what do they think of the indie film aesthetic?
It’s weird because, I think, of all the arts–at the high school level–film is the most mainstream art form out there. Students really just know what’s playing out at the malls; they really don’t know anything about independent or experimental or documentary. A lot of them come in wanting to be the next Spielberg, and then we’re showing them our stuff, or the Kuchar brothers, or really weird stuff, and some of them do not like it at all–at first. But then they really get into it. It opens up their minds and what they think about film, so they definitely become the cult-of-film posse at the end of the summer. How do you think that using Super 8 helps them jump that gap from the mainstream to a more independent mentality? Where it affects them is that they’re finally shooting film instead of video, and it looks appreciably different. They’re always blown away when they get the film back. I think that actually shooting film and having to edit film really changes their appreciation of ho
