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OUGD401 - Avant Garde Cinema

Avant Garde Cinema
opposition to mainstream cinema
critical opposition to hollywood
non linear/non figurative/non narrative
open rather than closed
requires a different kind of spectatorship
difficult to define

Un Chien Andalou
Dr Luis Bunuel 1929
Dali and Bunuel made up the film thinking of everything that came into their head. There are lots of freudian readings.

Matthew Barney - Cremaster 3



Oskar Fischinger - Spirals 1926


James Whitney - Lapis 1966



Stan Brakhage - Black Ice 1994



Stan Brakhage - Window Water Baby Moving



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