Dada Film

1. Disrupt the viewers' expectations of a conventional narrative and their belief

in film as presenting reality and their desire to identify with characters in a
film.

2. Dada films are radically non-narrative and non-psychological.

3. They are self-referential, pointing to the film apparatus (camera) as an

illusion producing machine.

4. Through cinematic defamiliarization of social reality (creation of chaos) they

undermine the norms and coces of social conventions and therefore, conventional
film-making.

5. The viewer never enters a filmic real world. A distance is given such that a
Dada film doesn't shock or disturb the viewer.

Surrealist Film

1. Rely on characters, on narratives and optically realistic effects and

cinematography to draw the viewer into the world portrayed in the film.

2. Through this identification with a familiar world, the films subsequent

disruption of that symbolic order can jar open suppressed unconscious drives and
obsessions.

3. Surrealist films do not use formal abstract imagery and for the most part, avoid
slow motion and attributes of the camera.

4. Rather than distort images to disorient, the surrealists use shocking images and
juxtapositions.