Avante-garde Cinema

The Lecture;

Avante-garde cinema;

• In opposite to mainstream cinema, these films attempt to be everything hollywood cinemas aren't.
• None linear/non figurative/non narrative - unwatchable according to how hollywood want us to watch films. These kind of film have a completely different audience.
• Open rather than closed
• Requires a different kind of spectator.

'Un Chien Andalou' (1929) Dir. Luis Bunuel;

• That represents the weight of the world. 
• Massively influential and one of the starting points of radical cinema. 
• There are still people making films in this style to this day.

Matthew Barney - Cremaster 3 (2002);

• Lots of visual metaphors
• Matthew Barney was the guy in the big pink wig
• Set in a museum(Googenheim) where lots of famous installation art were.

Oskar Fischinger - Spirals (1926);

• Unlike watching a movie.
• Developed with modernism

Lapis - James Whitney (1966);

• The film is at the same sort of speed of the human brain wave
• It links to you
• Abstract
• Just concentrating on the optical illusion in it
• Romantic, mystery, lyrical abstract films
• Poetic, use it as a way of explaining 

Stan Brakhage - Black Ice (1994);

• Scratches into the unexposed film
• Radical experimental film maker

Andy Warhol - Empire State Building;

• Take cinema and just look at the medium from a fresh perspective
• They are not about making money
• Outside capitalism