avant-garde film index

Supported by a Carnegie-Whitney Grant from the American Library Association.

#Slow-Cinema

  • Style of film that subverts conventional understandings of time by opting for extremely long takes, often with minimal action

#Looping/Repetition

  • Technique in which the same sequence in repeated to produce meaning; somewhat common in art installations and works affiliated with digital culture

#Nonlinear/Associative Editing

  • Editing technique that subverts traditional understandings of narrative causality, often opting instead for fragmentation

#Jump-Cuts/Temporal-Disruption

  • Editing technique that disrupts traditional understandings of time by deliberately breaking away from continuity (narrative consistency)