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Dada and Surrealist Films
















"flim as film"

alternative ways of seeing--challenge the major codes

!avant-garde cinema is more relevant to modern and postmodern art than history of cinema...

"instead of the visual image, experimental films centers itself on the passage of time..." ----?

cinema in 20s -- suppliment art work
in 60s -- film as art on its own

avant-garde
experiments in 'light play' ... rooted in the cubist rev.
CUBISM >conceptual jump, expantion of artistic form and material


the idea of "an autonomous art"

perceptual word =\= natural signs

indivisual author ship

time is about duration, flow of continuity

emergence of cine club and art journals

Absolute Film ... absolute control of form and rythm