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Realism and Expressionism
January 2001

Realism and Expressionism (sometimes called Formalism) are terms used to describe two stylistic tendencies in film. In the abstract, they can be considered polar extremes, but to do so clouds the nature of each style. In fact, they are not mutually exclusive; they can and almost always do appear in the same film, often in the same sequences and same shots. In practice, the terms do not exist at the polar extremities. The thing to remember is that they are stylistic tendencies. Probably no film ever made was done completely in one style or the other. The aim of users of both styles is to make reality visible.

Realism is a cinematic style that tends to find reality through observation of the actual, physical world. Manipulation by the filmmaker is kept to a minimum. The realist tries, as far as possible, to preserve our natural sense of time and space. Realism is essentially an Aristotelian concept: we know the world through close......

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