More films like this? Where directors limit them selves to older technology, I'm interested in this...
Space is Big, let's dump our crap there!
Haine, La (1995) was filmed in black and white due to budget concerns.
Russkiy kovcheg (2002) was filmed in a single shot usign high tech digital cameras. Constraint-styled filming. I don't think this is a great film, just interesting.
Elias Merhige has been working in this vein-- check out his film "Begotten", and some of the shots in his film "Shadow of the Vampire" (the sound in some of the scenes was recorded on wax cylinders). Bill Morrison's film "Decasia" uses silent footage, but it's found material and he didn't shoot it himself. Guy Madden's films are consciously modeled after silent and early sound films (with hum and crackle added to the soundtrack to mimic the old audio systems of the early 1930s). Anyway, I think it would be great if more directors used old technology when making their films-- some stories would be shown to their best advantage that way. I wonder what Stanley Kubrick could have done with an old Edison or Lumiere camera?
shareHe would have done 54 takes of the same scene using 77,760 inches of film and still not be entirely satisfied.
"It's just television, get over it!" - David Letterman
Guy Maddin is a director who always uses only extremely outdated equipment. His movies look like they were made in the 1920's but they're actually from the 2000's.
I'd recommend you check out "The Saddest Music in the World."
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Jack White killed a man with his bare hands.... While singing and playing guitar.
Also check out Guy Maddin's "Brand Upon the Brain!".
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