Do It Yourself Auteurs: A Cinematic Blizzard
Jamie Stuart’s short film “Man in a Blizzard,” took just one day to complete during New York’s brutal Christmas time blizzard of 2010. It became a triumph of DIY indie filmmaking when Roger Ebert recommended it be nominated for an Oscar, and as of now has over 500,000 views on YouTube.One reason Ebert cited for recommending “Man in a Blizzard” was “It’s role as homage. It is directly inspired by Dziga Vertov’s 1929 silent classic, Man With a Movie Camera. “Man in a Blizzard” was shot on a digital single lens reflex camera but does indeed reach back to a tradition of poetic, semi-documentary experimental film known as the city symphony.
The following video pays tribute to both Stuart’s video and the legacy of similar movies that came before it.
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