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==Some Famous Examples of Experimental Films==

==Some Famous Examples of Experimental Films==

''[[Un chien andalou]]'' (1929) - The most (in)famous experimental film.  It is a plotless film, which consists of several random images.  Some of these images include a close-up of a woman's eye being slashed open with a razor; a man dragging a piano, two bishops, and a pair of rotting donkeys across a room; ants swarming around a hole in a man's palm; and sundry severed limbs and gratuitous slayings.  The "eyeball" scene is one of the most famous (and notorious) scenes in the history of cinema.  It still has the power to shock and provoke.  This film is not recommended for children.

''[[Un chien andalou]]'' (1929) - One of the most famous, and earliest examples of surrealism in film.  It is a plotless film, which consists of several seemingly random images.  Some of these images include a close-up of a woman's eye being slashed open with a razor; a man dragging a piano, two bishops, and a pair of rotting donkeys across a room; ants swarming around a hole in a man's palm; and sundry severed limbs and gratuitous slayings.  The "eyeball" scene is one of the most famous (and notorious) scenes in the history of cinema.  It still has the power to shock and provoke.  This film is not recommended for children.

''[[Meshes of the Afternoon]]'' (1943) - A very famous film, which resembles a dream.  Most often described as a "trance film" or a "dream film," ''Meshes'' derives its power from increasingly charged imagery that turns ordinary household props into signs of sexual desire and self-annihilation, while discordant editing and double exposures literally fracture Deren into several selves.  The film is poetic, rather than narrative.  The film's narrative is circular, and repeats a number of psychologically symbolic images, including a flower on a long driveway, a key falling, a door unlocked, a knife in a loaf of bread, a mysterious Grim Reaper-like cloaked figure with a mirror for a face, a phone off the hook, and an ocean.  This film is okay for older children.

''[[Meshes of the Afternoon]]'' (1943) - A very famous film, which resembles a dream.  Most often described as a "trance film" or a "dream film," ''Meshes'' derives its power from increasingly charged imagery that turns ordinary household props into signs of sexual desire and self-annihilation, while discordant editing and double exposures literally fracture Deren into several selves.  The film is poetic, rather than narrative.  The film's narrative is circular, and repeats a number of psychologically symbolic images, including a flower on a long driveway, a key falling, a door unlocked, a knife in a loaf of bread, a mysterious Grim Reaper-like cloaked figure with a mirror for a face, a phone off the hook, and an ocean.  This film is okay for older children.