Films made outside the established studio system with affordable equipment (toy cameras, CCTV video, iPhone's) proves anyone with an inclination to make a movie can now do so, but when you mix that with a powerful dose of adrenaline and confidence, then that my friend creates cinema heat.
This pro-active independent filmmaking community is part of the Misrule Movement. A boom of arthouse films originally came out of the UK under this banner and then spread across the world, pushing the boundaries of cinema and its power to enchant and transfix viewers. This enlivened film-making as an art form and a new wave was born. YouTube directors obsessed with European cinema and countercultural attitudes set the world alight with their micro budget masterpieces. Philosophical, commercial and occult styles blended with experimental elliptical Pick-A-Mix editing techniques. Add a dose of sex, violence and psychedelics and you have a Molotov cocktail approach to filmmaking.
Taboo topics such as social problems, poverty, abortion, drug addiction and prostitution are also tackled giving it a human connection as well as an esoteric champagne pop-culture aura. Both zippy, suggestive and also deliriously good fun.
Internationally recognized as an agent provocateur, controversial British filmmaker Fabrizio Federico led the charge with his provocative movies and the Straight-Jacked Film Festival, bringing together an army of new filmmakers who's movies run the gauntlet of outrageous themes such as espionage, marriage, mind control and radiation challenge the viewers conceptions. These auteurs explore timeless subjects with a new richer and unhinged eye. The language of cinema who's tools of sound, moving images and music was revolutionized when these filmmakers bestowed their individual vision, style & themes onto the international stage.
