discuss some of the ways in which the film or vid work you have studied for this topic requires a different kind of spectatorship from that with spectators bring to their mainstream film going.

mainstream cinema is made to gratify a much wider demographic than experimental film. it does this by having archetypal narratives which allow for a passive audience. experimental films challenge mainstream conventions by turning them on their head or completely rejecting them. Un Chein Andalou, directed by Luis Brunel, was made on the basis that they would take inspiration from their dreams and reject anything that had any meaning. watching this film requires an active spectatorship as the film can seen as being avante garde. in the sequence where we see the man falling off his bike, there is a high angle shot of him from a balcony. we assume he is dead by the reaction of the woman in the next shot. the film then cuts to him lying in the bedroom and is alive; he sits up and we get a mid shot of him looking in horror. these jumps in time are not explained and appear to have no structure or narrative. in the mainstream film 'Wild at heart' by David Lynch, has a jump in time that is captioned "18 months later". this tells the audience where in time they are now being show, and keeps its non linear structure. experimental films like un chein were the first  to include non linear structures but over time it has become popular and used in mainstream cinema but done in a very different way. from theses examples we see that the spectatorship in experimental film is more high brow and challenging than that in mainstream, mainly because experimental films are not made to make loads of money from, but made to challenge the spectators perception of the film and its meaning.