The text we received in our seminar that explores Experimental Film into some detail, puts across many examples of what makes a film experiemental, what defines it, what techiniques are seen and used, as well as many texts that are considered experiemental.
The text expreses how experimental film steps away from mainstream cinema, and explore a director's perspective and personal experience rather than creatinga piece that features a set narrative. Freedom is greatly increased when creating experiemental film, as a director is able to create anything he or she may be experiencing or thinking of. I believe what the text says is correct in terms of defining what experimental film-making is, as well as the texts/examples it puts across.
Abstract film-making is discussed and shows how something that may be looked over, can sometimes be the main point in the film. For example the 'Railroad Turnbridge', a video that features the turnbridge mechanism and how it moves/interracts within our world. The text explores how in other cases the location or 'mechanism' may be used in a narrative, for example an action sequence in-which cars are chasing each other. However the centre of attention is greatly shifted, and focuses on the mechanism itself. I feel examples like these help us understand what sets experimental film apart from other types of more 'linear', mainstream work. More examples of abstract work include the use of colours and shapes; how they can be manipulated/positioned to create a new image or perception.
Little interest is sometimes shown towards experimental film. Some critics perceive it as an excuse for 'art'.. I'm unsure to whether i agree or not with this statement. I can appreciate/understand many examples of experimental film, by the techniques they use to portrey a message to the audience, or the sheer originality that shares almost no common factors with texts i've seen before.
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