A group portrait of filmmakers attend the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring Matthew Harrison, Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Todd Haynes, Greg Araki, Abel Ferrara, Atom Egoyan, James Gray, Robert Redford, Haskell Wexler, among many others. Co-directed by Amy Hobby. [Filmed in Pixelvision and blown-up to evocatively grainy 16mm.]
Direction
Almereyda's Pixelvision gimmick actually elevates the material.
Production
Toy camera footage blown to grainy 16mm = accidental aesthetic genius.
Editing
Chaos curated into something almost coherent.
Director
Michael Almereyda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Pixelvision camera was a 1987 Fisher-Price PXL-2000, originally marketed for children and discontinued within a year.
This captures the exact moment before Miramax dominance fully commodified 'independent' cinema—the anxiety about selling out is almost quaint now.
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