Dear Felicity, dear Geoff,
thank you very much for your suggestions!
Happiness, Gummo and the films of the L.A. School are surely the kind of
'indies', which are worth having a look at, when searching politically
alternative indies. I agree that Happiness certainly neither is in any
explicit nor even significant way challenging the status-quo.
I'm very much looking forward to any further suggestions (except for
documentaries and 'non-narrative' avant-garde films).
Another point I'm not sure about, and which I think literature about
Independent-Film hasn't answered sufficiently yet, is which, from a broad
historical point of view, is the traditionally dominant characteristic of an
Independent-production? Is it only the independent financing/ production of
a film or those two characteristics plus distribution?
My next question would be if, historically, industrial criteria really were
the dominant criteria that defined whether a film was called independent or
not. And, a very last question, when did the discussion about what is
independent about Independent-films first appear?
Thank you so much...
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