Live@Sundance '09: The Digital Divide

[SheridanODonnell]

I gotta give it to Mark Duplass here, I'm leaning towards him. And this is coming from someone who has aesthetically been privy to the film look. I don't like the hyper clarity of digital films. When Jeff says, "I would rather have the fewer number of higher quality movies." Last time I checked, shooting on film DOES NOTE guarantee that the movie will be good or remotely good. If you have the money, by all means go shoot on film, but if you don't, make them no matter what.

[ScottSchueppert]

and new ideologies, just like how the Duplass bro's did it.

[ligairi]

I would follow Mark Duplass to the end of the earth.

[BoxElderMovie]

this is really really great. they both make some pretty fantastic points.

[sean90291]

I agree--you will find better movies by giving more artists access to the process of making movies. That's what digital offers.

What I think Lipsky gets is that right now the distribution model doesn't support all these additional movies, and so many are NOT worth watching, but we're sort of forced to wade through it all to find the good stuff (cf. YouTube). We do reach a fatigue level.

[eldeeds99]

But in offering more films, you are going to get more good films. I agree with Mark that the shitty movies don't get seen.

[chokerchoker]

Great stuff from Jeff Lipsky.

He's not a Luddite or even a purist: he just seems to recognize that the digital "revolution" has not rendered better films, just MORE of them!

"You only have to make a movie for one person: yourself" he says.

At this point in the culture, that statement is almost heresy to some. But it's the truth.