What's a film? Can tell you this: What you've been watching in theatres over the past few years, is not. It's digital — both, for how it's captured, and projected on screen. And yet the most popular image to represent movies is a long film reel, with square sprockets on either ends, that nobody uses anymore. What does digital do that films cannot? Raw stock cost is as good as zero. Anyone can hold a camera, and so technically, everyone can be a filmmaker. Does that change the language of films as well? Totally.

The first big movement around digital filmmaking, Dogme 95, took place in the mid-'90s, pioneered by its finest exponent, Danish master Lars von Trier, aiming to rid cinema of every sort of superficiality, right down to removing the background score (only natural sound), let alone opening/closing credits. The idea was to capture the world in its raw, original form. Because? You could.