Avant-garde is a French word meaning “a head of crowd”, its experimental techniques of creating unconventional films that bring forth new ideas and forms of filming.
They are seen to be before their time using a lot of experimentation in narrative or manipulation during editing its a radical separation from norms, codes and conventions. Avant-garde is a film makers expression focus on lyrical, abstract, formal beauty it avoids conventions of narrative. Abstract films have been referred to as “absolute” film mocking conventions and traditional values film makers interest in eccentricities and extremes may shock the viewer the purpose of this art is to challenge and wake up the audience from the usual ordinary material that they view.
Meshes of the Afternoon directed by Maya Derendand Alexander Hammis
1943
17 minutes
This was the first major American avant-garde film to be created made with Alexander “Sasha” Hammid it was Mara Deren’s most successful film.
Gloria L. Floren. (25 April 1998). Avant-Garde (Experimental) Films . Available: http://www.miracosta.cc.ca.us/home/gfloren/f-avant.htm. Last accessed 29/01/2010
Eileen Elsey and Andrew Kelly (2002). In Short, A guide to Fil-making in the Digital Age. British Film Institute: BFI Publising. 18.
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