Most Artistic Film Scene
What scenes do you think are the most artistic and thought provoking of any film you've seen?
Here's the opening to Lars von Trier's "Melancholia" - it strikes me as the insignificance of human life (note that it is the Earth colliding into the other celestial body and not the other way around), that human existence is but a fleeting reverie (as in the tail end of Blade Runner)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kP-vuOy8cU
The other suggets I would have is the end of Ingmar Bergman's "Hour of the Wolf," a story in which the hidden desires of the main character materialize themselves in physical monsters, in this case in the seductive embrace of a woman, the crowd laughing at his weakness - he has been caught in the trap.
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Many scenes from Gravity struck me as very artistic, despite how exciting the movie was. Alfonso Cuaron's script contained s shocking amount of symbolism throughout the entirety of the film, with the themes of grief and redemption being the basis of the plot before he had decided to set the film in space. Behind the scenes videos were fascinating to watch not just because of the visual effects, but how almost every object, scene, or image was symbolic. Fascinating stuff.
I'll start off by saying that I have never really understood art, so I might have no business posting here. I tried watching Melancholia and I couldn't make it half way through. I can appreciate film making though, so if you consider that an art form maybe this will be on topic. So with that in mind, I'll bring up some cliche answers like 2001 and Apocalypse Now which as a whole are almost flawless in my opinion(OP already mentioned Blade Runner). John Carpenter's The Thing is also one of my favorites for a lot of reasons. It's probably in no way artsy or thought provoking, but as a sci-fi/mystery/suspense movie it might be the best, and the pre-cgi effects are great. As far as something that looks cool(again, I don't understand art. Whatever subtle meaning is implied is lost on me), A Scanner Darkly is done in the same way as Waking Life and is a much, much better film. And like Blade Runner it's another movie based off of a Philip K Dick Novel. Equilibrium probably deserves an honorable mention.
As far as scenes go, a lot of Kubrick movies come to mind. It can't be helped. Dave shutting down Hal in 2001, SO many scenes from The Shining, and the water flouridation scene in Dr. Strangelove. I probably don't need to go on naming off all the other well known great scenes from cinema history. There's a few scenes in Primer that completely screw my head over every time though.