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by maaku 5201 days ago
> What’s more stunning still is that most of the $7,000 budget was film stock. Because it was filmed. On film. Ain’t nothing like the 16mm look, truly.

And what's even more stunning is that most of it was done in one take because, well, they only had $7,000 to budget on film stock.

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Shane Caruth also starred in the movie, wrote it, directed it, edited, and wrote the soundtrack all on his own dime.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film)