DADAISM- SURREALISM

THEMES: GENERAL IDEA ABOUT LIFE AND SOCIETY, MANKIND, WHAT THE STORY IS ABOUT. ART COVEYED BY A NARRATIVE TEXT

EG: THEMES in ATONEMENT - regret, redemption, no second chance in life. Loss of innocence, difference between seeing and believing

MOTIF – RECURRIGN ELEMENTS, IMAGES, MUSIC, PATTERN ACTIONS THAT ARE REPEATED THROUGH A NARRATIVE TEXT AND HAVE SUMBOLIC SIGNIFICANSE.

In atonement it was - water, typewriter sound

EDITIGN IN ATTOENMENT:

1. 1^ST time many of the scenes are perception, 2^nd time it is reality

2.Cross cutting.

NARRATIVE CINEMA; It tells a story by connecting events and following the developing actions of one or more character.

Traditional novels and plays, invisibility of story telling process.

Non – narrative movies are JUST IT.

Classic mainstream cinema is: editing = continuity + invisibility.

Avant Garde cinema: 1910 – 1920

NON-narrative trends – surrealism and Dadaism.

Reaction against

TRADITIONAL ART FORM

AESTHETIC EDITING

NARRATING

E.g. – man ray, water rutterman,

Asker fischinger

Movies – berlin, symphony of great city in 1927 by Walter rutterman.

Sometimes referred to as cinematic painting and optimal music.

Avant-garde movement was primarily formalist artists, who were more graphic in nature, Oskar fishinger as a great animation Avant – garde artist in cinema.

SURREALISM: ANDRE BRENTON, - USE OF DREAM LOGIC TO GET SOME MEANING THAT IS BEYOND THE LITERAL UNDERSTANDING, SOMETHING THAT CAN NEVER BE EXACTLY PINNED DOWN OR TRANSILATED INTO RATIONAL TERMS.

DADAISM- MOST OFTEN HAD NO MEANING, JUST FORMAL CONSTRUCTS.

Surrealism has some meaning or psychoanalysis, Salvador Dali.

E.g.: David lynch movies, in 2006 – inland empire.

ACAN GARDE CAN BE SEEN AS REVENGE OF POETS AND PAINTERS WHO MAKE OF THE MOVIGN IMAGES THE MAIN CHARACTER OF THE FILM.