Experimental Films

This week in my film studies class, we covered experimental film.

It was even more painful that it sounds.

We watched four experimental films, and another one in tutorial later in the week. WOW. I'm all for expressing yourself, and I even kind of enjoyed the first one (in a "I'd like this in the background at an event, but not necessarily, go out of my way to see it" kind of way) but I dunno, for some reason, these kind of films ooze such an air of pretentiousness, I have trouble taking them seriously. Anyways, that's my very very condensed opinion of them. Call me uncultured, but I'm just sayin'....
Here are the ones we watch if you're interested in checking them out:
1. Ballet Mecanique
2. Un Chien Andalou
3. Meshes of the Afternoon (this one actually really creeped me out for some reason)
4. Watching for the Queen -it was basically impossible to find even a clip of this one, but basically it's a 2 second clip of a crowd, well, watching for the queen. These two seconds are repeated and dragged out over 11 minutes. I'm sure you can pretty much imagine how exciting it was.
5. The Phonebook (Couldn't find anything for this one either. But, it was done in Vancouver and actually have narration. WOW.)


Well that was basically a waste of space. My bad.
Ambling Alp, by Yeasayer (I can't embed the video, but check it out. It's some freaky stuff)


Fin.