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.
Duration
- Contact Hours: 3 hours per week
- Total Hours: 30
- Duration: 10 weeks
Aims
- Explore the meaning of Avant Garde and the concepts of new and experimental ideas to progress art, music and literature.
- Investigate the key historical figures who experimented with filmmaking and how those experimentations impacted other filmmakers and artists of today.
- Uncover the development of filmmaking techniques pioneered by Avant Garde filmmakers by drawing attention to the use of montage, slow motion, magic realism, surrealism and other techniques that are features of this filmmaking process.
- Observe and distinguish the presence of intertextuality in film