What are some similarities and differences between the American avant-garde of the early 1970s and the Punk or No Wave film making in the late 1970s? Address the following areas:
Aesthetic similarities and differences (which filmmakers do the cite as influences, which filmmakers do they reject?)
The member's of the No Wave part of cinema found inspiration from the likes of French directors like Goddard, Truffaut and Rohmer. This artists, instead of rejecting of traditional Hollywood narrative, took them and altered them to meet their own unique auteur principle. Early 1970's is different as it is a rejection of all things Hollywood and the brain child of the art world and the academy.
The member's of the No Wave part of cinema found inspiration from the likes of French directors like Goddard, Truffaut and Rohmer. This artists, instead of rejecting of traditional Hollywood narrative, took them and altered them to meet their own unique auteur principle. Early 1970's is different as it is a rejection of all things Hollywood and the brain child of the art world and the academy.
Technological similarities and differences
Both styles of cinema depended on cheapness, which I will mention later. However what makes them so different is the advent and use of a new camera, the Super 8. The Super 8 shots on near the same quality as the average home video and is just as easy to operate. Early 70's avant-garde has become more, shall we say "fancy," where as the the new technology allowed for the very Fluxus type idea that anyone could make film.
Both styles of cinema depended on cheapness, which I will mention later. However what makes them so different is the advent and use of a new camera, the Super 8. The Super 8 shots on near the same quality as the average home video and is just as easy to operate. Early 70's avant-garde has become more, shall we say "fancy," where as the the new technology allowed for the very Fluxus type idea that anyone could make film.
Economic similarities and differences
As I said earlier both depended somewhat on cheap means of creation. However, punk creation was even cheaper. The super 8 made is possible for almost anyone to create works of punk art. Of course as we have learned "art" is to many folks, a relative term.
As I said earlier both depended somewhat on cheap means of creation. However, punk creation was even cheaper. The super 8 made is possible for almost anyone to create works of punk art. Of course as we have learned "art" is to many folks, a relative term.
Social similarities and differences
The art of early 70's avant-garde was considered by many to extremely formalized. Punks, as they so often do, chose to reject this. No Wave cinema is often more angry. Its anger is directed at society in general but more accurately at the art world which pins art into black boxes and demands that it follows its rule. However like early 70's avant garde some punks were in fact considered with the production and style of their films. To put it in another way, while punks may have tried harder to make political and social statements, it would be over stepping to say the early 70's avant-garde film makers were not doing the same thing in their own unique ways.
The art of early 70's avant-garde was considered by many to extremely formalized. Punks, as they so often do, chose to reject this. No Wave cinema is often more angry. Its anger is directed at society in general but more accurately at the art world which pins art into black boxes and demands that it follows its rule. However like early 70's avant garde some punks were in fact considered with the production and style of their films. To put it in another way, while punks may have tried harder to make political and social statements, it would be over stepping to say the early 70's avant-garde film makers were not doing the same thing in their own unique ways.
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