MrPlow Mr. Plow]]": Homer's second commercial is turned into one, prominently featuring a woman singing opera and the sun rising and falling over a city but not much about what he actually does. The guy who made the commercial in question claims to have ''invented'' this trope. [[spoiler:Homer punches him in the face, which the guy apparently gets all the time.]]

* Sort of in ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends''; Bloo writes a trope overdosed hilariously over-the-top movie for a student film festival called ''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot T-Rexatron Alienwolf 3: A Prequel in Time, the Unrelenting]]'', with weird scenes and purposely {{Narm}}-y lines.

* Joseph Losey in his later career; he rarely met a baroque camera angle or overwrought symbol he didn't like. The results vary from excellent (''The Servant'') to questionable (''The Assassination of Trotsky'').

* ''The Lovers'', a well-made 1958 drama by Creator/LouisMalle about upper-middle-class alienation, ennui, and the ''liaisons'' of bored housewives, managed to be permanently recorded in [[UsefulNotes/AmericanCourts United States judicial history]] by being the subject of ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobellis_v._Ohio Jacobellis v. Ohio]]'', which thanks to a sex scene ran afoul of Ohio's obscenity laws. The US Supreme Court determined that [[ItsNotPornItsArt movies and other works with explicit content but redeeming artistic merit]] cannot, under the First Amendment, be censored. However, it is most noted for Justice Potter Stewart's [[MemeticMutation famous statement]] about "hard-core pornography", viz., "I know it when I see it". Stewart went on to say that this film ''does'' have artistic merit and thus is not porn, making ''The Lovers'' one of the few works ever to officially be declared to be of serious artistic value in a government document.

* Most of Peter Greenaway's ''oeuvre'' fits this trope. While some films, such as ''Film/TheDraughtsmansContract'' and ''Literature/ThePillowBook'' are fairly well rooted in reality and understandable (for the most part) to the average audience, works like ''Prospero's Books'' take neo-baroque to an [[MindScrew incomprehensible]] new level.

* Being in a foreign language, usually [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench French]]. As part of this, most in-fiction examples end with a "''Fin''" text overlay. German and Scandinavian languages are also used. Alternatively [[SilenceIsGolden It has no dialogue.]]

* ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' featured an extended sketch entitled "Rome, Italian Style" which sent up Italian art films, with many references to Creator/FedericoFellini films and ''The Tenth Victim''. Joe Flaherty does a devastatingly accurate parody of prolific Italian actor Creator/MarcelloMastroianni.

* Something similar happened on ''The Carpoolers'', with the son making a surrealist film out of a wedding home video and declared a genius by the Sundance Film Festival jury.
* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'''s "''SHEOS''" [sic].

* ''Series/BigTrain'' features a parody of French cinema, shot in black and white and spoken in French with subtitles. A woman in a cafe (played by Creator/CatherineTate) tells her boyfriend she's leaving him for "something else" — a set of traffic lights. She eventually decides to return, but the man has taken up with a lawn sprinkler.
** A similar sketch has the French woman deliver a similarly angsty, introspective monologue to her companion, who sits and nods patiently before, in English, responding with "No, I'm sorry, I don't understand a word you're saying."

* Abed's film in ''Series/{{Community}}''.
** From what we see, the Dean's commercial — which is supposed to be a 30-second spot briefly introducing a community college and why people should study there — spirals out of control to become one of these, as the Dean gets it into his head that he's somehow combating racism among other things.

* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' has "''A Film by Kirk''", which is hilarious to the title characters.

* Series/TheDailyShow does this from time to time.

* In ''Series/TheofficeUS'', Gabe's film, which he says is an example of the "cinema of the unsettling," features black-and-white cinamatography and bizarre shots such as food rotting, blood pouring out of a cake, and an unseen person waiting for Stanley in the back of his car.
* Parodied in ''Series/TheGoodies'' episode "The Movies". After the Goodies have purchased Britain's remaining film studio, they watch some of the films it produces, which include the very long and very slow ''Death in Bognor'' (a spoof of Creator/LuchinoVisconti's ''Death in Venice''), and the surreal ''Life of Pablo Casals'' by Creator/KenRussell, a spoof of his composer biopics (especially ''Mahler'') featuring a nun stripping to a frenzied cello accompaniment, but revealing a whiteface mime.

* ''Literature/InfiniteJest'': Much of James Incandenza Jr.'s filmography.
* The ''oeuvre'' of Stanislas Cordova, the cult director at the heart of Marissa Peel's ''Night Film,'' whose films are believed to [[BrownNote drive their viewers insane.]]

