[Frameworks] Experimental Documentary

Sam Wells silverfilm at gmail.com
Mon Jul 19 13:05:02 CDT 2010


  (......experimental film's hegemonic grip on world cinema).
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Shhhhh  ;-)

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> But unlike Fred, I wouldn't equate a tradition with a genre. I don't think
> "genre" is an appropriate term for experimental film. A genre is
> recognizable by more or less consistent characteristics of form and style,
> and I don't believe that experimental film can be unified by such
> characteristics.
>

I wish you were right, but I'm sorry I think it_has_ become a genre....
should I really list the formalisms ?

Maybe I'll just say that there's a reason I'm so enthusiastic about
"Rehearsals For Retirement"; for "No Quarto da Vanda"  ?  For "Tension/The
Void" even ???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Void_(video_game)

we could talk about the "after and the montage era"    "the end of the
scroll"

-Sam

-Sam
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