<p>Avant-Garde just is hardly taught anymore. Doing stage craft would make him closer to a artisan level Renaissance man which is more related to the modern or postmodern Avant-Garde movement then Experimental Animation which is certainly not Avant-Garde these days. This person stated he wanted to do art, painting, exhibition design, photography plus film/tv production, sound, and lighting which is a different degree than Production, Studies, Media, Screenwriting, or Animation.</p>