film makers

avant garde

Andy Warhol (pg 84 - shortcuts) : static frame/textual beauty/interesting people in roles. Eschewed narrative and formal complexity in his early (monochrome) films. Led others to question its status as art because film had been traditionally understood through those devices. Was influenced by the beats ( link to "the beat [in] film" ) and gay culture

Harry Smith : animator (early abstractions - in uni library)

hollywood avant-garde?: david lynch, David Fincher? (Fight Club)