Experimental film
Overview
Experimental film or experimental cinema is a type of cinema
. Experimental film is an artistic practice relieving both of visual arts
and cinema. Its origins can be found in European avant-garde
movements of the twenties. Experimental cinema has built its history through the texts of theoreticians like P. Adams Sitney
(and others film critics in different countries), and its distribution process through non profit organizations like The Film-Makers' Cooperative
in New York, and similar cooperatives in many others countries through the world.
The term describes a range of filmmaking
styles that are generally quite different from, and often opposed to, the practices of mainstream commercial and documentary film
making.
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
. Experimental film is an artistic practice relieving both of visual arts
Visual arts
The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, and often modern visual arts and architecture...
and cinema. Its origins can be found in European avant-garde
Avant-garde
Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
movements of the twenties. Experimental cinema has built its history through the texts of theoreticians like P. Adams Sitney
P. Adams Sitney
P. Adams Sitney , is a historian of American avant-garde cinema.-Life:He was educated in his hometown, at Yale University...
(and others film critics in different countries), and its distribution process through non profit organizations like The Film-Makers' Cooperative
The Film-Makers' Cooperative
The Film-Makers' Cooperative aka The New American Cinema Group is an artist-run, non-profit organization which was founded in 1962 in New York City by Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, Lloyd Michael Williams and other filmmakers to distribute avant-garde films through...
in New York, and similar cooperatives in many others countries through the world.
The term describes a range of filmmaking
Filmmaking
Filmmaking is the process of making a film, from an initial story, idea, or commission, through scriptwriting, casting, shooting, directing, editing, and screening the finished product before an audience that may result in a theatrical release or television program...
styles that are generally quite different from, and often opposed to, the practices of mainstream commercial and documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
making.
Discussions
