- In opposition to mainstream cinema, attempt to be everything Hollywood cinema is not.
- Non Linear/ Non figurative/ Non narrative. Only unwatchable because of mainstream cinema.
- Open rather than closed.
- Requires a different kind of spectatorship, open to interpretation.
Films
Un Chien Andalou (1929) Dir. Luis Benuel
Massively influentual, starting point of radical cinema.
Cremaster (2002) Matthew Barney
Going on a quest to climb up and meet richard cerra.
Spirals (1926) Oskar Fischinger
Lapis (1966) James Whitney
Film at the same speed as the brain waves when at rest. Tendency in the 60's to concentrate on optics especially cosmic.
Black ice (1994) Stan Brakhage
Mothlight (1963) Stan Brakhage
Brakhage calls his film making hypgoging
All films in their own ways are challenging and radical, we as artists are supposed to be radical. Design schools are prooving grounds for experimentals and radicals, places where rule books are ripped up and thrown out the window. The same applies to these films, they're anti hollywood and anti cinema. In a way they're outside capitalism.