Episode 2 The Hollywood dream

  • Abel Gance according to Cousins was the leading exponent in French Impressionist Cinema.
  • Abel Gance directed Napaleon in 1927 and is seen as one of the most innovative films of the silent era.
  •  Gance was worried the film’s final part  would not have the proper impact by being confined to a small screen. Gance thought of expanding the frame by using three cameras next to each other. This is considered to be the most well-known of the film’s several innovative techniques.
  • A modernist approach what originates from 1920s Paris. The movement used shocking, irrational, or absurd imagery to challenge traditional function art to represent reality.
  • Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali were the leading directors in the surrealist silent era cinema.
  •  Luis Bunuel directed Un Chien Andalou(1929)considered the best short film of all time.
  •  Marcel Duchamp’s directed Anemic Cinema (1926)

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