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Experimental Movie Director

Experimental Movie Director

By: Mal Williamson PhD
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What might cinema be? Now that we have amazing digital tools and distribution a filmmaker can produce feature-length dramas akin to all the other mainstream works. For free! By yourself! Most people are using this to create genre movies - here we discuss the other options. What if you are an auteur director? Who creates unique works that aim to expand the cinematic language/s and audience/s. This podcast is for you then. And for me - because I have not been able to find what I am looking for in this. There are some excellent film podcasts and vodcasts - mainstream and independent - but I have not yet found what I hope this to be... a discussion of all the opportunities cinema offers now.

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  • Why do I look for laurels - a Core/Periphery theory of film festivals

    Why do I look for laurels - a Core/Periphery theory of film festivals
    Jan 23 2026

    Looking for laurels? It ain't your fault. The far-reaching theories about cultural producers - by Pierre Bourdieu - have been applied to Hollywood. For me this has a lot to say about the function and purpose of film festivals!

    Cattani, G., Ferriani, S. and Allison, P.D. (2014) ‘Insiders, outsiders, and the struggle for consecration in cultural fields’, American Sociological Review, 79(2), pp. 258–281. doi:10.1177/0003122414520960

    Cattani, G. and Ferriani, S. (2008) ‘A core/periphery perspective on individual creative performance: Social Networks and cinematic achievements in the Hollywood film industry’, Organization Science, 19(6), pp. 824–844. doi:10.1287/orsc.1070.0350.

    Bourdieu, P. (1993) The field of cultural production: Essays on art and literature. Cambridge: Columbia University Press.
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Dan Vendigo - new wave, old values

    Dan Vendigo - new wave, old values
    Dec 8 2025

    Today we chat with Dan Vendigo - aspiring and busy, ambitious & realistic, procrastination & innovation. An older filmmaker compares notes with the new wave. What do young filmmakers expect from their kit and their industry?
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    57 mins
  • The Casting Link

    The Casting Link
    Dec 5 2025

    A new approach to structuring cinema - throw off the shackles of literature!

    From the I Ching to AI to paleolithic cameras... a journey around the experimental approaches of an indie film director

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    Landow, G.P. (ed.) (1994) Hyper/Text/Theory. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

    Espen J. Aarseth, ‘Non-Linearity and Literary Theory’ chapter in “Hyper/Text/Theory” (1994) Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press

    Wilhelm, R., 1967. The I ching, or Book of changes. Translated by C. F. Baynes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

    Matthews, C. (2001). Celtic Wisdom Sticks: Ancient Ogam Symbols Offer Guidance for Today

    Phil Svitek (2022). The ‘But, Therefore’ Style of Writing (from the Creators of South Park). [online] YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0rFXshKLa4 [Accessed 4 Dec. 2025].

    www.youtube.com. (n.d.). Vimeo 19599227 Cent Mille Milliards de Poèmes. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NhFoSFNQMQ [Accessed 11 Mar. 2024].

    Gatton, Matt. Paleo-Camera. 2005. https://www.paleo-camera.com/

    Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1981). Metaphors we live by. University of Chicago Press.

    Email afilmbymalwilliamson@gmail.com for a PDF of the slideshow "I Ching to Sept 12th"
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    1 hr and 19 mins
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