Film Studies 1020E Chapter Notes -Experimental Film, Cubism, Photomontage
14 Oct 2014
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In ballet mecanique (1924), french cubist painter leger, collaborated with american director dudley murphy in a celebration of machine- age aesthetics originally intended as a visual accompaniment to american composer george antheil"s musical piece of the same name. Soviet filmmakers were inspired by the same principles as the constructivist movements that energized painting, theater, poetry, graphic design and photomontage. Modernist filmmaking in the silent era was international in spirit, a characteristic that the introduction of sound and ride of fascism in europe the 1930"s would inhibit. Lightweight 16mm cameras, introduced as an amateur format and widely used during. Ww2 for reportage, were increasingly adopted by artists seeking more personal film expression. The american experimental film community fostered exchanges among artists and audiences that influenced later generations of filmmakers working with film as personal expression. The countercultural impulses of many of the filmmakers of the 1960"s were reflected in the preferred term underground film.
