answer one of the three questions below in a 500 word or less critical reflection following guidelines on previous ppt
1) Select one of these 3 films covered in PPT 4.1: Dulac’s Seashell and the Clergyman; Duchamp’s Anemic Cinema, or Léger and Murphy’s Le Ballet Mécanique. Describe how the film engages in one or more of these styles or movements: Pure Cinema, Dada, Surrealism. Describe and analyze how the form of the film conveys the philosophy of the style or movement. What was the film promoting? What was it reacting against?
2) Metropolis is a dystopian science fiction film of the Weimar period in Germany. Explains how it engages, in form and content, in many of the approaches of German Expressionism to reflect and engage in the politics and culture of Germany during the late 1920s.
3) Vertov’s Man With a Movie Camera engages in “constructivist” form, following the principles of “dialectical materialism.” Choose a sequence from the film and explain how it engages in constructivism and follows or models the principles of dialectical materialism in support of the newly modernizing Soviet socialist state.