Monthly Archives: January 2009

Filmmaking Career Path

By Mitch | Published: 2009/01/30
I am reading Mike Curtis at HD for Indies flipping out (via Kent Nichols) right now. It is long, and, well, ranty. But his ‘anecdote’ regarding career development piqued my interest: “Anecdote – it used to be that the hot new movie directing talent came up through commercials and music videos – think David Fincher. McG [...]
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Horror As a Model for Indie Film

By Mitch | Published: 2009/01/29
Some people theorize (citation needed…) that the horror genre gives us an embodiment and outlet for our amorphous and repressed fears. There are corollaries about the rise of horror revenues during times of socioeconomic tumult and war. Horror, the theories go, allows us to release these emotions vicariously, in small doses, and within the safe [...]
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Polymathism and Indie Film

By Mitch | Published: 2009/01/27
On one hand, some of the most important intellectual work of our civilization was done by great, creative thinkers not bound to one area of specialization. Da Vinci was “a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer”; Newton a “physicist, mathematician, astronomer, theologian, natural philosopher”. Modern society is built upon [...]
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