* In ''After The Fox'', Creator/PeterSellers plays a master thief who is trying to smuggle gold into Italy. As a cover story, he pretends to shoot an art film in a small coastal village. When the ship carrying the gold is delayed, he has to improvise, shooting scenes at random and trying to come up with explanations for his "artistic vision". In the end, the film is shown [[spoiler:at his trial, where a film critic hails it as a work of genius. Of course.]]

* Anais Nin attends several in ''Henry & June''. Early in the story, she goes to find Henry Miller in a small theater, watching a beautiful art film sex scene with Lots of Symbolism (a necklace breaks and scatters pearls all over the place, people are [[SmokingHotSex blowing cigarette smoke]]). The actress strongly resembles his wife June and when Anais touches him he is weeping. This is not an actual film. It was made for the movie and the actress who resembles June is played by Uma Thurman, who plays June. Later, Anais and her husband with Henry and June watch ''Film/MadchenInUniform''.[[note]]June whispers "You're like the school teacher. I'm like the young girl." June actually did say this to Anais.[[/note]] Anais returns to the theater with her husband, Henry and her cousin Edouardo. She learns to say "[[PrecisionFStrike Fuck you, Jack!]]" to a viewer who disapproves of ''Film/UnChienAndalou''.

* Being in a foreign language, usually [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench French]]. As part of this, most in-fiction examples end with a "''Fin''" text overlay. German and Scandinavian languages are also used. Alternatively [[[SilenceIsGolden It has no dialogue.]]

* Bucket-loads of intellectual pretentiousness, usually related to either European philosophical currents like [[StrawNihilist Nihilism]] or UsefulNotes/{{Existentialism}} or [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory religion]], although always in a [[RuleOfSymbolism strongly symbolic]], [[MindScrew deliberately abstruse]] way.

* Being in a foreign language, usually [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench French]]. As part of this, most in-fiction examples end with a "''Fin''" text overlay. German and Scandinavian languages are also used.

* Bucket-loads of intellectual pretentiousness, usually related to European philosophical currents like [[StrawNihilist Nihilism]] or UsefulNotes/{{Existentialism}}, although always in a [[RuleOfSymbolism strongly symbolic]], [[MindScrew deliberately abstruse]] way.

%%* ''Series/TheFastShow'' also manages to successfully shoehorn a [[https://youtu.be/o4EjX_bywCU catchphrase]] into this trope. [[note]]The scene is a direct parody of Godard's ''Film/{{Contempt}}''.[[/note]] %% Zero Context Example. Weblinks are not examples.

* Israeli sitcom ''[=HaPijamot=]'' features a brief bit from a DeliberatelyMonochrome student film Yamit took part in that definitely qualifies:

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' makes fun especially of Creator/FedericoFellini on their fake reunion/clip show.
* Jacques from ''WesternAnimation/RandyCunninghamNinthGradeNinja'' makes movies that are DeliberatelyMonochrome with a SplashOfColor that include mundane, nonsensical imagery, random sound effects and people crying.
* The Chameleon Brothers from ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' made one of these, [[https://youtu.be/YaNsE0UuZ00 "La Vie moderne de Pinto,"]] out of Rocko's ''home movies'', adding shots of flowers blooming, [[FauxlosophicNarration pretentious narration]], and title cards saying "Regret" and "Pineapples", among other things. Of course, the only thing Rocko was concerned about was that the film featured his (pre-censored) [[NakedPeopleAreFunny nudity]]. More HilarityEnsues when he discovers that the chameleons sent it to an Australian Film Festival, which it ''wins!'' Even more HilarityEnsues when Rocko gets a letter from his parents, who saw the film at the festival. Rocko is mortified, but to his amazement his parents absolutely loved it.

** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E20HomeAwayFromHomer Home Away from Homer]]": Lisa is a fan of a foreign film titled ''Kosovo Autumn'', which is about two soldiers and a goat complaining in Albanian morosely about the ongoing war ("I am older than time itself").

* An ''infomercial'' was one of these in ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor''. Fittingly, it was made by the French division of the KND.
* Parodied on ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' with [[PerkyGoth Vanessa]] and her friend's movie night during "Night Of The Living Pharmacist".
* In the episode “The Kids Stay in the Picture”, by ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee'', Ophelia writes and directs the film “The Unbearable Lightness of Grapefruit”,a black and white film with a succession of scenes that illustrate enigmatic metaphors narrated by Ophelia, about racoons and grapefruits. Afterwards, Ophelia, dissatisfied with the result, tries to film it in color, making it even more surreal. The remake is derailed by the fact that Juniper has to deal with monsters, but she, to comfort Ophelia, arranges for the original film to be screened at the Orchid Bay Festival, where it is enthusiastically received.