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1 .I'm not sure if this is the right film but I think it was the one wear all of the men were very flamboyant. I really liked the way the made the film. It was not only innovative but funny too. I think that they took what they knew about Warhol and just picked up a camera and went with it. I also think that their wasn't really a script which is also Warhol's style. I just thought it was great and their wasn't but a tiny narrative thread to it but I really enjoyed having it in the film so I could follow and enjoy the madness of the film.

2. I don't know if this is right but here we go. In the article it mentions performance art being presented in museums. it says "performance art has developed out of and in relation to sculptural practices, principally minimalism, leading to the destabilization of sculpture as an object" So I think that its like film and other things like music and even video games. People get bored with one thing and some says hey why not try this. So I think that is what happened. I think Barner is allowed to say his films are sculptures because each piece is like a moving sculpture. Cresmaster, which ever one we watched, has a sculpture feel to it. At the beginning each of the people he has to get passed are presented as "sculptures" and he has to figure out how to defeat or find the piece he needs in order to beat this game. That might be totally wrong. It might even be okay to say that some of the objects or people used in the film can be shown in museums as sculptures with the film playing somewhere in the museum.

3. It first talks about minimalist sculptures that weren't enough for the artist like Burden who made a series of sculptures which were not enough for him, I think. He then went on to "shoot" were he is shot in the arm. So the littlest things make the biggest impact. His films are not minimalist like Warhol's early films or Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai de Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (which I love), but his films are like these except that are usually physically grueling. So I guess the answer would be that minimalist is post modern because artist take the basic idea to extremes like having an audience member put needles into your arm or standing on a ladder with water lit with electricity. I makes minimalism for people who don't care for it more interesting as "sculpture art".

4. Burden's effect on the art world was showing it as it was happening. His art from the films he makes are in galleries but most of the art he created was seen or is capable of being seen. Like the Cresmaster series. It is filmed so the audience knows it happened but some of the pieces from the film are in galleries. I think that Vito is the same way. They take photos of them doing the sculptures and try to do all they can to make sure that people know they were doing this art and that it didn't just appear.

5. They are saying that Burdents work has that of a cinematic feel to it and that Burdens characters are the superstars of the films like Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson. Burdens films do not leave the protagonist untouched, they go through difficult task get hurt in the process but always end up triumphant much like the blockbuster Willis and Gibson were in.

6. It refers to a cluster of historic institutions and concepts that form a context within which cinematic media is used. I think it means the way films are put together in all sorts of manners. So two different types of films would be experimental and Hollywood films. One is low budget usually without a story thread and the other has big names, big budgets and a narrative story which usually ends happily if it is American made. So thats what I think it means. I think Walley believes that all aspects of making a film are put into this new type of sculpture/performance art. It shows the actual art taking place and allows the person to see actual objects from the work. Thats probably all wrong.

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The production in the Avant Garde is controlled, developed, and modeled all by the director of the piece.If I were to make a piece than all aspects of the film would come to me first and I would make all the choices no matter what. It is my film and no one will change that. THe gallery world happens to be different. The art is a working progress between the curator and the artist. It should also be noted that experimental filmmakers usually have no money to work with. Usually they use all the money that can as well as their friends money and hope that it does well to get the money back. While others don't really care about the money as long as it is seen by others. But if an artist were to work in a gallery they would be able to use all of the resources of the gallery and perhaps make a better project and get their art seen by more people.