Avant-Garde

Avant-Garde is experimental art-house cinema that utilizes short film as a media with which they can be experimental and push the boundaries of normal film.

The first real Avant-Garde experimental film movement occurred in the 1920's in Europe as film and cinema was becoming established and becoming available to a wider audience, rather than just the upper-class. The movement was mainly initialised by surrealists such as Salvador Dali, who looked to film as the perfect medium to experiment with their art.

Salvador Dali's and Luis Bunuel's avant-garde film 'Un Chien Andalou' was one of the first ever avant-garde films, released in 1929. Due to the films experimental nature, it shows how Avant-Garde films can and have pushed the boundaries of normal film.

Avant-Garde is produced by artists and is often exhibited in art gallery's as a piece of art. Many art galleries now have cinema type rooms which literally play Avant-Garde work on loop for audiences to come and view as any other kind of work. The art can then be distributed with modern medias such as DVD and on the internet as a download.