Indie Game: The Movie [2012]
Dir. James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot
Originally published in Take One Magazine, 7th December 2012
In the 1960s, the invention of the home movie camera revolutionised the world of film. The affluent history of cinema is hugely indebted to the camera as a consumer product. The camcorder’s independence from studio control and totalitarian marketing statistics turned their consumers into producers, and gave birth to new strains of cinema that went some way towards defining film as the art form of the 20th century.
the Jonathan Toomey 