Notes

- pioneers in the field of moving pictures - Georges Melies, D.W. Griffith, and Sergej Eisenstein
- More recently - LVT and "Dogma 95"
- 1960s = cinema was expanded and there were many inter-media excursions - many artists "deconstructed formal and compositional elements of cinematographic code"
- EX. performances, multimedia actions, multiple projections, and the dissection of all cinema's realities -> in order to reflect upon the structure of film
- 1990s = use of cinematic history (intertextuality?), debated cinematographic parameters, produced classics as remakes
- video has stood in relation to other artistic languages and media such as television, performance, sculpture and film
- collective cultural memory was a common theme - films in the 90s were often shown in darkened theaters on a large screen
- "art breaks with the conventional perspective of film in many ways"
     - use of multiple projections, split screens, or screens placed away from walls to allow them to be             viewed from front to back and simultaneously
- many artists combine the world of theatre with the electronic possibilities of video
- documentary format is based on experimental form - ex. Chris Marker, Chantal Ackerman, and Jean Rouch