This may be a tangent, but I've been thinking a lot lately that film is fundamentally more conservative than music or literature because it costs so much to make. Films that matter as art are increasingly marginal, but a low budget by the film world's standards could allow someone to spend several months in a recording studio and pay for session musicians and professional mixers. (Even the $15,000 budget for SKINAMARINK is more than most people have to throw around on a project that will probably lose money.) A few years ago, Kent Jones wrote that film was becoming a niche akin to poetry or ballet, but poets can work by just sitting down with a pen and notebook.
This may be a tangent, but I've been thinking a lot lately that film is fundamentally more conservative than music or literature because it costs so much to make. Films that matter as art are increasingly marginal, but a low budget by the film world's standards could allow someone to spend several months in a recording studio and pay for session musicians and professional mixers. (Even the $15,000 budget for SKINAMARINK is more than most people have to throw around on a project that will probably lose money.) A few years ago, Kent Jones wrote that film was becoming a niche akin to poetry or ballet, but poets can work by just sitting down with a pen and notebook.