Music doesn't need lyrics to be great, there are countless instrumental masterpieces out there, the music itself moves you and can paint images in your head.
But filmmaking is completely subordinated to storytelling, you always hear directors being obsessed about "telling stories" not about experimenting and exploring the potential of the visual medium. Movies should be freed from the shackles of storytelling, there are books for that, movies should be a feast for the eyes first and foremost just like music is a feast for the ears. As it stands now it's a subordinated cucked artform constrained into "genres" endlessly recycling the same tired plots and tropes.
>movies should be
Gay way to think
>As it stands now it's a subordinated cucked artform constrained into "genres" endlessly recycling the same tired plots and tropes.
Great observation. Try to be less abject in your criticism in the future if you want to be taken seriously.
Anyway, I agree with you more or less OP. I wish there were more movies like Koyaanisqatsi, but I also think its worth pointing out that Koyaanisqatsi reaches heights that its sequels/knockoffs didn't even approach. So it must be easier said than done to produce films like that.
Watch some Malick. In fact, go watch Knight of Cups.
Watch more movies. Spend less time vomiting every brainless thought onto the internet.
This or any other Ron Fricke movie
Dah!
>baraka
DOo'D'LOO
frickin love this movie
You are correct and I completely agree with you.
Based, I love Samsara. I also love Koyaanisqatsi and Baraka.
True. Ron Fricke is based.
The movies you see in the theater are basically just large scale financial investments and probably some glowBlack person globohomosexual propaganda sprinkled in. Nobody cares about making a visual masterpiece anymore than McDonald’s cares about improving the quality of their food. If you want to see art go to a modern art museum or something.
>experimental non-narrative filmmaking exists
You’re a fricking moron
turn off the sound, b***hlips
Watch Refn's latest TV shows
Go visit an art gallery you pseud.
it barely exists because its been tried and no one liked it
Mad god
What about Tron: Legacy?
also a good answer.
You might like this then
Beyond the Black Rainbow
Supremely based, I fricking love Beyond The Mind's Eye. Pure 90s CGI kino.
Look up experimental cinema, french impressionism and russian montage.
Lux Aeterna
Enter the Void
Mandy
Koyaanisqatsi
Powaqqatsi
Naqoyqatsi
>Enter the Void
Is this any good?
It is and it's techincally dazzling
>Lux Aeterna
What about this? It looks shit.
It's more experimental: a movie within a movie (backstage) and it gets totally sensorial while they're filming a scene
I liked it
TY
If it doesn't have a plot or beginning and end, it doesn't matter when you come and go, so those types of films generally get put in art museums as visual art instead of put in theaters as movies.
This is true, but I wish more experimental films would hit the theaters.
>There are almost no movies that are just visual experiences
>Andy Warhol
>Jonas Mekas
>Fernand Léger
>Patrick Bokanowski
>Bill Morrison
>Piotr Kamler
>Willard Maas
>Harry Everett Smith
>Hollis Frampton
>James Broughton
>Joris Ivens
>Michael Snow
>Maya Deren
>Norman McLaren
>Paul Sharits
>Ron Fricke
>Stan Brakhage
>Ishu Patel
>Len Lye
>Ben Rivers
>Tony Conrad
>Hans Richter
>Toshio Matsumoto
Just to mention some that i have saved on my computer, i don't know why i do this because you're obviously a lazy moron who's incapable of doing a research, maybe i just want to turn you away from the dark path
Based Anon
OP, check out the magazine “Cinema Scope” for current offerings and discussion of experimental cinema.
I really don't think you can have imagery that is as purely enjoyable like music is purely enjoyable. Music just tickles this specific part of the brain in a way images can't as easily.
I also don't think you can ever escape telling a story via film, even the experimental ones. We always read a story into images, especially sequential images, even if there isn't one intentionally.
A lot of films itt that have been mentioned imo tell stories, even if it's just a series of images with music. I guess if we want to enjoy a movie with zero story, we'd have to consciously force ourselves not to read a story into the sequence of images.
There are plenty of silent films too, i don't know what you are complaining about. The naked island (1960s) is especially nice as it explores tragedy without using any human voices. Plus the silent films of the early 1900s.
Film is not the visual equivalent of music, art(painting) is
Music is sound art, Painting is visual art, Literature is story
Films are at the intersection of all 3
You can compose a good song by yourself in your living room. A movie is a massive endeavor requiring hundreds of people and millions of dollars so there's much less room to be experimental
Nah, you literally just need a clear bowl, a bunch of different oils, different colored dyes, and a projector.
why dont you do it then?
I have we did that all the time at house parties, with the right dyes, you can even make tie dye shirts to commemorate the experience when you are bored with the projecting.
>The Cell
Tarsem Singh's stuff is quite visually impressive.
>Valhalla Rising
Not a big Refn fan in general but this movie is gorgeous.
>Stalker
Say what you will about the plot, but another beautiful film.
>Ran
A color film by Kurasawa. 'nuff said.
All films by definition are visual experiences, but your choice of words is odd. Perhaps you meant 1.5hr music videos? Perhaps you meant something from the silent film era?