Avant Garde
“Ahead of the crowd”, “cutting edge”, “experimental”
One of the main directors associated with avant garde is Maya Deren, coined sometimes as the mother of Avant Garde. She wanted to break conventions of mainstream and create pieces which people wouldn’t be able to put in any category, and as she was at her peak in the 1940s-50s this would have been very unusual.
“Anti mainstream stance within her films promotes the idea of artistic license‘Meshes of the afternoon’ (1943)
and creative freedom”
Small notes on the film:
· Flower- could indicate something precious, like life
· Effects on film well before it’s time (slow motion style running, cuts, when she falls out of window)
· Tunnel vision, music becomes darker
· Grim reaper (mirror face), could represent that she is the one killing herself, it’s her reflection in the face of the grim reaper- like character
· Theme of death,dreaming (objects not in logical places)
· Something’s happened during the day, and it’s being pieced together in a non-logical way in her dreams
· Suicide, comptemplating whether she wants to actually do it (knife,table,key)
· Sacrificial style music heard during
Youtube- (http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=wiNyxt71RZs&feature=related)
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