In Scott MacDonald’s article, he speaks about avant-garde films. He reflects on the lost of such a fine form of cinema and the creation of commercial film that has over shadowed one of the beginning forms of cinema. Most people don’t get to experience avant-garde films in there originality and don’t get to see this until their late teens or some may never experience it.
When I look at film I see more then just actors, direction, props and lighting. I’m looking at the art of the film. The way the film maker structured the film from their mind. How they see and view the world they live in. As a young film maker I see it fit to go back and look at those before you and learn from the ones that crafted the thing you love and hop to create of your own.
A group of filmmakers in the article questioned commercial cinemas failure to connect to people spiritually like music and maybe in a way a painting may do. I think that commercial film has the same effect of connecting to people the way any form of media art does. It’s depends on the individual that is taking in the art. I have watched commercial film and felt a connection with the film. Cinema has undoubtedly this day and age, became very formulaic and predictive. Maybe that is because in the 1920’s cinema was just really starting. Narratives and new ideas were developing. Now we fast forward a few years ahead and some film makers are recycling the same old stuff.
Since being in college I have learned to appreciate all forms of film, no matter what shape or form it is in. Avant-garde cinema will never diminish or fade away as long as there are people willing to pick it up and learn from it. I don’t believe any form of cinema is a failure because it eventually evolves into something more.
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