Modernism and Film

Examples of Modernism as Film:

• "The Fountainhead" - Ayn Rand
• "Things to come" - H.G Wells Alexander Korda
• "The Day The Earth Stood Still" - Robert Wise
• "Metropolis" - Fritz Lang
• "Spellbound" - Alfred Hitchcock
• "Un Chien Andalou" - Luis Brunuel, Salvador Dali

Examples of Modernism as Abstraction:

• "Colour Box" - Len Lye
• "Colour Rhapsodie" - Mary Ellen Brute
• "Disney's Fantasia Design" - Oskar Fischinger

Oskar Fischinger:

(mentioned above) devoted himself primarily to abstract animation. He synchronized his abstract films to phonograph records and live musical accompaniments. He did this because he believed that it helped audiences to grasp and accept the nature and meaning of his "universal" imagery. 

Modernism and the myth of the Artist:

Films about artists more often than not portray them as outsider characters or tortured geniuses.
Examples:

• The Horses Mouth.
• The Rebel.
• In the Realms of the Unreal about Henry Darger.
• Matthew Barney: No Restraint.
• Basquiat.
• In a Dream - Zagar.
• Frida.
• In the Bedroom.
• Almost Famous.
• Adaptation. 
• I'm not There. 
• Factory Girl.
• Immortal Beloved.
• Mr.Holland's Opus.
• Bleu

What I learned from this lecture is that Modernism can be conveyed through a number of different ways EG: engineering, film, art.