'Experimental Film requires a different kind of spectatorship.' Has this been your experience?

'Experimental Film requires a different kind of spectatorship.' Has this been your experience? [35]

Experimental films are full of strange mixtures of images, situations, words and expressions that may not tell a cohesive story but, in the end, don't have to in order to achieve an emotional goal. This type of film therefore requires the spectator to shift their conventional cinematic expectations to accommodate more radical narrative techniques, themes and meaning construction. 

Un Chien Andalou, the infamous 1929 surrealist short film from Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali, attests to this. I found this film quite hard to follow seeing as it was random and nothing in the film really added up. This is how I knew that it would have some kind of surrealism in it. This theory was then confirmed by a scene very close to the introduction, where there is a shot of Luis Brunel looking up at the moon as a cloud was coming towards it, the moon was a full moon so was circular like an eyeball. There was then an extreme close up of a womans face, and he has a sharp knife in his hand. He holds it next to her eye and then the moon shot it shown again, with the cloud going over the moon. This was symbolic as it implied what was going to happen next, the cloud represented the knife and the moon represented the eyeball as in the next shot Luis was shown cutting the womans eye. As I don't really enjoy abstract film too much because I find it hard to make sense of them, scenes where there is symbolism helps me understand the film more so I enjoyed this aspect. 
A scene like this where it showed something that had a shock factor was uncommon for this time, which for me implied that the whole film was trying to go against any mainstream ideas of film. 

Chris Marker became known internationally for the short film La Jetée (1962). It tells of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel by using a series of filmed photographs developed as a photomontage of varying pace, with limited narration and sound effects. Now add your personal response and discussion of spectatorship issues

Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) is a work that maintains all of the mystery, tranquility, unpredictability, and personal attachment that is ever present within the world of dreams. Now add your personal response and discussion of spectatorship issues