Archive for the ‘Low/No Budget’ Category

Ashley Meeder, USA, 2009

A solo for a woman in a darkened bedroom, with the striped shadows of venetian blinds for company. Filmed, directed, choreographed and edited by Meeder. Presumably, someone else played the Bach cello suite!

Jill Sigman, USA, 2009

A figure encased in plastic rolls in a landscape of wax objects, on a floor covered with plastic. Performance art and installation meet the camera, to music entitled “War is good for Business” by Cristian Amigo.

Adam McKinney, South Africa, 2008

With a multi-age cast of differing abilities, these folks make a community high atop a ruined building, in an empty studio, for an audience and for each other. As a genre it falls somewhere between documentary and manifesto, utopia and exposé.

Marisa C. Hayes, France/USA, 2009

Inspired by NASA’s “gaffe” in erasing historic footage of the first moonwalk, this short was created for Dance Films Association’s “What Moves You” 48-Hour Challenge. Truly low-budget, it was shot and edited in 10 hours. Price tag: 20 euros.

Lee Atwell, USA, 2009

This Butoh-inspired video journal won the Summer/Winter category in one of Move the Frame’s weekly contests. You can almost smell the pine trees in the distance, as camera and solo dancer move on their meditative journey.