FILM 1502 1st Edition Lecture 22Outline of Last Lecture I. Why are documentaries important and how do they relate to our role as media consumers?II. How can documentary serve to facilitate discussions of otherwise neglected topics?III. Discussion: In looking at Grizzly Man, is there room for us to critically engage with the larger themes of personal “truth”?Outline of Current Lecture I. What is Experimental Film and how has it changed over time? Is it inherently political?II. What is the difference between formal experimentation and experimental narratives?III. How does surrealism branch formal experimentalism and the cinema avant-garde?Current LectureIntroducing Experimental Cinema 11/18 Experimental Film -The Heart of the World - Experimentation o Structural (playing with narrative structure, order of events) vs. material (playing with physical apparatus of film)o Interested in medium of film itself as a topic - Cinema avant-garde (front line): pushing boundaries of cinema form, thinking about general purpose of experimental film o What is cinema, how define and how to expand this o Can revert to some pre-cinematic structure Early History- Realism and dreams - Dadaism and German cinema expressionism o Fantastical environments, expressing emotions and ideas - Impressionism and French Cinema-Man with a Movie Camera o Experimentation and the mainstream: still frame, bringing frame to life, not so radical anymore-avant-garde push further o Process of editing, see the act of filming taking place, city symphony film o Camera and world relationship—camera can capture a representation of reality These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.-Europe and the US: western Europe to the US o Meshes of the Afternoon o-Stan Brakhage: major asset in this department, materialistic experimentation, interesting in actual physicality of film -“Underground Film”Counter Culture - Ideology and Commercialism o Movement about anti-consumerism being used by consumerists - (M)Admen: advertisings affect on this time period- The European New Wave o Extreme but mainstream experimental o La Jetée Archaic, still framing Post 1968, Africa, Latin America—“third cinema” (informational, politically engaged films to help communities navigate political shifts, forcing development)o Street of Crocodiles Form of stop motion MTV and ToolHow to watch an Experimental Film?- What do you see? What strikes you? How you
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