INI100H1 Lecture 11: Avant-Garde
Document Summary
The production, circulation, and reception of avant-garde film made outside the mainstream of film production. filmmakers typically view themselves as independent, self-expressive artists. virtually never enter into the realm of commercial distribution. are aimed at a limited, specialized audience. Although avant-garde cinema is extremely varied, it is united by a shared goal: to reject established cinematic conventions in order to expand the possibilities of film. For this reason scott macdonald refers to it as a critical cinema. -bring us into crises. How avant-garde films realize this goal: by abandoning or radically questioning narrative. Many avant-garde films are abstract or associational in their organization. When a film is abstract in organization, the presentation and arrangement of material is dictated by specific visual and/or aural qualities. In an a film that is associational in organization, images and sounds are rendered and combined so as to create connections that are ideational or conceptual in nature.