Experimental filmmakers are mostly self-oriented, like the genre in itself.
Stan Vanderbeek has some works with political content. Especially his anti-war film "Breathdeath", which he dedicated to Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton can match your topic. You can buy Stan Vanderbeek's "Visibles" (contains Breathdeath) at http://www.re-voir.com.
If you count German Caligarist films as experimental (as I did), most of post-war (and also pre-war) German films are about post(pre)-war anxiety. Especially try to watch:
"Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari"
"Golem"
"Berlin-Symphonie of a Great City" (pre-war Berlin's documentary)
if we name experimental films as avant-gardist approaches, Rosselini's "Rome Open City" can also be count as an experimental film because of its camera usage.
Ali Vatansever
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--- Matthew Hodgins <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>atomic bomb, apocalyptic visions, post-war anxiety, the end of History,
>experimental film
>
>these expressions circumscribe the topos of a paper that i'm trying to write
>for a course in experimental film. this project has been sitting on the
>corner of my desk for several months and it's high time to get working on
>it, but i'd like to save myself the trouble of renting stacks of tapes in
>search of mushroom clouds. can anyone name some experimental films that
>might be interesting within the above-mentioned context? recommended
>readings would also be appreciated. ultimately, it would be nice to develop
>a thesis linking essential aspects of the genre itself to the same
>widespread social anxieties. i mean, is it just me? does not the image of
>the mushroom cloud seem particularly well-suited to the experimental genre?
>why is this?
>
>thanks in advance,
>
>matthew hodgins
>montréal, québec
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