Week 12 - Oskar Fischinger - Ten Films PDF

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This week the teacher let us know what was going to be on our quiz the next week. We also learned about Experimental and Expanded Film/Video....

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Week 12 Oskar Fischinger - Ten Films - Animation tests and drawings

What's going to be on quiz Style - Cinematography (shots, remember different cut off points) - Editing Experimental and Expanded Film/Video Experimental films are a film that rejects the conventions of mainstream movies and explores the possibilities of the medium itself Have been referred to as avant-garde, underground, personal, or independent The most famous, important and discussed of all experimental films as Luis Bunuel's Un Chien Andalou (an andalusian dog) Aspects of this genre - Re-evaluates cinematic conventions and explores non narrative forms and alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working - The ain is to express the personal vision of an artist, rather than to entertain or to generate revenue - The goal is often to place the viewer in a more active and more thoughtful relationship to the film - Use minimum language- prefer visual images - Typical features - non narrative, impressionistic, or poetic approaches to the film’s construction - define what is generally understood to be experimental - Rejects a lot of conventions from mainstream movies - Since there are no set rules in experimental films (hence the name experimental) it means various styles of experimental films exist Brakhage’s Dog Star Man - consists of fast moving layers of colors, shapes, splotches that create a disorienting and unique experience Warhol’s Eat - Consists of a nearly 40min high contrast shot of a man slowly eating, transcends the expectations of what a movie should be Stan Brakhage - art on film Self-Reflexive Cinema - May include a character interrupting the story to speak to the camera - Has generally been seen as consciously opposed to mainstream cinema’s realistic illusion which hides processes and conventions from immediate view (classical hollywood style of continuity editing does this) Other Characteristics

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Can be any length (experimental films) Use a minimum of language (prefer visual images) Rarely follow narrative Often draw attention to themselves or to the film medium. You may see the camera itself choppy editing, numbered film frames, sprocket holes, etc...

24fps is typical speed of projected film Surrealism - A movement in 1920s and 1930s european art, drama, literature, and film in which an attempt made to portray or interpret the workings of the subconscious mind as manifested in dreams, - Characterized by an irrational, non contextual arrangement of subjects - Lends itself to experimental films - It has had a great influence on music videos Important Experimental Filmmakers - Luis Bunuel - Maya Deren - Stan Brakhage Meshes of the Afternoon - a short experimental film directed by wife and husband team Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid. - Circular and repeats several motifs including a flower on a long driveway, key falling, door unlocked, knife in a loaf of bread, a mysterious Grim Reaper- like cloaked figure with a mirror for a face Abstract Form - Organizes entire fims around colors, shapes, sizes and movements in the images. - Can seem completely random - Often organized through theme and variation - Intro section shows the base relationships the film will explore, and then other segments will show similar yet different kinds of relationships - Abstracts films are usually dependent on building greater and greater relationships Associational Form - A type of organization in which the film’s parts are juxtaposed to suggest similarities, contrasts, concepts, emotions, and expressive qualities Experimental Films by their very nature seek to subvert conventional expectations of film form and narrative. They tend to explore experiences and observations that can’t be visualized. The Girl Chewing Gum 16mm, 12mins, B/W, sound (John Smith) - Was made in ideological opposition to mainstream cinema

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Aim of the film was to undermine its inherent illusionism Draws attention to the cinematic apparatus by denying its existence, treating representation as an absolute reality in its own right Achieves this by using a voice over to subvert the reading of the image, marking the beginnings of my ongoing love/hate relationship with the power of the word

The Films of Kenneth Anger Scorpio Rising Kustom Kar Kommandos Invocation of My Demon Brother Rabbit’s Moon Lucifer Rising Forms of Experimental Films Abstract Form Surrealism Form Associational Form...