Week 1

Expanded cinema elements:

- Challenges traditional cinema's codes and conventions

- Expands creative possibilities of cinema = artistic and cultural expression

Involves:

+ Multi-screen + multi-source projection 

+ Live performance elements 

+ Multimedia and unconventional exhibition spaces 

+ Immersive, mixed-media experiences 

+ Not a single cohesive movement - a broad set of practices including 

+ Video/media installation and projection art AV performances, VJing, live visuals with music 

+ Multi-screen films and performance art 

+ Materialist, flicker, camera-less films

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- Breaks away from norms (continuity editing - seamless storytelling across time and space) 

- Originated in late 1960s and early 1970s in USA, Uk, Europe, emerging from experimental film culture and counterculture movements 

- Created as a response to the limitations of traditional cinema 

- Push to explore new artistic forms

Reflection:

This is my first time getting introduced to expanded cinema. I am very inspired by how these practices turn cinema into an immersive and experimental event, which feels more like an exhibition or museum than normal cinematic experience. I am motivated to think beyond fixed screens and linear storytelling in my own future works.