Notes after Long Silence - On Austrian and American Structural Film at Millennium Film Workshop
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In the early 1960s, a number of filmmakers emerged in the United States and Europe to produce remarkable films that challenged any previous formal tendency in avant-garde filmmaking. The Structuralist filmmakers—including Peter Kubelka, Tony Conrad, Paul Sharits, and Kurt Kren––arranged their shots according to mathematical principles, attempting to produce non-narrative and non-illusionist films to oppose the cinematic apparatus. Similar to the advent of Minimalism in painting and sculpture, structural films insisted on shape, and their content was minimal and subsidiary to the outline. The Structural Film movement and its aesthetic principles—including serial cuts, static frames, and flicker effects—influenced several filmmakers of the next generation such as Leslie Thornton, Virgil Widrich, Philipp Fleischmann, Saul Levine, Eve Heller, Jodie Mack, Mónica Sávirón, Mike Piso, Douglas Urbank, Björn Kämmerer, and Dietmar Offenhuber.
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