Last week i went to movie screening of "Hola Venkat". A low budget Indian-in-America movie. I enjoyed it, because its dark comedy and its free.
I was leaving right after the movie but my friend bid me to sit there and listen to the producer-cum-director speech. Its a low budget movie where Travelling charges eaten up a lion share of budget. A whole bunch of actors are friends of the director and apparently they didn't pay a penny for locations and cars used in the movie.
After he explained his troubles in making the movie, the director asked us to donate any amount of money to support his work. With that, i was impressed with the concept of movie making and distribution more than movie.
As a guy who gets bored too soon, i was already bored with mainstream cinema. Low budget movies, plays and short films become my resort for recreation as they are willing try new themes. Especially short movies and plays.
While coming home, i tried to link the art with the technology. Before technological evolution, the artist have to have money or blessings of a rich fellow to make his art known. Imagine number of movie ideas which might be great but got rejected by the producers before YouTube. We never know how many articles, short stories , poetry and novels before blogosphere started got rejected by publishers.
One hobby which got boost from technology is photography and painting. Digital art is one way of expressing self , however most of the digital art is produced by an armature in Photoshop who think creating weirdness is modern art. The cheap cameras gave birth to good photographers, but they are hard to find. Most of the hobby photographers are just idiots with SLR cameras just zooming and shooting shit thinking its art.
Anyway, what technology did to art is , it saved creativity from the clutches of production and publishing houses. The same goes to educational system too. Without internet how i am supposed to know the contemporary thinkers and professors of west or east.
I was leaving right after the movie but my friend bid me to sit there and listen to the producer-cum-director speech. Its a low budget movie where Travelling charges eaten up a lion share of budget. A whole bunch of actors are friends of the director and apparently they didn't pay a penny for locations and cars used in the movie.
After he explained his troubles in making the movie, the director asked us to donate any amount of money to support his work. With that, i was impressed with the concept of movie making and distribution more than movie.
As a guy who gets bored too soon, i was already bored with mainstream cinema. Low budget movies, plays and short films become my resort for recreation as they are willing try new themes. Especially short movies and plays.
While coming home, i tried to link the art with the technology. Before technological evolution, the artist have to have money or blessings of a rich fellow to make his art known. Imagine number of movie ideas which might be great but got rejected by the producers before YouTube. We never know how many articles, short stories , poetry and novels before blogosphere started got rejected by publishers.
One hobby which got boost from technology is photography and painting. Digital art is one way of expressing self , however most of the digital art is produced by an armature in Photoshop who think creating weirdness is modern art. The cheap cameras gave birth to good photographers, but they are hard to find. Most of the hobby photographers are just idiots with SLR cameras just zooming and shooting shit thinking its art.
Anyway, what technology did to art is , it saved creativity from the clutches of production and publishing houses. The same goes to educational system too. Without internet how i am supposed to know the contemporary thinkers and professors of west or east.
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