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Conversations and reflections

Michael Winterbottom’s survey of independent filmmaking
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December 2021, no. 438

Dark Matter: Independent filmmaking in the 21st century by Michael Winterbottom

British Film Institute, $34.99 pb, 208 pp

Conversations and reflections

Michael Winterbottom’s survey of independent filmmaking
by
December 2021, no. 438

Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon is perhaps the best-known film never made. But what about others that never happened? What might a closer look at these reveal about the state of filmmaking? Such unmade films constitute the ‘dark matter’ of British director Michael Winterbottom’s book Dark Matter: Independent filmmaking in the 21st century. The invisible dark matter of the cosmos shapes our universe; without it many galaxies would fly apart. For Winterbottom, an examination of cinematic dark matter ‘might help to explain the wider landscape of British independent cinema’ this century.

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