Cinema In The 1920's

In the nineteen twenties to the nineteen forties, these were the golden years for what came to be known today as experimental and avant garde film cinema. Over the decades, there have been several film makers and artists which have become iconic in the experimental film world such as Andy Warhol and Stan Brakhage. With a history lasting just as long as narrative cinema, experimental film has a time line of events just as exciting. Over the years, it has been given many different names; avant garde in the twenties, experimental in the forties, underground cinema in the fifties or independent cinema in the sixties, which is what avant garde is referred to as today. In the twenties, people were aware of what film was and its capabilities, which

His work contained material which drew attention to modern day culture and the obsession people develop with certain things, such as brand names and pornography. He was an influence in the world of Pop Art purely by using his acquired high art status. Coming into circulation in the nineteen fifties, Pop Art was an artistic approach which uses objects and elements of mass culture such as advertising, taking objects or slogans and emphasising how they could be used and valued as works of art, using Andy Warhols' Campbell's soup images as an

Now years after his passing, Warhol remains an iconic figure, with his prints and face on all kinds of merchandise. If anything, it is apparent he gains even more popularity as time goes on, even if people do not really know what he did, he still manages to be a household name. In comparison, Stan Brakhage comes from a similar family background of poverty and difficulty. The difference is, Brakhage had no interest in becoming rich due to his work, he just wanted his audience to understand whichever message he tried to convey at the time. Originally, he wanted to be a poet, but in later life decided to switch speciality to film. Born as Robert Sanders on January the 14th, nineteen thirty three, he was adopted and renamed Stanley at three weeks old, and is now known as one of the most influential members of experimental film today. With a film career lasting fifty years, Brakhage created some three hundred and fifty films, most of which were all free hand and absent of