Seminar 3: Auteurship and the Avante-Garde

Admittedly, when I had this seminar and came to then writing about it I was slightly lost, but anyway here goes. Auteurship is basically the idea that anyone who is involved in the filmmaking process is not automatically an artist. There are certain directors that are artists because f the way they meticulously orchestrate a shot and direct a film, these individuals are auteurs.

Avante-Garde sounds really complicated, to me anyway, but in actuality it's a pretty simple idea. It is basically the idea of something that is created that is new and original. So, if someone creates something that hasn't been done before, for example Richard Linklater's film Boyhood that is filmed over the period of twelve years that hasn't been done before, to that extent anyway is avante-garde. That is not to say something that is avante-garde is completely one hundred percent original, avante-garde artists do take inspiration from others to use in their own works. But this is expected as an entirely original idea with no outside inspiration is almost entirely impossible to come by.