Instead of relying on the assumption that successful pieces of work have to come from big budgeted studios, and from the re-enactment of the stories based off literary pieces, these new auteurs rebelliously proved that quality filmmaking could be done with their own visions and grounded stories that touch on important subject matters, like pains of the past (trauma), sexual experiences, time and repressed memories that were extremely taboo at the time to expose on the big screen.
According to one critic Roger Ebert: “With the unconventional use of editing, using hard jump cuts and disrupting the expected smoothness, Resnais aimed to break the dreamlike-movie-watching state of the audience; making them conscious of the fact that they are watching a movie about real life.”
One other rebellion against the film industry, and to everything that was taboo at the time, was the short “Un Chien d’Andolou” which would later become the manifestation of the surrealist movement in cinema.
It’s was a film born of the visualization of the literal dreams of Louis Bunuel and Salvador Dali which for the first time brought forward the dream logic, the subconscious and the hidden layers of life out in the open for everyone to face… And it was outrageous.
"For the first time in the history of the cinema, a director tries not to please but rather to alienate, offend nearly all potential spectators and wake them up. It’s disturbing, frustrating, maddening” wrote the critic Ado Kyrou.
Also a breakthrough in trauma documentaries “The Child of Rage”, the actual therapy footage of a 7-year-old Beth Thomas, a girl severely abused by her parents for years admitting her murderous thoughts against her little brother on camera; and “Century of the Self” a one of a kind documentary about the rise of psychoanalysis as a powerful means of persuasion for both governments and corporations using commercials and films.
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