How To Enjoy Experimental Film, Or, Why It's Okay To Be Pretentious
Channel: swrang varma
Date: 2021-11-23

DISCLAIMER: Few audio issues in the first minute, it's much better after that!

This is not an authoritative guide on experimental film. These are just my thoughts on why I think film is such a powerful medium, and how one can possibly start getting into a headspace that allows one to enjoy cinema that is different from what one usually finds on streaming platforms. Like all different experiences, we might not find ourselves naturally predisposed to it, and so it requires a slow training of the mind and body to be able to accept such film, to appreciate the different things experimental film is doing to us as opposed to fussing over how one "should" enjoy such works. By doing this, one is hopefully trying to access new parts of ourselves and the world, new ways of experiencing the world. The only way to do that is to first work on our mental processes that are so attuned to our current way of life, one of hyper-accelerated rhythms, increasingly fragmented time, and an overload of information, and so naturally, the media and pop culture reflects that pace of life, progressively breaking down our ability to receive information at any other speed. The removal of the choice to independently assimilate and put together meaning is posited as true freedom of choice of a panoply of content, where each is just as much of a didactic recital of events as the last. 

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