Camper: Avant-Garde and Experimental

I like Camper's approach to characterize these films instead of giving them a hard and fast name. What it's called ultimately doesn't matter. It's those qualities that separate them from the mainstream, that make them subversive and deviant. Of the qualities mentioned, drawing attention to the medium is the one that most interests me. Hollywood editing's goal is be invisible. It's goal is continuity and to not disrupt the audience's immersion into the film. Tossing those rules aside and making bizarre edits across shots that lack continuity completely separates that work from the mainstream. Using actually celluloid film itself would seem to make it easier to call attention to the medium. You can do so many things to a piece of film that have nothing to do with exposing it to light to create an image. You can paint on it, cut it, tape stuff to it like Stan Brakhage's Mothlight. There's no narrative. Just a creator testing the limits of the medium. This is something I'm personally looking forward to exploring. Just raining down on a piece of celluloid and see what happens. I can't wait to see what happens when I break the rules.