Tendencies in Experimental Film and Video
- The filmmakers or videomakers were part of a larger community of artists, writers, dancers, painters, poets, musicians
- Auteurs: artists who extend the ideas of their work into film/video
- Counter the illusionistic or conventionalized aspects of film/video
- To “unsocialize” the eye-help us see outside the grid
- Self-reflexive: the turning of an artwork’s focus back on itself so as to reveal and comment upon it’s own construction or formal attributes
- To be subversive or provocative
- To explore subjectivities-the audience to the film, the maker to his or her creation
- Interaction-to make work which gives the audience an interactive experience, breaking down the boundaries between art work and audience