Avant Garde

Avant garde are sometimes viewed as cinematic poetry. The mainly abstract style endears and intrigues film critics; the films purposely avoid conventions of normal films and film narratives

The French term avant garde is translated as “ahead of the crowd” in English. So avant garde film makes strive to come up with new films ideas, dealing with subjects and the surreal which has never been touched on before. They experiment with sound, camera techniques and expressions making them as artistic as possible whilst leading a strand. So a avant garde film is characterized with a high a degree of experimentation, which a allows it to look different which often comes with a manipulation of the narrative primary compounds or sometimes a radical change from the norms / conventions of the current times.

David Curtis in 1971 popularized a new term for the films called “Experimental cinema” with the sense that the experiments to explore how the camera can emulate or enhance visual perceptions.

Most renowned directors for Avant Garde films is Maya Deren. The Ukrainian used some of the inheritance from her father to purchase her camera. She used this camera to make her first and best-known film “Meshes of the Afternoon” which is about a solitary flower on a long driveway, a key falling, a door unlocked, a knife in a loaf of bread, a phone off the hook

I dont really know what to say about the film except it is very weird and I don't really know how to anlaylis it.  The film obviously has a deeper meaning than what we see.

As a powerful self promoter, Deren did many things to support avant garde. she  wrote articles and books, made avantgarde films, helt "lecture study demonstrations". She even created a scholarship for experimental and avant garde filmmakers, called Creative Film Foundatiom.He post war effort were instrumental in drawing out other avant garde film directors.