Manifestos for artists starting being produced around 1910 and as cinema developed as a medium, so did manifestos acting as calls to revolution and changes in culture. There is a lot of history behind it but our session was mainly focused about why would you create a manifesto today and then at the end we were tasked with drawing up our own. First, we looked at some prominent movements and manifestos regarding film, for example, we looked at ‘Dogme 95’, ‘French New Wave’ and ‘Situationism’. I’m not a big fan of rules to be honest, so I found all of this quite hard to grasp and so in order to come up with my own manifesto I had to think and reflect on why I would want to do it for quite a while.
For me, I would want to create a movement not with the intention of changing cultural and political views/systems but rather to challenge the way I personally think and create. So in my pair we drew up a manifesto that would really go against our conventional approaches to film making and by making it very specific, it would push us to think creatively to come up with a short film that fulfilled the brief.
Our movement is called ‘One Shot, One Dance’ and this is the manifesto:
The short film we decided to make to suit the manifesto was a one shot film, shot on a gimbal, that follows a young man and his relationship with music.
PCA Isobel Wilkinson - BA Film 