D'oh - sorry, I misread, thinking they were claiming it was the FIRST feature shot with camcorders. But shooting a film with consumer camcorders these days is not that big a deal.
On 7/11/07, Brook Hinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you sure they don't mean cel phone camera or something? That wouldn't > be true either - there's already been at least one feature length cel > phone-shot documentary. Features have been shot on video for decades, and > since Festen (the first Dogme95 film, a superb narrative feature shot with a > horrible-quality Sony pocketcam in available light - but it is visually > STUNNING), which was shot ten years ago, there have been hundreds if not > thousands of narrative features shot on consumer-grade DV (not even HDV) > camcorders. This includes not just first timers but directors like Hal > Hartley, Spike Lee, Lars Von Trier, Rebecca Mailer, Jean-Luc Godard, Marc > Forster... the list goes on and on. There are film studies classes that > focus specifically on these (I've taught some of them myself). > > Brook > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
