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Taking the abolishment of the UK Film Council in 2010 as its
launching pad, Anarchy in the UK is by no means a film that laments
on how bad everything has gotten since and how the gouvernment owes
filmmakers money ... well, sure, investment in national culture is
invariably a good thing, but by 2010 (and even more so since), filmmaking
technology has become so cheap and accessible (heck, you can even shoot a
quality film on your phone) that a bunch of guerilla filmmakers have
emerged all over the country to just shoot their own movies, no matter
what, to just shoot and learn from experience rather than go to fancy film
schools, giving the whole underground movement (though it can be called
that on the loosest terms) an extremely punk rock attitude. But with more
and more films being made outside of the "system", more and more
festivals and pop-up cinemas popped up to actually show them, making this
a very vibrant, very anti-mainstream, and very eclectic scene ... If
you're at all into films outside of the mainstream, it's almost impossible
to not be sucked into Anarchy in the UK: The New Underground Cinema,
as it's much more than just a talking heads documentary - sure, there are
those too, many filmmakers, festival organizers and fans from all over the
country, and their fascination for their art alone is infectuous already,
but the movie's also full of entirely weird footage, only partly taken
from the movies it concerns but also from news reels and of course stock
footage, some of which you've probably seen in a completely different
context before - which all makes for a fascinating film, and one that very
possibly will make you want to watch more British underground cinema ... ...
and if that has gotten you at all interested, feel free to watch the movie
(for free) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpNA75b2hCw
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