It's too bad that you don't see the bigger picture here. Are you really this much against a movement which could bolster the strong use of film into the foreseeable future?
I don't think you're getting the point. You made it sound as if you were hoping for the birth of an artistic movement, which can lead to interesting discussions, but that's not it at all. Your post ranks with other "doom and gloom" threads about a possible, but so far unsubstantiated, demise of film. Apart from the obvious why do you think film is about to die question, your main problem is that it's impossible to create an
artistic movement that would be film-only based and intrinsically distinguishable from digitally-produced images, essentially because if there is a difference in the process
there is no difference in the end result and that's all that counts in an artistic movement.
That said, if you want to create a
social movement that would help keep film alive, that's easy. Go to a school, create a program in which you give, for a semester, free cameras and film to students, do different projects with them (film your parents, people in your neighborhood, etc.), and teach them darkroom basic skills. There are such programs already in some tough or poor neighborhoods in the US. Takes the kids off the streets, gives them purpose and meaning. Of course, for practical reasons, they do it with digital cameras, but it's not impossible to do it with film. Would take more planning and budget.
