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Topic: Experimental film


  
  Experimental film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An experimental film is a film organized neither as narrative fiction nor as non-fiction.
As such, film scholars consider the experimental or avant-garde film to be one of the major modes of filmmaking, along with the narrative film, the documentary film and arguably animation.
Though experimental film is known to a relatively small number of practitioners, academics and connoisseurs, it has influenced and continues to influence cinematography, visual effects and editing.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Experimental_film   (1488 words)

  
 Experimental Film (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Experimental Film is a song by They Might Be Giants.
The video itself is a parody of experimental films and is ostensibly "directed" by Strong Sad and The Cheat.
The video is full of references to other experimental films (such as Un chien andalou, Man with the Movie Camera and Fight Club).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Experimental_Film_(song)   (332 words)

  
 Film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Film is considered by many to be an important art form; films entertain, educate, enlighten and inspire audiences.
Stock widths and the film format for images on the reel have had a rich history, though most large commercial films are still shot on (and distributed to theaters) as 35 mm prints.
Film preservation of decaying film stock is a matter of concern to both film historians and archivists, and to companies interested in preserving their existing products in order to make them available to future generations (and thereby increase revenue).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Film   (3741 words)

  
 Film-Philosophy
Films about hobbies, games and toys, stratigraphic cinema, digital projection and the flicker effect, emptied 'busy' places, Bollywood, direct address to camera, feminist films, films representing the revolutionary sixties, films about the early film industry, films that help illustrate Kant's Ethics, and the genre of the tragedy.
emotions and ethics of Dogme films, cinema and psychiatry, interpreting interpretations, zombie films, "freaks" in film, children in film, headaches in film, Mikhail Bahktin, and the theoretical and institutional dimensions of film criticism.
films that begin with an ongoing event or action, representations of the act of writing, films which predict the future, the appeal and effects of popcorn cinema, films that deal with genocide, post-gaming interactive 'uncinema', Antonioni and the aesthetic of boredom, and definitions of 'pretentiousness'.
www.film-philosophy.com   (1434 words)

  
 Peripheral Produce | Experimental Film and Video
Films on this compilation have screened at venues such as the Sundance Film Festival and the Whitney Biennial, and offer a diverse selection of new, contemporary experimental cinema.
His films are vast and expansive and take you on a road trip across the back roads of forgotten places.
His films have won many awards and screened at nearly every film festival on the planet, he has received both Rockefeller and Creative Capital grants, and in November 2003, the Museum of Modern Art presented a retrospective of his work.
www.peripheralproduce.com   (530 words)

  
 Experimental Films
Their films were only shown at art galleries and film societies, and never had very wide distribution.
The film is shot on one such island, and utilizes its spectacular scenery: trees, water, beaches.
Some experimental photographic techniques are used as well: the tracks with a multi-lensed camera through the theater, and the opening shots of the downtown at night, shot with a process that produces glowing metallic colors.
members.aol.com /MG4273/exper.htm   (9800 words)

  
 Film: Avant-Garde
Avant-garde films are often iconoclastic, mocking conventional morality and traditional values; the filmmaker's intense interest in eccentricities and extremes may shock for the viewers.
Indeed, the avant-garde film maker’s purpose may be to wake or shake up the audience from the stupor of ordinary consciousness or the doldrums of conventional perspective.
A film interrogating the role of authority, the lure of the charismatic leader (be he rock star or fascist dictator); the film shows the way individual identity and conscience is lost when the group takes over, and that group identification can lead individuals to extremes of passivity and brutality.
www.miracosta.cc.ca.us /home/gfloren/F-avant.htm   (3033 words)

  
 Dickson Experimental Sound Film 1895
An Edison film from 1895 of William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (the real inventor of motion pictures at Edison's lab) playing a violin into a big megaphone, with two of Edison's guys dancing.
Problem was the film was shot at 40fps, not 24, and the sound was running wild on a cracked 1890's cylinder.
It was very moving, when the sound finally fell into synch: the scratchiness of the image and the sound dissolved away and you felt the immediate presence of these young men playing around with a fast-emerging technology.
www.filmsound.org /murch/dickson.htm   (404 words)

  
 Avant-garde, Underground, and Experimental Cinema: A Selected Bibliography/Videography of Materials in the UC Berkeley ...
As both film and tape become technical anachronisms, their memory and legacy open the door for a second reading, and the positioning of the viewer becomes significant as changing operation systems structure inscribed memories differently in the retrieval and fabrication of memorable events.
Experimental film director Arnold dissects existing film footage and alters the flow of the film to point out the socio-economic meanings.
C.S. recalls the burgeoning West Coast experimental film scene in the 1960's and speaks of her depiction of women, her antipathy towards feminism or any structured 'movement', and the importance of anthropological studies to her work; plus an examination of Strand's resistance to theory and her idiosyncratic use of the hand-held camera.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/avantbib.html   (11660 words)

