Experimental film, experimental cinema, or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that rigorously re-evaluates cinematic conventions and explores non-narrative forms or alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working. What makes a movie avant-garde?
What's New Pussycat: Directed by Clive Donner. With Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine. A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is h
With this open framework, the “Dickson Experimental Sound Film” features cinema’s first queer images, regardless of original intent. It’s a beautiful coincidence that they were captured in 1895, the very same year that Oscar Wilde was put on trial and imprisoned for gross indecency. That t...
Adorn is such a beautifully playful film that doesn’t shy away from being seriously hot. The connection between these two performers is intense. Incidentally, Parker and Sadie also appear in some of our films here at Bright Desire. The descriptions: An experimental erotic game. A man and a...
The Officeis a good example of this device, as well asWaiting for GuffmanandThis Is Spinal Tap. Like the epistolic narrative device but for film, this allows the characters to share their inner monologue directly with the audience during the events of the story, something that was not previo...
And that makes a great excuse to present a photo-shoot from my visit. This focuses on the “mammal floor” below the entrance- the upper floor(s?) are still being completed and will have the birds, non-avian tetrapods, fish, etc. But the UMZC is strong in mammals and so it is na...
Composed of eight tracks with bizarre, lengthy titles, the lyriclessNew Blue Sunis labeled as new-age and experimental jazz. It’s fairly shocking that André 3000 is not a trained musician, given the project’s brilliance; led primarily by rhythm, and using his instinctsdevelopedfrom rapping...
This experimental satire is a comedy of ideas about an alien in the city, who asks questions that no one has asked before. They are innocent, child-like questions, but they bring about catastrophic answers. People who are set in their ways for generations, are forced to reappraise their wor...
They may even find a film that sounds excellent but still choose the one they are not as interested in but have heard the name of more often. There can be thousands of examples of how people choose the option they feel more comfortable with due to feeling it is the “path of least ...
Ask him what he would think of someone who watched The Imitation Game and then spouted off about how he doesn't think cryptanalysis makes any sense. No matter how hard you try you simply cannot condense decades of study and knowledge into a two hour film. The same applies to pop-sci....