Kuchar twins made early films on tenement rooftops with neighbor actors

Evidence

Having spent the better part of their adolescence producing 8mm travesties of Hollywood movies, largely shot on Bronx tenement rooftops and starring their neighbors, they were hailed as brilliant primitives. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 434

Categorization

• XREF: Do-it-yourself production without any infrastructure — amateurism as precondition, relevant to the thesis that avant-gardes need low barriers to entry.