A $1,200 film won a Venice Film Festival prize

Evidence

His brother Adolfas (to whom he gave equal credit) winnowed the footage down to 65 minutes. The film, which cost about $1,200 to make, would win the Best Documentary prize at the 1964 Venice Film Festival. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1906

Categorization

• CANDY: A $1,200 film winning Venice is a great trivia fact.
• XREF: Plausibly connects to the reader’s broader argument about cheap production as a precondition for avant-garde density.