In my last post on this topic, I argued that cinema can be redefined as “the cinematic arts,” which would…
How Many Cinemas Are There?
[Update 30 Jan 11: I’ve since written a follow-up to this post: “Why Do You Need So Many Cinemas?”] “The…
What Is Experimental Art?
One typically hears unusual art called three different things, often interchangeably: Innovative Avant-Garde Experimental But what do these three words…
Innovation in Art
What is innovation in art? This is something I’ve circled in my other posts, for example: “Notes on Twee, part…
Notes on Twee, part 2: The Crash Test Dummies (Those Avant-Garde Harbingers of Mainstream Superheroes, School Plays, and the Willful Embrace of Nostalgia)
In my last post in this series, I embedded and linked to every single music video I know that uses…
Experimental Fiction as Genre and as Principle
Christopher Higgs at HTMLGIANT recently posted this question: “If you were teaching a class on American experimental fiction, what texts…
Brevity, Part 6: Roundhay Garden Scene, ctd.(well, it’s short)
Roundhay Garden Scene is hardly the only short film that transcends its brief running time. Here are seven other shorts…