The Emergence of Cinema Minima (Small is Beautiful)
Trendwatch: new ways to distribute movies. What is Cinema Minima?
It is — as Jarrod Whaley has remarked — independent film [which] is actually independent. For there was nothing independent about the so-called Independent Film movement which flourished briefly in the waning days of the twentieth century. It was independent only inasmuch as its financing did not come entirely from studios. In every other respect — technique, dramatic conventions, distribution, and above all, aspirations — the Indie movement was indistinguishable from its better-financed cousins in Hollywood.
Now, however, the radically new tools for making movies — low-cost, light-weight digital video cameras, and inexpensive editing tools on personal computers — encourage a casual and fault-tolerant approach to moviemaking.
But even as the moment-to-moment, nuts-and-bolts of moviemaking have become easier, entirely new challenges have presented themselves to movie makers: new ways to show and to distribute their movies. Ways to identify new audiences, too.
The salient issue facing movie makers is distribution
2004 is turning out to be a pivotal year for new ways to distribute movies.
The self-distributed DVD is one way.
Recently, bold experiments have been made to discover new, feasible, ways to distribute movies over the internet, using combinations of distributed file-sharing (BitTorrent) and syndicated feeds (RSS).
Cinema Minima will be following these developments. [Cinema Minima]
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