Experimental Cinem The Experimental Film Movement

From the beginning of film filmmakers were using the platform to tell people stories, so that people could go be entertained and lose themselves in the experience of seeing the film. Though this form of filmmaking was entertaining for most people, some filmmakers wanted to break this tradition and expand filmmaking into a completely different way. Instead of making the same old narrative films, like classical Hollywood, they want to make more abstract and complex films, they wanted to make films as more of an art-form. Instead of relying on actors and writes to tell a narrative story, these filmmakers wanted to change things up and make films that went against the norms of the Hollywood cinema. They wanted to experiment with different methods of filming, more imaginative and inventive forms. They also wanted their films to have meanings and express what they, the artist, were feeling and how they viewed the world. From this a new film movement was born, the experimental film movement . Experimental cinema first emerged in the early 1900s â€Å"out of a wider social movements to speak of silenced or dissident voices† (Rees, 2011). During these time filmmakers were getting tired of the tradition methods of making films and wanted to go against the norms. Experimental filmmakers would make their films â€Å"outside the film industry† (Thompson and Bordwell, 2009) by producing the funds for the film themselves so that they didn’t have to abide by the rules of the big studios. Instead of