  
 MA Experimental Film - Postgraduate Courses - University of Central Lancashire
MA Experimental Film - Postgraduate Courses - University of Central Lancashire
This course is for film makers and recent graduates who wish to explore the area of experimental film from both practical and critical/theoretical approaches.
The course will cover: history and critical ideas that underpin the area; practical modules in which aesthetic and technical experimentation will be undertaken; audience and distribution issues; research projects.
www.uclan.ac.uk /courses/pg/files/faexfi.htm   (129 words)

  
 D-Light + MM2 = Dutch Experimental Film
Zwartjes' numerous, often erotically charged, performances on film with his life partner Trix and others are subtle and considered permutations of the space, gesture and posture that constitutes their film-based personas.
This film is not about distance but about duration: a particularly enticing statement to make in a spatially challenged European state with a significant history.
You will look in vain for a film which is based on purely visual situations whose actions spring from stimuli addressed to the eye and is founded in the essential qualities of eyesight, untrammelled by psychological or irrelevant complications or by a verbal story expressed in visual terms (1).
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/05/34/dutch_experimental.html   (3190 words)

  
 Open Directory - Arts: Movies: Filmmaking: Experimental   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Czech Experimental Film - Information and catalogue on contemporary Czech experimental cinema and video, mostly from Prague.
Film and Video Art - A collection of information on film and video art and artists, including lists of work, bibliographies, biographies, and links.
Projector Films - Short, Experimental Film Makers based in the UK with contacts around the globe.
dmoz.org /Arts/Movies/Filmmaking/Experimental   (390 words)

  
 Bright Lights Film Journal | Experimental and Avant-Garde Cinema
The Kuchar Brothers — Major figures in the American Underground film movement of the 'sixties, George and Mike Kuchar are the acknowledged pioneers of the camp/pop aesthetic that would influence practically all who came after them, from Warhol and Waters to Vadim and Lynch.
Oskar Fischinger — By 1935, the films of avant-garde animator Oskar Fischinger were being shown on cinema screens and at film festivals throughout the world as the last word in modernism.
Barbara Hammer's Tender Fictions — Barbara Hammer is best known for her groundbreaking experimental film Nitrate Kisses (1992), which fearlessly broke two taboos by showing older lesbians in extended erotic embrace, all in richly detailed fl and white.
www.brightlightsfilm.com /experimental.html   (859 words)

  
 U B U W E B : Film
UbuWeb is pleased to present dozens of avant-garde films for your viewing pleasure.
Thankfully, there is the internet which allows you to get a whiff of these films regardless of your geographical location.
We realize that the films we are presenting are of poor quality.
www.ubu.com /film   (1095 words)

  
 Experimental Film - Homestar Runner Wiki
The scene with the film apparently burning (the one that Homestar credits to Strong Sad loading the film wrong) is a reference to Bergman's Persona.
Another Hitchcock film nod is made to Vertigo, when Strong Sad falls out of the film and into a descending spiral of presidential faces.
The visuals that occur during the Experimental Film.
www.hrwiki.org /index.php/Experimental_Film   (2555 words)

  
 YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
A music video to the song "Experimental Film" by They Might be Giants...
The music is exclusively from the Silent Hill games, which is also the inspiration for the style of this short film.
Short film experimental experimentation symbolism Silent Hill slow motion mariachi
www.youtube.com /results?search=experimental   (425 words)

  
 Film Festivals Experimental Filmmaking Movies Arts
CUFF presents films and videos that dissent radically in form, technique or content.
Ambitious, low-budget, psychotronic/ substream, off-beat, creative, original, do-it-yourself, daring, underground films and videos from all over the world.
This yearly event is part of the New York Film Festival at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
www.iaswww.com /ODP/Arts/Movies/Filmmaking/Experimental/Film_Festivals   (180 words)

  
 Peripheral Produce | Portland Documentary and eXperimental Film Festival
Fresh from screenings at the Whitney Biennial and the Cannes Film Festival, Martha will be presenting a collection of her recent experimental animations and offering a filmmaking workshop.
Out of Sync is a satellite exhibition to the PDX Film Fest featuring video work that exists outside of the cinematic experience.
Portland super-bloggers Urban Honking will be covering the PDX Film Fest, giving play-by-play analysis and covering the event like it’s never been covered before.
www.peripheralproduce.com /pdxff.php   (634 words)

