Art films step away from the normal convention of mainstream film making. These films are more suited for niche markets of audience rather than a mass audience of people. These films are shown at specialty theatres and festivals rather than mainstream cinemas. These films follow the directors creative vision rather than a team of people who pull their ideas together in the visual creation of the film, meaning art films give you an insight into the mind of the director/writer making each one very unique and personal.
New French Extremism
A new type of film that has been used at the turn on the 21st Century by French directors. These films all follow a horror genre but make use of transgressive art in them. Transgressive art is a type of film with an aim that is designed to shock and outrage people watching it. The film generally contains very gory and sickening scenes that are aimed at violating morals.
Dark Fantasy
Charles L Grant defined Dark Fantasy as "a type of horror story in which humanity is threatened by forces beyond human understanding." (The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders, Volume 1,edited by Gary Westfahl, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005.) Dark Fantasy is very close to the horror genre again instead focusing on the supernatural as the evil forces at work instead of a serial killer which would fall under the horror genre more. Dark Fantasy can also be used to describe a film that follows a very gothic feel such as using Vampires or Werewolves in a very horrifying way rather than a more action way as in the film Underworld.
Film Noir
Film Noir is normally associated with American crime dramas, usually these types of films are black and white with very dark settings such as nightime or gloomy weather. Blade Runner is classed by a lot of people as a modern take on the Film Noir genre, whilst not being black and white, the settings are gloomy and dark and have a very saddening feel to the whole movie. Film Noir is generally seen as a very niche film type that is not suited to the mass market.
Animation
The animation genre is incredibly diverse as it is only limited by the imagination of the creators making it. It could be used for children's animation such as the example shown above or even more dark animation as well. There are also different types of animation such as Computer Generated 3D animation, claymation or cell animation making this genre very diverse.
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