Many popular films of our time, especially the comic book adaptations like The Avengers, curate a cinematic experience for us that is largely dependent on the spectacle of cinema. Through hyperreal visuals and sensory overloads, they translate their artistic visions to the cinematic medium.
On the other end of the spectrum, there exist minimalist films which turn away from the norms of the cinematic spectacle and focus more on what is essential. A fundamental sense of alienation and existential despair underline their cinematic investigations, choosing to capture glimpses of reality instead of selling the illusion of a distorted hyperreality that is more readily consumable.
Taken from a Far Out magazine article
