The Film: A dense, lunatic working-out of Soderbergh's creative and personal crisis, Schizopolis is a self-financed experimental comedy in the style of Richard Lester's wonderfully chaotic '60s knockabouts.

Barely made for public consumption, the film makes little obvious sense. Soderbergh stars – twice – as a man whose wife (his real life ex) is having an affair with his doppleganger. “Oh no!” he shouts with triple meaning at one point, “I'm having an affair with my own wife!”

The film veers between the hashingly awful and the absurdly brillliant, and above all conveys a hell of confusion and miscommunication, with Soderbergh and wife exchanging descriptions of what normal people say to each other (“Generic greeting!”) and one whole scene replaced by a card bearing the words “Idea missing.”

Soderbergh Speaks: “When I finished Schizopolis, I honestly thought - I need to come up with a German word for this, too - I honestly thought that I was really onto something that was going to be very, very popular. I thought that movie was going to be a hit. I thought people would go, “This is a new thing.” Once I started showing it, I didn’t believe it anymore.”

“Schizopolis was an exercise in verbal and narrative abstraction, Gray's Anatomy in visual abstraction, and both of them defined the edges and gave me a shape to work within that I hadn't had before. They've both informed every film that I've made since.”