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[masturmind]

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[direk]

WHAT IS UP WITH THE SARONG TEAM BEING AFFECTED BY THIS? I thought the article was tongue in cheek.

nakakagulat ang comment haha

[masturmind]

ay hindi ko alam. kasali ata ako sa sarong team pero di naman ako apektado haha. sinu-sino ba tinutukoy mo? :)

[hastyteenflick]

hehehe, i started out reading his piece na nakataas kilay ko - parang shucks german ka what would you know about pinoy cinema etc etc; kaso he does make a good argument. he's not really saying digital is bad for phil cinema, per se, it's more of a cautionary piece on the use and abuse of the medium. i agree with the economic aspects of going digital vs film, as well as its more groundbreaking applications when it comes to using the medium to tell stories studios will not touch; but then, his observations about studios taking advantage of the digital medium make sense. i think eventually, (and i think it's starting to happen now) as digital gains more mainstream acceptance, studios will use digital films as another means to exploit filmmakers and films by co-opting the entire medium. what i mean by this is that studios will create a "digital" arm that will release digital films. cinema one originals and cinemalaya are examples of these - in which first time filmmakers or filmmakers who would normally be snubbed by bigger studios will

[direk]

Precisely why Cinemalaya isn't independent. Major Hollywood studios have their own independent wings. So that mode of production wouldn't be the only basis for naming independent cinema. Was it in the 60s? 70s? when there was a proliferation of fly by night producers, they were indies but they were making the same stuff as LVN etc, the established studios. I'd bring up Deocampo's suggestion of using the word 'alternative' rather than 'independent', but this is escaping the reality of Cinemalaya etc.

[hastyteenflick]

true - i was thinking of those hollywood studios with "independent" wings when i was making my point. co-opting of digital films in the US is big already, and so far it's give and take in terms of the output. when you put it onto the philippine setting, i'm not sure how the ratio of give and take will be. it's a bit more precarious for us here because it's still in its experimental stages. i heard a rumor about viva putting up its own digital arm ages ago. i don't know if it ever worked out?

[intrigero]

actually most of the negatives he said were good. yes, we should promote an art film culture here. yes, it's good that people volunteer or forget about money for their passion. yes, it's good that people are adapting their style to this cheaper medium, and actually, i think digital depicts this country (well, manila) better than film does.

malapit na movie mo masturmind a. excited? ;)

[masturmind]

scared. haha.

[wring]

the words form, content, medium versus message, all come to mind but i cant for anything coherent right now so there.

[wring]

*form anything coherent.

anubah.

[blurred_clarity]

Thanks for sharing this. I can only imagine how the movie Ang Pagdadalaga..., Masahista and all those other digital flicks would look like if they had been produced with enough budget and shot in 35mm. Im getting tired of watching pinoy talents put to waste just because of certain restraints and compromises.