ETS 154 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Maya Deren, Surrealism, Unconscious Mind

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: English Textual Studies
• Course: ETS 154
• Professor: L.Scheibel

Document Summary

Avant-garde are at the vanguard of film style, seeking alternative and innovative possibilities to expand the aesthetic language and experience of cinema as an art form. Profit and storytelling are not goals of avant-garde filmmakers (films make in a more artisanal mode, sometimes by only 1 person without necessarily involving synchronized soundtracks, set or actors) Not all experimental films are part of the avant-garde, but all avant-garde films are experimental. Abstract film: abandons human figures altogether and instead focuses on graphic form and rhythmic editing as subjects (some films are even created without the use of a camera) !1: challenges traditional, goal-oriented understandings of perception (a practical" or tutored" mode of recognizing familiar objects) and instead allows audiences to relearn now it sees by. Sep 28, 2016 absorbing and creating its own visual field: mothlight (stan breakage, 1963) Some avant-garde filmmakers have been associated with art and social change movements (eg feminism, gay/lesbian, liberation etc)