This
paper presents results of an in-depth research and comparative
analysis of female experimental filmmakers and their work. As an
aspiring female filmmaker, it is important to know what exactly are
those changes, that were made possible through experimental film
making, and how these women shaped a new visual language .This
research leans heavily on Laura Mulvey' s essay 'Visual pleasure and
narrative cinema', in order to determine just what it is that was so
strictly shaped in conventional narrative cinema, and how
experimental film making allowed women to explore and break the
conventions of a coded visual language and narration which were
rooted within the viewer. Analysis of films and theories of Maya
Deren will serve as a milestone which started an entire wave of
women using the medium of experimental film to explore many issues,
but in this regard, we will focus on women's cinema , gender issues
and the visual language. The paper further explores women filmmakers
such as Vera Chytilova, Shirley Clarke , Chantal Akerman , and how
the roots in experimental filmmaking led to the creation of the
counter cinema.
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