{"id":522,"date":"2012-04-14T12:31:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T19:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=522"},"modified":"2012-04-14T12:31:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T19:31:04","slug":"me-on-battleship-pretension-a-three-hour-course-on-the-nineties-indiewood-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"Me on Battleship Pretension: a three-hour course on the nineties’ “Indiewood” movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The latest episode<\/a> of the film podcast Battleship Pretension<\/a> <\/em>[RSS<\/a>, iTunes<\/a>] features yours truly on the third mic, discussing the history of the “Indiewood” movement in the United States. If you’ve personally experienced any important chapter in the history of American independent film, you’ve experienced this one: it saw the combined forces of the Sundance Film Festival, Miramax Films, and an energetic pack of young (or young-ish) Gen-X (or Gen-X-ish) filmmakers release a storm of creativity into the mainstream U.S. zeitgeist, the likes of which it hadn’t seen since the “New Hollywood” of the seventies. Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez, Steven Soderbergh, Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson \u2014 like these guys’ work or not, you can’t help but get drawn in by how they made it, how it pulled them into the public consciousness, and how they rode the wave even as it broke.<\/p>\n

And if you happened to come of age as a filmmaker or cinephile in the nineties, you couldn’t help but draw inspiration from all these Indiewood directors’ nearly budgetless but always exhilarating first features. After a bit of discussion about, of course, travel in New Zealand, Tyler, David, and I work our way through a history of Indiewood through a selection of these debut films:<\/p>\n