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Film, TV and Animation: Online Resources - Experimental Filmmaking

Online resources for experimental filmmaking

Experimental Filmmaking and the Motion Picture Camera:An Introductory Guide for Artists and Filmmakers is an excellent introductory guide to the basics of experimental filmmaking, surveying the practical methods of experimental film production as well as the history, theory, and aesthetics of experimental approaches, while emphasis on film rather than digital, and the use of a simple camera, a Bolex.

Experimental Film Club is a forum for diverse artistic and experimental film works.

Clare Langan is an Irish experimental filmmaker who studied fine art at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. She received a Fullbright Scholarship to New York University in 1992. Langan evokes feelings of nostalgia, loss, and isolation in her atmospheric films.

The Icelandic band Sigur Rós have given a dozen film makers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever comes into their head when they listen to songs from the band's new album, Valtari, allowing for creative freedom in the filmmaking process.

The Venice Biennale refers to an arts organization based in Venice and the name of the original and principal biennial exhibition the organzation presents. 

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