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Section D: Film Movements - Experimental Film 1960-2000 (single-film study)
- Vivre sa vie (Godard, France, 1962), 1960s European avant-garde
- Daisies (Chytilova, Czechoslovakia, 1965), 1960s European avant-garde
- Saute ma ville (Akerman, Belgium, 1968), 1960s European avant-garde
- Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, US, 1994), Postmodern film in the 1990s live!
- Fallen Angels (Wong, Hong Kong, 1995), East Asian new wave
- Timecode (Figgis, US, 2000), Digital experimentation
Context
In his essay The Art Cinema As A Mode of Film Practice film scholar David Bordwell explains that “we can usefully consider the ‘art cinema’ as a distinct mode of film practice, possessing a definite historical existence, a set of formal conventions, and implicit viewing procedures….In the long run, the art cinema descends from the early film d’art and such silent national cinema schools as German Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit and French Impressionism…the art cinema as a distinct mode appears after…
