Watching Indie

21 Observations From People Watching

Shani Zhang | Skin Contact | 2nd April 2025

Wedding artist makes notes on how strangers move through a room. “Some people are more like closed fists, others are more like open palms. Many of the driven people I have met are closed fists: warm, charming and ready to punch through a wall at any point in time. My favourite kind of person has an elasticity in their movements. There is an openness that does not need to be announced” (1,900 words)

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Anonymous Interview: The Indie Producer

The Vane | 13th May 2025

State of filmmaking today. Small movies are getting smaller, made with micro-donations from GoFundMe campaigns. Movies look worse today than they did fifteen years ago for many reasons: digital video is lit differently from celluloid with many “plasticky” elements; scenes are relocated after being shot due to script rewrites; the “production pipeline is ultimately adverse to specificity” (6,000 words)