"In the following list, you'll find films running from four minute shorts to five hour epics, genres and styles from silent horrors to fantasy musicals, and settings which take the viewer from pre-history Colchis to the gay underground of 1960s Tokyo. Many of the films lean heavily on the timeless tales of Greek mythology, but you'll also find Okinawan creation myths, Jewish legends, Slavic folktales, as well as stories of witchcraft, vampires and vengeful ghosts from elsewhere in Asia and Europe.
Some of the featured filmmakers adopt a playful approach, others offer more subversive takes, some surrender completely to the strange inner logic of the supernatural folkloric world, and then there are those driven to interrogate the very nature of myth itself; but what unites all their films is that same shared sense of magic and wonder that the best myths, legends or folktales evoke."
