"It is unimaginable, at present, for a young person who wants to make a short film to go to a producer and say: 'alright sir, I don't know what to make, I don't know what cinema is but I want to make a film.' Any responsible filmmaker must say that, it is the truth. "
-- Pedro Costa
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-home movie, corner of Franklin Avenue and Garfield Place, Hollywood, California, 2006.
-MOMA On Wheels (Ernie Gehr, 2002)
-The Unchanging Sea (Griffith, 1910)
-Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication (Godard/Miéville, 1976)
-Dragnet Girl (Ozu, 1933)
-Toni (Renoir, 1935)
-The Apple (Makhmalbaf, 1997)
-Journal d'un curé de campagne (Bresson, 1951)
-Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, 1955)
-Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1950)
-White Dog (Sam Fuller, 1982)
-still of Boris Kaufman, cameraman, working for Dziga Vertov.
-still of Francois Musy's sound set up (possibly in the woods of -Notre musique, Godard, 2004)
-still of Roberto Rossellini in India for -India Matri Bhumi, 1958 - filming Raimu the monkey for the sequence "Dulip the monkey".
"Home movie": isn't that the answer (part of it?)? Home movies against the machine.
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