Friday, 22 January 2010

Avant garde and arthouse

Avant garde is French for 'ahead of the crowd' many people interpret avant guarde as people or work who wish to be creative and experiment with new techniques, forms and expressions. When avant garde started many people saw there films as work which was ahead of there times. Many people felt this way because avant garde was about creating work which went against the norm. Because of the high amount of experimentation with narratives, shots and editing many people couldn’t understand what avant garde films were trying to show. Now day’s avant garde is seen as experimental and innovative work which is influenced by art, culture and politics. Avant garde directors look and see there films as a piece of art, they believe that there films should wake and shake there audiences. Avant garde directors believe in breaking the conventions of culture and art.

One of the most famous Avant Garde films of all time is Un Chien Andalou.

Is a sixteen minute silent surrealist short film produced in France by the Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí. Its title means "An Andalusian Dog". The film has no plot and strongly goes against all conventions. The film is most famous for the legendary shot of a pig’s eye getting sliced open by a razor. Like most Avant Garde directors the film follows no narrative and jumps between different years with out reason. Buñuel made clear throughout his writings that, between Dalí and himself, the only rule for the writing of the script were that "no idea or image that might lend itself to a rational explanation of any kind would be accepted".




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