The Cinema

From its humble beginnings, cinema has been heralded as a uniquely endowed art form providing an escapist for a socially alienated audience. From a historical point of view, cinema seems to have played the same public role in the 21st century as that of the novel in the 18th century. Filmmaker and writer William Burrough writes, "What has made money will make money." This axiom encourages studios to the tried-and-tested method rather than experiment with a new twist or a new technique.

The Cinema

The Cinema

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The Cinema

The Cinema

Screenwriter Clodualdo Del Mundo Jr., Ph.D (University of Iowa), illustrates the "Filmaking Universe" explaining the inner circle as the mainstream industry, whereas the outer circles enumerate for alternative films. "The farther the screenwriter is from the center, the more independent he or she becomes," Del Mundo says.

It is leading to know that there are dissimilar audiences. The industrial commerce already has a niche store but independent filmmakers still have to look for their own audience. Apart from being financed by independent producers and agencies, alternative films can also be sponsored by embassies and screened for festivals (i.e. Cine Europa, Spanish, and Japanese films).

"The idea is not to compete but to make films that the mainstream is not doing. It is leading to think of subjects that the commerce does not deal with, and look for new and dissimilar ways to tell stories," adds Del Mundo. Today's trend also reveals computer-generated films and characters - the Transformer, among others. "It all depends on what one is seeing for," he asserts. For the industry, a good film is the one that will make money. The ability of the film is incidental. However spirited films can also be good."

How prosperous has the underground art film been as an alternative to the industrial films? Experimental films, which presumably are not concerned with industrial viability, have an entirely dissimilar set of criteria. For example, in the industrial films of Anthony Balch, it has been said that the conscious, logical part of the mind is like the tip of the iceberg that appears above the water. What he is trying to do is to jar citizen into developing an awareness of an area under the water by precisely showing them mechanisms of perception that, of course, go on all the time.

"In writing a film, one has to be interested in the project. That is a prerequisite. In my case, I try to write the best I could. I work covering the mainstream so I do not get projects often. However, I have a regular job as professor. In that way, I can select projects I want to write. My two jobs complement each other."

Certainly, the cinema is privileged for this duplicate adventure of acknowledging and exploring the difficulty of the world. That which takes place in our dreams is infinitely more spirited (because it's richer, less prearranged, more capable of revealing our relations with reality) than the gestures and words, the thoughts and settings, that constitute the fabric of our socialized life. Cinema is an instrument for comprehension the contemporary man and shaping the man of the time to come as well.

Clodualdo Del Mundo Jr. Is a professor and a respected filmwriter.

The Cinema

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