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According to trend scouts on the Internet and in the features pages, 2011 was the year of the curators. Not the real-life curators, who have already had their year, but… Read More

Internet platforms have been springing up of late that feature documentation and recordings of current events as seen through the eyes of contemporary witnesses. Most of these are editorially supervised… Read More

A new niche has now joined the ranks of the many already filled by short film: the so-called “book trailer”. Book trailers are used to market books online. The idea… Read More

March 2011 saw the debut of “Oberhausen Films Online”, a new video-on-demand platform that functions as the virtual video library of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. On offer are… Read More

Today, marketing and selling digital or digitised films online no longer poses any major technical problems, as filmmakers can draw on their experience with video and submission platforms. Tools for… Read More

In our fast-paced times, it’s an unusual occurrence when a television show is able to celebrate its 25th anniversary. And when it’s a cultural programme – as in the case… Read More

The European Union has been granting funding for the digital distribution of audiovisual media since 2007 as part of its MEDIA Programme for the support of film and media. Projects… Read More

This spring, a counter-statement posted on the German website of Future Shorts took public a conflict on the German short-film scene revolving around the practices of the Future Shorts initiative…. Read More

In den 70er Jahren gründete Brian Eno das Label “Ambient”. Er prägte damit den Begriff der “ambient music” – elektronisch erzeugte, unaufdringliche Klangumgebungen für private und öffentliche Räume. In Ergänzung… Read More

“Carnage Software” Ego-shooters are digital, 3-D worlds full of terrorists and monsters in which the player only survives by killing as many opponents as possible. Depending on the default settings… Read More

It’s almost touching to see how the up-and-coming Web 2.0 generation has recently been forced against its will to come to terms in its own naí¯ve way with the theme… Read More

The upswing in short film production continues unbroken worldwide. Festivals such as the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen are already taking measures to stem the onslaught of submissions, having long… Read More

New trend amongst advertising-financed video hosters: Quality trumps quantity It hasn’t even been three years since the most prominent video-hosting platform for short film, YouTube, was founded. During that time,… Read More

In Spain, work in video has had a long and hard road to travel since the late 1960s before managing to visibly establish itself as an artistic form. Its historical… Read More

The following article introduces a very interesting project originally developed in the Netherlands and subsequently adapted in Belgium. ‘Dicht/Vorm’ is a crossover between poetry and animated film in which filmmakers… Read More

One of the major homes of experimental film in Europe, Light Cone film distribution, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. For the past quarter-century, Light Cone has been a key… Read More

The era of the classic found-footage film has come to an end. What was once an important, albeit marginal, but in any case very special filmmaking practice, has today, in… Read More

Obsolescence – Part 2: The renaissance of obsolete media In the first part of the theme article on obsolescence, we examined strategies for preserving works stored on obsolete media. A… Read More