Definitions

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  • adjective Opposing films (audiovisual productions).
  • noun A film that deliberately avoids or subverts the usual characteristics of films.

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ film

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Examples

  • Also in 24fps, editor Gabe Klinger has translated a piece by The Sign of Chaos, "[a] n antifilm, but most of all a terrorist film: it throws on the screen dramaturgically, with clinical cruelty and frenetic fervor, the apathetic climate that conditions the relationship between Art and the State in Brazil."

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • Also in 24fps, editor Gabe Klinger has translated a piece by The Sign of Chaos, "[a] n antifilm, but most of all a terrorist film: it throws on the screen dramaturgically, with clinical cruelty and frenetic fervor, the apathetic climate that conditions the relationship between Art and the State in Brazil."

    GreenCine Daily 2009

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