After reading Bordwell and Thompson’s chapter on experimental film form and watching the screenings, I realised that the avant-garde form is actually quite present in a lot of mainstream cinema today, just diluted. Imagery is the main means of conveying meaning within a film, if it wasn’t we might as well read a book or listen to the radio. The beauty of watching a movie is being able to understand concepts and narrative through pictures and repetitive symbols as well as the use of dialogue and words. However, where mainstream film often has an obvious storyline with relatable characters and a steady plot-line, experimental film is an intensely concentrated avenue of symbolism and ideas where one has to really search for links and patterns in order to make sense of what they are watching. Bordwell and Thompson mentioned that Michel Gondry and Chris Cunningham had developed aspects of the avant-garde technique into music videos. Reading this made me think of a modern music video, “Bugatti” by Tiga that I had watched recently and really enjoyed. The video clip showcased a series of different repetitive images that alter in time to the beat and seemingly have no connection to one another, also reminiscent of Ballet Mecanique. After a while I began to detect a representation of the sixties era and upperclass status from the objects within the video clip. Similarly, once studying Ballet Mecanique more thoroughly, it becomes obvious that the film takes the idea of ‘ballet’ and applies it to mundane objects and movements.