Lindsay Lohan in the chic short film, First Point (2012)
In an interview, French director François Truffaut explained his vision for the future of cinema by saying “the future film will be personal, with the director filming daily fragments of his or her life. The number of audience members will be in proportion to the people the director knows”. It is apparent in this quote that Truffaut somehow had a vision of YouTube decades before it was realized.
It has been more than ten years since making original(?) shorts and “sharing” them with friends took it’s place in the world wide web’s consciousness. But I’m more interested in the format than the social media outlet itself. Over the past few years, from musicians to successful fashion designers, a lot of creative people have been making personal films of their own in the short format (take a look at Karl Lagerfeld’s…
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