His often surreal films were mainly filmed in and around the town of Wishaw in Scotland, where his family owned the popular Belhaven Cafe.
He was survived by one son, Panos Cosmatos, who directed the independently released surreal film "Beyond The Black Rainbow".
Walking into the ceremonies down the endless red carpet, the director David Lynch seemed almost like a character lost in one of his surreal films.
While managing the bassist-composer, Neil Cooper got Mingus a job writing a score for a surreal short film about a motorboat.
This dazzlingly surreal film reimagines the glam-rock 70's as a brave new world of electrifying theatricality and sexual possibility.
Suzan Pitt is an American film animator and painter, whose surreal, psychological animated films and paintings have been acclaimed and exhibited worldwide.
It is a marvellous and imaginative film, good humoured and occasionally surreal.
One of the more surreal short films in the show, containing minimal dialogue and apparently set in a dystopian future society.
She combined her interests in dance, voodoo and subjective psychology in a series of surreal, perceptual, black and white short films.
Singer Bob Dylan has said that this film was a large influence on his 1975 surreal film Renaldo and Clara.