What Experimental Film/ Avant-Garde Film Means To Me?

Over the past few days, I have learned a tremendous amount about experimental films and what exactly they are. An experimental film is a film that is produced by one person or a small group with usually out of pocket money. The films are not produced to gain lots of popularity but as a way to truly practice your freedom of expressing something that interests you and as a way to get the message across. To me, experimental films are a unique way for you to show people something out of your point of view and as a way to spread something that you think is an issue or cool. You have unlimited freedom and there are truly no boundaries to what you can make or create. What I love most about experimental films is that whatever you create the film doesn't have to make sense to anyone but yourself therefore you can have this special connection that no one else has.  It can be something very simple and basic or something absolutely crazy and insane. The films allow the producer to get across a message in a new form in order to get more people thinking about the topic and opening their minds to new ideas.