Re: [Frameworks] Drama films and the Avant-Garde

From: gregg biermann (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Jan 27 2011 - 07:20:40 PST


> In the indie world, the line between the avant-garde feature and the conventional breaks down. Where do we put Almereyda or the mumblecore stuff? (Hamlet has a bit more than just the Lewis Klahr footage and the fact the Prince is characterized as an 'experimental filmmaker'.)
> Off the top of my head though, it strikes me that the turn experimental work took in the 70s is more resistant to incorporation/inspiration for narrative features. I can't think of commercial features that borrow from Snow ...
>
David -- I think that both points are right -- the lines are even blurry
with the 1970's stuff because you have "Jeanne Dielman" -- which is a
narrative feature and also radical and comes directly out of Snow,
etc... but yes -- it is even blurrier now.

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