Admittedly, it ain't Christopher Nolan.  But in a cleverly conceived -- and surprisingly watchable -- example of what YouTube is capable of delivering, filmmaker Andre Perkowski brings us Silent Shadow of the Bat-Man, a detourned collage film made up up of found footage and scenes snipped from some of the same old silent movies that influenced Batman's creators, Bill Finger and Bob Kane, in designing the character, including The Bat, The Man Who Laughs and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

A happy-go-lucky approach to copyright issues ensures you won't be seeing this in the theaters anytime soon, but in addtion to writing original music for the Silent Shadow of the Bat-Man experiment, Perkowski has already shot three more chapters of a projected six-piece series, all made with the same detourning approach and all available on YouTube.