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Film theorist P. Adams Sitney offers a concept of "visionary film", and he invented a few genre categories, including the mythopoetic film, the structural film, the trance film and the participatory film, in order to describe the historical morphology of experimental cinema in the American avant-garde from 1943 to the 2000s.
An art film, art cinema, or arthouse film is typically an independent film, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience. [1] It is "intended to be a serious, artistic work, often experimental and not designed for mass appeal", [ 2 ] "made primarily for aesthetic reasons rather than commercial profit", [ 3 ] and containing ...
A film still of 1961 non-narrative abstract film Conversation in Space by Rodolfo Paras-Perez. [1] Non-narrative film is an aesthetic of cinematic film that does not narrate, or relate "an event, whether real or imaginary". It is usually a form of art film or experimental film, not made for mass entertainment.
Circa 1948 is an interactive art installation that STAN Douglas created with the National Film Board of Canada. Circa 1948 is also an interactive app for iOS devices.
"Film theory" seeks to develop concise and systematic concepts that apply to the study of film as art. The concept of film as an art-form began in 1911 with Ricciotto Canudo's manifest The Birth of the Sixth Art. The Moscow Film School, the oldest film school in the world, was founded in 1919, in order to teach about and research film theory.
The use of film as an art form traces its origins to several earlier traditions in the arts such as (oral) storytelling, literature, theatre and visual arts. Cantastoria and similar ancient traditions combined storytelling with series of images that were shown or indicated one after the other.
A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, since the 1930s, synchronized with sound and (less commonly) other sensory stimulations.
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