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?
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...
Before we get into the examples, let me say this: if you’re interested in experimental writing, the cutting edge in fiction and the kind of work that can win you literary awards, narrative device has consistently been the literary technique in which to play—more so than nearly any other ...
Hope and love are popular themes of literature and art in many human societies. The human physiology of love and hope is less well understood. This review presents evidence that the lack of love and/or hope delays growth disturbs development and maturati
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....
What makes a Pharrell joint a Pharrell joint? Many have noted the stripped-back economy of his deceptively simple productions, which combine a handful of essential elements into tracks that become more than the sum of their parts; “skeleton songs”, Pharrell once called them. "I was really ...
A link between the film and Pasolini’s murder was suspected and investigated by authorities but never proven. A beginner’s guide to experimental filmmaking Experimental filmmaking often overlaps with this movement. Though typically far less controversial than the most extreme avant-garde efforts, expe...
Runway has set up an annualAI film festivalthat showcasesexperimental moviesmade with a range of AI tools. This year’s festival has a $60,000 prize pot, and the 10 best films will be screened in New York and Los Angeles. It’s no surprise that top studios are taking notice. Movie ...
For instance, this is how the Film Noir preset looks like: How Does Sora Work? Like text-to-image generative AI models such as DALL·E 3, StableDiffusion, and Midjourney, Sora is a diffusion model. That means that it starts with each frame of the video consisting of static noise...
Continuity errors aren’t always a mistake. Sometimes even great directors and film editors choose to keep a flawed take because it was the best performance of a given scene. And sometimes discontinuity is just what the filmmaker was after. Ifcontinuitymeans the logical presentation of a rational...