Sometimes when you don’t have a budget, all you have to do is look closer. Resonant, personal stories surround us.
This post was written by Shanhuan Manton.
Confluence was a documentary short reverse-engineered based on the resources we had available and the limiting circumstances we faced. With no money, and stealing time between projects, we worked with our constraints to inspire creativity.
What we had was our minimal camera package and access to events, so we synthesized a creative approach to documentary filmmaking distinct to us. Partly inspired by our admiration for Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakuhl and their permission to viewers that “you can even sleep if you want,” as well as our interest in slow cinema, we employed a meditative gaze to documentary filmmaking in our film, Confluence.
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This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
