Characteristics
- Conventional stories
- Representations of character’s memories or desires
- Emphasis on psychological motivation
Impressionism in Film
- 1919 – 1929
- First avant-garde/ narrative avant-garde
- Pictorialism
- Montage
- Diffusion
What is Impressionism?
French Impressionism
and
Surrealism
- Modernity
- Claude Monet
- “Sunrise”
What is Surrealism?
- Imagination
- Nationalism and literary realism are put aside
- Think out of box
- Founded in 1924
Characteristics
Surrealism in Film
- Juxtapositions
- Rejection of dramatic psychology
- Frequent use of shocking imagery
- 1924 – 1930
- Dadaism
- Include disturbing and sexuality
- sexuality, love, violence, religion, fantasy, terror, black humour, bourgeois institutions and values