Future of the Feature Response

I found this article to be a summation and very thorough message similar to what we discussed a lot in class last semester in digital filmmaking. It was also very nice to read an article like this and have seen a good majority of the films mentioned or have a good idea of who many of the names are.
Even though my generation is in this amazing time where anyone can make a movie and we have access to all the tools. These tools are now smaller, more portable, and cheaper, I still feel too swept up in it. I'm not sure how to explain it, but I feel like I don't have the best frame of reference to appreciate these facts and how culturally significant digital has become. I wish I had the point of view and experience Coppola and Godard had when they dreamt of these things.
I do like that since the technology is out there for everyone on a certain plain the movie making process isn't so much about money. Descent cameras aren't too expensive and iMovie isn't a bad program. But on the Hollywood defensive they make it even more about money because that's what we don't have. Maybe this could be similar to the painters' reaction to photography. They tried to emphasize what photography couldn't do and impressionism was born.

I really enjoy the passages to the Dogme 95 movement because I had some existing knowledge about it, I just added many more other movies to my netflix queue though. This article also made me re-think a few movies I really didn't like. For example, The Pillow Book. I'm glad that TimeCode and Russian Ark were mentioned, they were both clearly significant steps for DV.

It's an interesting moral quandary I have between film and video. Even though in idea DV is so much better because of it's democracy and relevance in current culture and technology, I still want that look film has. Technology and virtuality are fascinating but there's something about organic processes I can't help but go back to. The physical object of each frame is something special and denied to many today because of cost. I've never shot film but I admire it.