Historical Avant-Garde: Dadaism, Surrealism, and Pure Cinema

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Examine how 1920s European avant-garde movements dismantled conventional bourgeois narrative syntax using dream logic, shock, and visual rhythm.

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Experimental, Avant-Garde, and Non-Narrative Film Forms

11th Grade · Arts · UK A-Level

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Deconstruct structuralist, surrealist, lyrical, and materialist film practices that challenge mainstream narrative continuity and representational orthodoxy.

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FILM-1.11General Certificate of Education Advanced Level (UK A-Level) · Film-studies · 11th Grade

either one feature-length experimental film or a compilation of experimental films with a total duration of 80 minutes (equivalent in time to a feature-length film)