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what's new... 
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What is experimental cinema? Is it different from abstract or avant-garde cinemas, some are parts of others?
Well, my intention is not to define these terms, but the reason I am doing my study on experimental cinema is purely pased on my artistic (and academic) interest.
I spent a semester in Prague last year, and there, I had an opprtunity to get to know about Czech Experimental films and filmmakers. It was funny, even before I started to watch those films, I had an idea of making some abstract film project as my own record and document of my stay in Prague. The project took a form of double-projection of super8 and slides images on the screen both in B&W. Since I was the projector for both machines, and now I do not even remember the order of my slides, it was also an improvisation work, which i think helps to express the very raw feelings, emotions at the very moment.
The question I have brought back from Prague is why I wanted to, and still keep wanting to make those films using filmstocks? Never in my life I was so excited to just touch some things just scratching, painting, and projecting super8 film negatives. Had someone asked me the question before, I just would have answered because it just felt right. That was the only way I could make sense of something going on both inside and outside myself.
Now that I know that there have been some other filmmakers who have had a passion toward film stocks and filmmaking using the real films, I want to know about them as much as I could both theoretically and visually.
My goal is to understand the language of these films more fully, and by doing it, I will appreciate my works and myself more. After all, as far as I know at this point, all the films are very, painfully personal... |
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films i've watched this week... Harry Smith's earlier work
Limite
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