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Okay, but our views on what constitutes art are very different.

I think of film as an art form built on story. You obviously don't draw the same distinctions between cinematic art and other forms of art such as painting, sculpture, etc. As a person steeped in the arts myself (i.e., both literally and figuratively), I might be prone to agree with you on some philosophical level that anything defined as "art" may be worthy of appreciation, but the placement of value is highly subjective as you are well aware (see link).

Just like "a picture may be worth a thousand words" to the art patron who manages to penetrate the artist's vision, a reel of "pictures" or celluloid images may be worthless to the film enthusiast who can't penetrate the director's vision. This may, in fact, be the gravest weakness of the auteur theory in perceiving the director as sole creator of the final vision. The fact is, celluloid art is a different animal than painting, sculpture and even performance art because it depends upon capturing images of a moment which are entirely at the mercy of outside influences. In other words, like it or not, the director of cinema always works in a co-operative medium rather than one which he single handedly manipulates.

Those avante garde directors who choose to manipulate the medium in a pretensious fashion are often met by an unsympathetic public or accusations of perpetrating a fraud upon the public. The question then becomes is the public the final arbitor of what is or is not art? The answer depends on who you ask.

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