Camper Response

The difficulties of putting a label or name to Avant-Garde film is looked at in Fred Camper's article, "Naming, and Defining, Avant-Garde or Experimental Film". Camper described "six tests" to define whether a film can be defined as Avant-Garde, or experimental. While I agreed with most of the "tests," I think that Avant-Garde cinema is something that has to go on, in part, undefined. It is always changing and is something that is not mainstream and (usually) does not follow any rules. I do think that for the most part, the definitions were correct, but I don't believe that every film must follow the rules.