An '''experimental film''' is a film that uses strange and/or [[surrealism|surreal]] imagery.
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An '''experimental film''' is a film that does not conform to traditional cinematographic and filmic conventions, and instead explores new ideas or areas.
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Some of these films are very mild, using occasional surreal imagery and/or visual metaphors.
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Some of these films are very mild, using occasional surreal imagery and/or visual metaphors. However, many of these films are intended to be shocking and horrific. If examined with a socially conservative eye, the films may seem like exploitation. This is not the intent of this author, nor of the original work, though aesthetic and social schema, which define works as pornographic and obscene have been purposefully co-opted, exploited, and subsequently rejected by these films.
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Sometimes, these films are shocking and horrific. If examined with a socially conservative eye, the films may seem like exploitation. This is not the intent of this author, nor of the original work, though aesthetic and social schema, which define works as pornographic and obscene have been purposefully co-opted, exploited, and subsequently rejected by these films.
These films are open to a multitude of interpretations.
These films are open to a multitude of interpretations.