FILM-4453 (3) Elective Affinities: Avant-Garde Film and the Arts

Traces the history and aesthetics of avant-garde/ experimental films in light of similar ideas found in the other arts, particularly painting, poetry, photography and music. Topics covered include Dada and the early avant-garde; surrealism and psychodramas; Brakhage and abstract expressionism; feminist arts and film since the 1980s; the idea of the sublime in painting, music, and film; landscape in painting, photography, and film; post-modernism and the cinema; queer theory, gender/identity politics, and aesthetics of recent films; and specific multiple disciplinary artists such as Andy Warhol, Michael Snow,Helen Levitt, and Gunvor Nelson. Same as ARTF 5453. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of FILM 1502 (minimum grade D-).