No budget film

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A no-budget film [ noʊˌbʌdʒɪtfɪlm ] (English: film without budget ) describes a full-length feature film or a short film that was made with the lowest possible budget . The filmmakers mostly work as a writer-director, producer and unit manager in personal union and largely without a film crew . In contrast to low-budget films, no-budget production is usually not based on any intention to make a profit.

Films and Development

The individual parts of the Apu trilogy (1955–1959) by Satyajit Ray were among the first no-budget films to receive attention from film critics . The first part of Apu's Path to Life: On the Street (Pather Panchali, 1955) cost only Rs 150,000  (about $ 3,000), largely because the film crew was made up of amateurs. The three films are now counted among the best films in film history . In 1960 Ron Rice released the black and white film The Flower Thief with Taylor Mead in the lead role. Production costs were less than $ 1,000; 16 mm aerial reconnaissance cassettes from World War II were used as film material . In the early 1960s, filmmaker Jack Smith used discarded slide films to shoot his no-budget classic Flaming Creatures (1963). John Waters ' Hag in a Black Leather Jacket (1964) is rumored to have cost only 30 US dollars, while Flick Skin by Craig Baldwin was also turned fully with used footage. The no-wave cinema movement in the late 1970s, represented by filmmakers like Vivienne Dick , spawned some notable no-budget films in Super 8 such as Beauty Becomes The Beast (1979).

publication

No-budget films are shown primarily at film festivals such as the Flicker Film Festival in Los Angeles , The 8 Fest in Toronto and the traveling festival Trasharama A-Go-Go in Australia , as well as being distributed on the Internet via streaming platforms. In Germany, no-budget films are shown at the Hamburg International Short Film Festival or at the Independent Days in Karlsruhe. Many directors also present their films in bars and clubs or take part in so-called do-it-yourself screenings.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Robinson, A (2003), Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker , IB Tauris, p. 77, ISBN 1-86064-965-3
  2. ↑ Tom Ang: Digital Video. Equipment, techniques, projects, post-processing . Dorling Kindersley, 2005, ISBN 3-8310-0765-9 .
  3. ^ Pradip Biswas: 50 years of Pather Panchali . Screen Weekly . September 16, 2005. Archived from the original on June 2, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 23, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.screenindia.com
  4. ^ Robinson, A (2003), Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker , IB Tauris, 78-9, ISBN 1-86064-965-3
  5. ^ Take One: The First Annual Village Voice Film Critics' Poll . The Village Voice . 1999. Archived from the original on August 26, 2007. Retrieved July 27, 2006.
  6. ↑ The Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made By THE FILM CRITICS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES, New York Times , 2002.
  7. ↑ All-time 100 Movies . In: Time . Time Inc. 2005. Retrieved May 19, 2008.
  8. ^ Dixon, Wheeler Winston, “Performativity in 1960s Experimental Film,” Film Criticism Vol 23, 1998
  9. ↑ Dixon, Wheeler Winston, "The Exploding Eye" ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / eng-wdixon.unl.edu
  10. ^ "From No Wave To National Cinema", Lux