How to Make a Film on No Budget

NO-BUDGET film-making: Presented by: Ethan Minsker from Ethan H. Minsker on Vimeo.

Learn how to make a no-budget film with a big-budget feel using little more than the camera on your smart phone. All you need is a great story and a few good tips.

Ethan Minsker is a writer and filmmaker living in New York City. He is the co-founder of the Antagonist Movement, Inc., a consortium of artists, writers and musicians based in New York’s East Village. His film Self-Medicated: A Film About Art was a 2014 Tallgrass Film Festival Official Selection.

links to the videos in this workshop:
RUSSIAN NEWS SERVICE

ACTION ASSASSINS part 3

The Soft Hustle

This Is Berlin Not New York

The Soft Hustle Q&A screening in Berlin Germany 2007

Project-Nerd Fanzine Talk

Project-Nerd Fanzine Talk with Ethan Minsker of Psycho Moto Zine from Ethan H. Minsker on Vimeo.

Project-Nerd personality Erin Lei and Nerdcast host Iggy sat down with anime reviewer Jorge and the man behind The Antagonist Movement, Ethan Minsker. The four talked about zines.

Hear the full podcast HERE

See the full trailer for Self Medicated: a film about art

See past issues of Psycho Moto Zine here.

See more of Ethan's videos related to zines at the links below:
Zine trailer

Brooklyn Zine Fest

Fanzine workshop 1

Fanzine workshop 2

Death to Blogs Start a Zine

Fanzine Workshop in Sydney

Fanzine workshop with Ethan Minsker from Ethan H. Minsker on Vimeo.

Hand crafted magazines: We gave a short presentation on our fanzine and then taught the kids how to make their own from scratch with paper, scissors, and staplers. Fanzines can give the voiceless a powerful way to reach a larger audience. For myself, making fanzines was a way to build a community of artists who later became the Antagonist Movement.

Psycho Moto Zine is a periodical published from the late 1980s to the present, consisting mostly of short stories, reviews, and artwork. The zine was originally published in 1989 under the name East Coast Exchange. Copies were produced illicitly by friends who worked in copy shops during Minsker’s college years at School of Visual Arts in New York City and in Washington D.C. during Minsker’s summer breaks.

By 1994 Psycho Moto Zine (PMZ) had transformed into an arts and literary fanzine with reviews that covered underground art, fanzines, films, and music. This connection between different creative elements was the inspiration for what would later become the Antagonist Art Movement.
Citizens For The Arts is a Non-Profit, 501c3 recognized, organization. Its main function is to promote unknown and overlooked artists. We aim to build communities via workshops and other programming on a global and local level.

We are a working board, and do not get compensated for these projects. With each project, we aim to expand, influence, and help others develop their identity in a creative format. Your donation big or small is a vote to continue this work. Its a tax deduction and as easy as Paypal payment. For more information please email us at nycitizens.info@gmail.com

If you like the band here is a music video I did for them.
vimeo.com/133690520

Action Assassins Part 4

ACTION ASSASSINS part 4 from Ethan H. Minsker on Vimeo.

Episode title: Killing MR Pluto

This is a film I made in 1984. All one takes.

Music is by Joff Wilson
soundcloud.com/joff_wilson

Action Assassins Part 3

ACTION ASSASSINS part 3 from Ethan H. Minsker on Vimeo.

Episode title: Upstairs Guy Versus Downstairs Guy

This is a film I made all by myself in 1984.

Music is by Joff Wilson
soundcloud.com/joff_wilson

A Belated Christmas Special

The McCaffery Christmas Special from Ethan H. Minsker on Vimeo.

The McCaffery Christmas Special is something I did every year. Just me filming and no one else ever saw it, until now! Now you can't unsee it. I will say sorry for the rape joke. I don't think rape is funny. I do like that fact the rapist dies in the puppet show. If you have any questions or comments leave it below. 

Filmed in Glover-park Washington, DC in 1983 on a Betamax.

Russian News Service

RUSSIAN NEWS SERVICE from Ethan H. Minsker on Vimeo.

When I was a kid I remember watching Kentucky Fried Movie and there being a scene like this. I was 14 years old. It was 1984. But we still hate the Russians? I can't keep up.

Two Blocks of Lower East Side Fame

Puma Perl gives a brief, wonderful account of the Antagonists, our visit to Sydney, and our most recent film, Self Medicated: a Film about Art. Check out the piece in Chelsea Now!

Ghost Gun

Ghost Gun from Ethan H. Minsker on Vimeo.

This is a test for an art installation.
These guns move with the whim of a slight breeze, pointing in all directions reflecting the randomness of being targeted and killed. This is meant to be a memorial for the victims of gun violence. I have personally lost friends, and with mass murders and killings in the news looping over and over this project reflects on this subject. Each gun is meant to represent one person killed by a gun. The viewer adds the name. I will make 300 guns for the installation. In the center of the room will be a white box where the viewer can wright the name and what happened to someone they lost to a gun. I will then make a fanzine with selected text from the box. The space behind the box will have the guns hanging and I will place a mark on the floor where people can take a photo selfie and ask them to hashtag #Ghostgun.

I have no clue where I would show this.