[The Minimalist's Era] A Study on the Short Film IV

  Even the most inexperienced of filmmakers know that capital must be raised to fund the short and feature film. Location permits, actors, cast and crew, special effects, film editors and the likes must be given the due of their services and profession. That very cost of film was the very reason why only those connected to capital were able to dominated and isolate the film industry.

  Today, in the age of digital availability, the filmmaker has been given the option of minimalism, art at the barest and lowest cost. A digital HD camera, a novice actor looking to get their first professional credits, a film editor (which can be doubled by the filmmaker himself with the right background) and little else beside a scene that requires no permit. Medium as Youtube allows the upload and endless audience filtered from social media sites as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest. In this, the social media filmmaker is born and with crowdfunding and crowd sourcing sites as Kickstater and Gofundme, only talent stands in the way and that the access to seasoned screenwriters & well-known actors. If the screenplay is one based on true events, a tale needing to be told to exposed to society the ills as to put them to rights, then the actor (and even the crew) may take the gig for the lowest. Example. Hilary Swank was paid $65.00 a day for her role as Tina Brandon in the 1999 film "Boys Don't Cry." Moved  by the story and the tragedy of the real Tina Brandon, a pre-op transsexual who fell in love with a woman in a small town in Nebraska, was discovered by a insular bigoted population and killed.

 Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal (Dark Knight, An American Crime) sister of Jake Gyllenhaal, wife of Peter Sarsgaard, remarked during her 2014 Golden Globe win for "The Honourable Woman" that independent film is the way to go. Independent film offers an artist to create their art without a company executive shapeshifting the very perspective, the very message and vision for profit. The greater a studio become, the more it becomes in danger of becoming a corporation, a board of artless, visionless, suits who'll cater to a society that is in dire need of a vision.

 The goal of the filmmaker has not changed since its beginning; to bring the world into frame and to bend its expansiveness to myopic significance, for the viewer to believe that everything is accessible, that nothing of life is minuscule and that even nothingness can be a subject of something. But today, the filmmaker has the ability to make film at the lowest possible means, debunking the major studios monopoly and insistent intent to give to the box office the same film with different titles.