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Danny examines how the digital revolution has opened up new ways of making movies.

Festen, made at the tail end of the 20th century, revealed the unavoidable future for the movies and digital cameras, using equipment many filmmakers would have seen as a toy.

But Festen, the first Dogme 95 film, still cost over a million dollars to produce. The real revolution, beyond the liberation of the camera, was ushered in by Jonathan Caouette's autobiopic, Tarnation, with its ultra lo-fi aesthetic and budget of $218. Danny looks at how it foretold mainstream society's obsessive fascination with self-curation.

And he traces a direct line between Georges Méliès’ silent 1902 classic, A Voyage To The Moon, and Alfonso Cuarón's beautiful and terrifying computer rendition of the vastness of space, Gravity (2013).

Back on earth, the great Iranian director Jafar Panahi was making truly underground films. Having served time in jail for 'propaganda activities', Panahi avoided the gaze of the authorities by shooting Taxi Tehran on a dashboard camera.

Digital is the fifth episode of Film Now with Danny Leigh: What the Hell Happened?, a series about film in the 21st century.

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