The reading by MacDonald titled "Intro to Avante Garde Film" examines how cinema builds its own devices and grammar and over time a language has developed. He draws attention to the fact that we have probably seen hundreds of films and television programs by the time we see a single avante garde film. This makes me believe you should see at least one hundred experimental films before you can fairly compare the two styles of filmmaking. Who knows, if we had seen both genres equally we might actually believe the non-linear experimental style is more natural for the way our brains work. In fact, most experimental films mimic our dream state more closely than typical Hollywood blockbusters. And the dreaming mind is often the first type of fiction that individuals experience.
I also found it very interesting that the Luminere (spelling?) brothers were selling cameras when they made their first films and the simplicity of these films could very well have been to keep demonstrations simple for sales purposes. It is interesting to think that we hold their films in reverence for their glorification of simple everyday life but in reality, these films may have been intended to be used in more of an infomercial context.
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