Modernism in films is very hard to define.
The camera angle and the other space that is outside of the plot nd narrative becomes of more importance as the film maker tries to alter our experience of the film.
Or rather the film becomes about your experience of it.
Though this type of fim making generally fell out of favour with the onset of WW2, i do find it interesting, and wonder if the surreal approches would be good to use in an animation that i do.
I think that the altered state they represent could be relevant to youth culture today, especially the kind of highs people get linked the type of music in some club scenes.
Un chien Andalou (1928)
This film is really interesting, ther eare bizarre scenes, designed by the famous surreal artist salvador dali, and the narrative gets interposed with close up gruesome shots of an eye being sliced and a cloud floating past the moon the two images being similar in thie movement. it is so hard to get your head around, but i think it is a great example of the genre of film broadly called modernist. it is crazy to think how this must have been seen in the time it was made, when the world was so different and the development of special effects with no CG for example.
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