Non-Cinema

<i>Non-Cinema: Global Digital Film-making and the Multitude</i>provides an original film-philosophy through which to understand low budget digital filmmaking from around the globe. It draws upon a wide range of western and non-western philosophers physicists theorists of 'Third Cinema ' and contemporary film theorists and film-philosophers in order to argue that the future of cinema lies at the margins in the extreme the overlooked and the under-funded - the sort that distributors exhibitors and audiences would not consider to be cinema at all hence non-cinema. <br/><br/>Analysing numerous films William Brown argues that contemporary low-budget digital cinema is also through its digital form a political cinema that suggests that we are not detached observers of the world but entangled participants therewith. <i>Non-Cinema</i> constructs this argument by looking at work by established filmmakers like Jean-Luc Godard Abbas Kiarostami Jafar Panahi and Michael Winterbottom as well as lesser known work from places as diverse as Asia the Middle East Europe the Americas and Africa.