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These changes in terminology and focus indicate a long and constant anxiety of filmmakers working in the avant-garde film mode to define their own identity, to understand where their art belongs within the art of cinema. It has been a slow movement away from the status of outcasts to the status of filmmakers whose work is far from marginal—perhaps, just the opposite. To paraphrase Peter Kubelka: It’s the commercial film that is on the margin of the art of cinema and that needs a proper and clear term to Independence for independents 31 describe it; avant-garde filmmakers do not need any terms to describe their work—their work is, simply, Cinema.
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