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Since they are aimed at small, niche-market audiences, art films rarely acquire the financial backing that would permit large production budgets associated with widely released blockbuster films. German national cinema) are used instead. The term art film is much more widely used in North America, the United Kingdom, and Australia, compared to mainland Europe, where the terms auteur films and national cinema (e.g. Īrt film producers usually present their films at special theaters ( repertory cinemas or, in the U.S., art-house cinemas) and at film festivals. Film scholar David Bordwell describes art cinema as 'a film genre, with its own distinct conventions'. These qualities can include (among other elements): a sense of social realism an emphasis on the authorial expressiveness of the director and a focus on the thoughts, dreams, or motivations of characters, as opposed to the unfolding of a clear, goal-driven story.

įilm critics and film studies scholars typically define an art film as possessing 'formal qualities that mark them as different from mainstream Hollywood films'.

It is 'intended to be a serious, artistic work, often experimental and not designed for mass appeal', 'made primarily for aesthetic reasons rather than commercial profit', containing 'unconventional or highly symbolic content'.

Carl Theodor Dreyer, pictured here in 1965, directed the 1928 film The Passion of Joan of Arc.Īn art film (or arthouse film) is typically an independent film, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience.

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