  
 Experimental Film - This Might Be A Wiki
Experimental Film - This Might Be A Wiki
It doesn't have much to do with TMBG lore, but they do refer to Them as "Super Giants," "Supreme Giants," and "That one right there with the glasses", and make continual references to the skull.
See the hrwiki.org entry on this song: Experimental Film
www.tmbw.net /wiki/index.php/Experimental_Film   (140 words)

  
 Open Directory - Arts: Movies: Filmmaking: Experimental: Filmmakers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Kathy Rose - Kathy Rose creates her own animated and live action film projections intricately integrating herself within them in live performance to create a fascinating poetic "alternate universe".
Len Lye - Pioneered 'direct film', film made without a camera by painting and scratching directly onto celluloid.
Patrick Halm and Marie Rafalko - Experimental Film and Minimal Painting.
dmoz.org /Arts/Movies/Filmmaking/Experimental/Filmmakers   (1339 words)

  
 In Loving Memory of Our Friend Terry Crummitt aka SnackBoy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
And yet he was a man of contrasts: it was always amusing to try to reconcile his alter-boy looks to his passion for learning all he could about horror movies.
There was a time when Terry and I talked often, hung out, watched movies, dished on Hollywood, and traded lines from films and generally had a great time together.
I feel that we are lucky to have so many moments of Terry's life immortalized on film and in Snackboy segments.
www.thesync.com   (8331 words)

  
 aafilmfest.org
The Ann Arbor Film Festival would like to thank all the audience members who attended the festival this last week.
If you are interested in volunteering or an internship with the Ann Arbor Film Festival, email us at at volunteer@aafilmfest.org for more information.
The festival’s mission is to provide a worldwide public forum for moving image exhibitions, to encourage and showcase artists of the moving image, to promote the moving image as art, and to offer educational outreach.
www.aafilmfest.org   (445 words)

  
 Avant-Garde/Experimental Film Webring
Presented are his films, photography, sound/music, the out-of-order project and more...
A collection of information on film and video art and artists, including lists of work, bibliographies, biographies, and links.
Canyon Cinema is the most enduring and successful organization of filmmakers dedicated to the distribution, promotion, education and preservation of film as art.
n.webring.com /hub?ring=avantgardefilm   (747 words)

  
 Lyrics:Experimental Film - This Might Be A Wiki
Lyrics:Experimental Film - This Might Be A Wiki
The color of infinity inside an empty glass I'm squinting my eye and turning off And on and on and off the light It's for this experimental film Which nobody knows about And which I'm still figuring out What's going to go in my experimental film?
This page was last modified 22:20, 11 Apr 2006.
www.tmbw.net /wiki/index.php/Lyrics:Experimental_Film   (63 words)

  
 Michele Grant, Experimental Film
Other film formats do not lend themselves to this kind of result.
You mean, you actually use a splicer and film cement, and draw pictures on eight-millimeter frames of film?
the best rock-and-roll superhero comedy film ever; the Greater Philadelphia Film Office, helping both big and small productions get their movies made in Philly; Knappuccino's Coffeehouse, a hip, quiet venue for songwriters to play their music to attentive audiences monthly; Melodyvision, a full-service music, sound, and recording facility; N.
www.sangfroid.com /super8.html   (483 words)

  
 Other Interesting Links
Here are some links that showcase, discuss or in some way relate to alternative film and video, as well as a few personal favorites thrown in for flavor.
Film Festival -- Gainesville, Georgia's festival for fringe filmmakers of all genres, genders and film formats
Seattle Underground Film Festival -- bringing you the very best of avant garde, experimental and offbeat short and feature films from around the world...
www.hi-beam.net /links.html   (6034 words)

  
 The 7th Annual Coachella Film Festival
On behalf of the creators, producers and staff of the 7th Annual Coachella Independent Film Festival, thank you Coachella attendees, filmmakers, film festival sponsors and especially Goldenvoice for another incredible year at Coachella!
A big thank you as well to Stewart Copeland, director of "Everybody Stares: The Police Inside Out" for a truly entertaining and engaging Q&A on Sunday afternoon in the film festival's tent!
We hope you enjoyed this year's program of what we believe is the greatest hand picked feature films, documentaries, short films, animation, concert footage and music videos ever to converge the mediums of music and motion pictures!
www.coachellafilmfestival.com   (119 words)

  
 Avant-Garde/Experimental Film WebRing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This Avant-Garde/Experimental Film Webring site owned by Joel Schemowitz.
Visit the Experimental Film category in the Open Directory Project:
The Experimental Film Webring is no longer accepting sites.
homepage.newschool.edu /~schlemoj/experimental_film_ring.html   (38 words)

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