charlotte a2 media: Directors and theorists within my chosen genre

Listverse.com has created a list of the top ten avant-garde filmmakers and directors (http://listverse.com/2011/08/11/top-10-avant-garde-filmmakers/). My personal 3 favourites within these are:

-MICHAEL SNOW

Michael Snow is a Canadian artist. He is considered to be one of the most influential filmmakers of all time, and his numerous films have been shown at film festivals all around the world. He specialises in the genre of avant-garde, his most famous project being "Wavelength". He has also created many short films.

-JONAS MEKAS

Jonas Mekas is a Lithuanian-American filmmaker and artist. His work is so influential that he has been nicknamed "The Godfather of Avent-garde cinema" after his work on films such as "Symphony of Joy", "Empire", and "365 Day Project". Like Snow, his works have been shown at worldwide film festivals and cinemas.

-MAN RAY

Man Ray was an American-French visual artist who frequently collaborated with Salvador Dali. He created many short films in the 1920s and did a lot of photography and editing work on avant-garde short films.

Additionally, my all-time favourite director is Jean-Pierre Jeunet. He directed my favourite film, Amelie, which is avant-garde and has many creative qualities.

"Amélie" is a fanciful comedy about a young woman who discretely orchestrates the lives of the people around her, creating a world exclusively of her own making. Shot in over 80 Parisian locations, acclaimed director Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("Delicatessen"; "The City of Lost Children") invokes his incomparable visionary style to capture the exquisite charm and mystery of modern-day Paris through the eyes of a beautiful ingenue."

PETER BURGER - THEORIST

Peter Burger is a theorist who wrote a book titled THE THEORY OF AVANT-GARDE. He decided that in order for avant-garde to be truly valuable, it has to 'break the system' of a conventionally typical art. He also said that for the avant-garde, process and outcome are more important than the content. He describes avant-garde to be an art, and so has a main function of not following the typicalities of what one would expect from the genre.

"The author argues that it is the social status of art, its function and prestige in society, that provides the connection between the individual art work and history. Bürger’s concept of the institution of art establishes a framework within which a work of art is both produced and received." -Minnesota Review

A still of young Amelie eating raspberries off her fingers- a sweet but natural scene, one that inspires me to follow with in my film as I want to show the sweet moments of every day life.