Pure cinema

Pure Cinema is the film theory and practice whereby movie makers create a more emotionally intense experience using autonomous film techniques, as opposed to using stories, characters, or actors.

Unlike nearly all other fare offered via celluloid, pure cinema rejects the link and the character traits of artistic predecessors such as literature or theatre. It declares cinema to be its own independent art form that should not borrow from any other. As such, "pure cinema" is made up of nonstory, noncharacter films that convey abstract emotional experiences through unique cinematic devices such as montage (the Kuleshov Effect), camera movement and camera angles, sound-visual relationships, super-impositions and other optical effects, and visual composition.

For the French avant-garde film movement of the 1920s and 30s, see Cinema pur.

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Modern Pure Cinema Filmmakers and Writings

In 2010, the American abstract 16mm filmmaker Douglas Graves unveiled his website http://www.purecinema-celluloid.webs.com/ which contains his Pure Cinema lecture and other film writings, along with articles on abstract and cinematic filmmakers such as Slavko Vorkapich, Dziga Vertov, Maya Deren, Ron Fricke, Arthur Lipsett, Leni Riefenstahl, Jordan Belson, George Lucas, Stan Brakhage, Geoffrey Jones, Bruce Conner, and movie title designers Saul Bass and Kyle Cooper.

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