• Such Expressionist techniques aim to
• Abstract from realistic details and contingencies
• Bring out the essence of an object, situation, or state of being
Express a subjective viewpoint
• Evoke mystery, alienation, disharmony, hallucination, dreams, extreme emotional states, destabilization
• Expressionist film in the 1920s is based on the premise that film becomes art only to the extent that the film image differs from empirical reality: “The world is there: Why repeat it?” The formative power of film was seen in its ability to
• Resignify and rework reality (not merely record it)
Construct a self-contained aesthetic and symbolic world of the imagination radically detached from the everyday
• Abstract from realistic details and contingencies
• Bring out the essence of an object, situation, or state of being
Express a subjective viewpoint
• Evoke mystery, alienation, disharmony, hallucination, dreams, extreme emotional states, destabilization
• Expressionist film in the 1920s is based on the premise that film becomes art only to the extent that the film image differs from empirical reality: “The world is there: Why repeat it?” The formative power of film was seen in its ability to
• Resignify and rework reality (not merely record it)
Construct a self-contained aesthetic and symbolic world of the imagination radically detached from the everyday