Avant Garde Cinema
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Avant Garde Cinema
ESSAY 1: AVANT-GARDE CINEMA
The avant-garde movement, which was one of the most controversial art movements, began in France in the 1850s. It has taken the face of various domains, from literature to art to politics. The avant-garde movement, in its film form, developed in the 1920s, primarily in France, when motion pictures became the new art of the twentieth century. It also owes its existence in great part to the immensely powerful effect of trauma that the Great War had left on the artists, and society in general. The expression "avant-garde," which is of French origin, is a military metaphor, literally meaning, "advance-guard." It was a term used in France during the Middle Ages, where the men would forge ahead and take unforeseen risks.
In the same way, the aim of the avant-garde cinema was to challenge the clear-cut rules of the traditional films, and its rationalism and its realism, and the values held by society as a whole -- a culture dominant of the upper crust, elite, bourgeois -- freeing themselves from the demands and constraints of commercial film-making conventions, and broadening the perspective of a close-minded society. Avant-garde explored the limits of cinema by radical and innovative ways films could be made, and the ways stories could be told; it was political, experimental, progressive, counter-cultural, alternative, modernistic, futuristic, confrontational, shocking, and provocative. Certain artistic movements within the avant-garde movement itself were more intense in different parts of the world: such as futurism in Italy, expressionism in Germany, and surrealism in France. These individual artistic movements, along with many more, all with their own unique characteristics, grouped together as a collective, became known as the avant-garde movement.
The film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, made in 1919 by director Robert Wiene, is the most prominent example of German Expressionism. Expressionism was a...
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