Cinema

 Counter-cinema/oppositional cinema (See also deconstruction, movement film concept, and naturalizing.) This form of film can be seen in a variety of genres: research, avant-garde, and art theater. In its simplest form, it is the film that, through its own cinematic exercises and inquiries, subverts existing cinematic codes and rules. It is the film that will be rather formalist and materialist in its aesthetic and much political concerns with the how and why of film-making, and thus really discontinuous in its look. That is, the structure and quality of a movie can be obvious on screen. For instance, spatial and temporal continuity can be deconstructed, the security of the environment provided by the rational mise-en-scène can be decomposed, and all the different components of seamlessness and compositional continuity will be exposed. This is how the movies work.