OUGD401 - Lecture notes: Avante-Garde Cinema

• In opposition to Mainstream cinema
• Non-linear/non figurative/none narrative
• Open rather than closed
• Requires a different kind of spectatorship

• Un Chien Andalon (1929)

• Matthew Barney - The Cemaster 3 (2002)

• Oskar Fischinger - Spirals (1926) - early abstract cinema

• James Whiting - Lapis (1966)

• Stan Brockhage - Black Ice (1994) - short - hand made - scratched/painted onto reel
• Mothlight (1963) - uses moth & wings instead of paint/scratches
• Hyprogogin vision - moment between waking & sleeping - where everything is confusing & nothing makes sense

• Andy Warhol - Empire - static camera filming Empire state building for 10 hrs

• Outside Capitalism

• Doesn't get shown because it's radical & doesn't make any money