There is a technogical revolution which is taking place: the digital camera phenomemon. It could radically change the film industry; certainly, it has already shaken its foundations. Inevitably, the film industry and forces of commerce will re-organize themselves to regain control, but in the meantime there is a period of creative anarchy that director Mike Figgis is exploring and exploiting. His film was shot in Venice over five weeks using digital cameras, cheap and available on most high streets. Forty actors and artists of one kind and another lived together in the Hungarian Palace Hotel and improvised a surrealist drama that incorporated "The Duchess of Malfi", a Jacobean tragedy by John Webster, into the story of a film crew in which the director is assassinated by the producer. An erotic feast of digital imagery emerged and this is the result.
- ISBN10 1861542453
- ISBN13 9781861542458
- Publish Date 1 September 2003
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 8 July 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Booth-Clibborn Editions
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English