Avant Garde Films

· Avant-garde films are usually what are produced by film students, and those who tend to be experimental and artistic.
· Because short film couldn’t compete with Hollywood and the mainstream film industry, it found its own home as art
· Avant Garde cinemas take a strong interest in short films. An example of a short film maker is Maya Deren; she made films from the 1940’s-1961 and displayed highly individualistic sensibility to short films. “Meshes of the afternoon” set the tone for USA Avant Garde filmmaking. She took on an anti-mainstream stance in her artistic license and creative freedom
· Examples of Avant Garde films are “Meshes of the afternoon”; this film was displayed in the Tate Modern and had a lot of manipulation of time and space, and defiance to continuity. “The Berlin Horse”; this film was made in the 1970’s and is merely just a film of a horse running about and changing colour. Although a very simplistic and repetitive film, it is considered as an Avant Garde film.