What is Experimental Cinema?

Most people have preconceived ideas about what experimental cinema is. That avant-garde films are unwatchable, self-indulgent, incomprehensible, a waste of time. Culture editor Beau Beakhouse and Film & TV editor Sadia Pineda Hameed ask what, at its basic level, an experimental film is. It might be argued that conventional narrative cinema, the popular cinema of any particular time, is at one end of a scale. … Continue reading What is Experimental Cinema?