Avant Garde Films
Subject Overview
Students will explore the basic concepts and ideas behind Avant Garde films and why twenty four filmmakers began pushing the boundaries of filmmaking. Students will learn about the meaning of ‘Avant Garde’ and study techniques such as montage, split screen, dissolves, superimposing, and more through the work of Salvador Dali, Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein. Students will also examine some modern experimental films of today, and how filmmakers experiment with filmmaking to create meaning.
Learning Outcomes
- Articulate the meaning of Avant Garde as well as the context of the first Avant Garde films and why filmmakers were making surrealist films
- Identify Avant Garde filmmaking techniques pioneered by Vertov, Eisenstein and Dali
- Identify magical realist moments in film and draw parallels between Dali, Bunel and Vertov’s work in today’s magical realist films.
- Identify intertextual references within modern texts like Shrek
Prerequistes
Subject one: Film History Fundamentals