So if you want to you can make it a collaborative project and have a friend's band play along, burn a CD or make a cassette of sound effects or just watch it silent and revel in the warming whirl of the projector. Watching film is usually a more personal experience as well. There is a balance of voyeurism and intimacy between the audience and the filmmaker that the freestyle nature of the small film format lends itself to. This signature of an amateur filmmaker always rings like a bell, because we haven't yet mastered the technology enough for it to be disguised. It's the filmmaker's indelible fingerprint.
Art happens in amateur films.
Actually the Latin word amator means lover. It is their smallness that makes them big. I come away from a film feeling engaged, more human, and more connected. And for me, right now, that is just what our little world needs.