The following is a quote from the latest Filmmaker Magazine from its Editor. Whither Filmmaker in an age without film? Im not talking about the magazine here, but rather the meanings its name has accrued. Were not oblivious to the fact that the films we write about are, for the most part, no longer rolled stacks of celluloid but zeros and ones stored on servers and hard drives and streamed to laptops or set-top boxes or even movie screens. This is not a new thing, of course, and not too long ago we wondered if we should change our name, if film was meaning less and less. But then I had a meeting with someone over at YouTube, and she told me that so many of the so-called YouTube stars looked up to the Coen Bros., or Quentin Tarantino or Spike Lee that, for them, these people were filmmakers, and that they wanted to be filmmakers too. It didnt matter what they were shooting on, they simply wanted to part of a tradition that started with Méliès and Lumière whose contrasting work still seems to signify the twin poles of not just Hollywood cinema but everything you find on the internet. This pretty much sums up why I will always use the terms film, to film or filmed whenever Im talking about my work whether its on TV, the internet or a movie screen. Its all the same now regardless of the origin of the word. The word has taken on new meaning and will continue to do so.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 01:13:24 +0000
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