How do avant-garde directors, the types who make the seriously obscure shit, make a living?
Talking about the likes of Courant, Brakhage, Hutton, Benning, Jarman...
bump, fags
It's called rich parents.
>>63442727
that's just Barney
a lot of these people come from humble backgrounds
They're financed by art institutions that make millions through visitors and donations.
They work at McDonald's
In europe they get film funding. Also they become professors at art and film school.
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>>63442930
intredastinghow do i into art institution funding???
>>63443763
put together a portfolio and apply for grants. even in states that dont have pretentious shit like MOMA have a section of their annual budget dedicated to the arts.
You have to be born into it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orfa_tGKgIg
>>63443867
nice
>>63443896
shid too late for that ;_;
>>63442238
Most of these avant guarde movies are ridiculously cheap
Donations and crowd funding
And rich Jew family
And using your family to make everything instead of hiring new people
That's how Jodorowsky does it
>>63444358
the question is not how do they get funding for the film, but how do they make a living off of them
>>63444394
jodorowsky isn't avant-garde, certainly not the type the OP implies
They mostly have other jobs and have their films funded by museums and film institutions.
>>63444423
They don't really. They may be given money to pay the bills in producing their next film, but it's certainly not a career like other filmmaking is.
Peter Greenaway, though he eventually moved away from avant garde, started out as a Gov. film editor and found much of his inspiration through the mundanity of editing TV documentaries and the like.
>>63444423
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hutton_%28filmmaker%29
>He has taught filmmaking at CalArts, Hampshire College, Harvard University, SUNY Purchase, and Bard College, where he has served as the director of the Film and Electronic Arts Program since 1989.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Benning_%28film_director%29
>Benning moved west to teach film/video at California Institute of the Arts, and has taught there ever since.
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>>63444560
ty senpaitachi
