25 years of Metrópolis
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
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
B-Side forced to close after five successful years when investors withdraw support About one year ago, we mentioned here on shortfilm.de the new business idea hatched by the Austin-based film… Read More
Arabshorts.net – a platform for short films from Arab countries Since December 2009 the Goethe Institute in Cairo has been presenting young filmmakers from the Arab world on the website… Read More
Prompted by the impression that just a handful of short films scoop up the lion’s share of awards and honours each year all over the world, we published here two… Read More
Dubai International Film Festival (UAE) First Prize Shorts: ROOS DJAJ (Chicken Heads), Bassam Ali Jarbawi (Palestine) Special Jury Prize Shorts: 9AAB (9 August), Talal Khoury (Lebanon) Second Prize Shorts: RAPHSODY… Read More
New questions on European media funding In our Topic article in September 2009 on the European MEDIA funding programme, we also mentioned support for film festivals. We referred there to… Read More
Animate Projects launches new “Engine” online platform (UK) Engine is a new online channel for debate and discussion exploring the intersections between diverse areas of film and media art. Founded… Read More
Sex sells: Dirty Diaries a controversial hit worldwide (S) Two employees of the Swedish production company Story AB have produced twelve short films under the title “Dirty Diaries”, characterizing their… Read More
Not all too long ago, short film festivals were few and far between. Their organizational form and mode of operation was pretty much the same all over the world. Festivals… 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
Chris Marker, 88 years old, as newbie in Second Life On 29 July French filmmaker Chris Marker turned 88. As place of birth he likes to say the area around… 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
Domino effect: Finance crisis sending waves through cultural sector Out of the American real estate crisis grew a finance crisis, which in turn has spawned a global economic crisis. By… Read More
Prompted by the impression that just a handful of short films scoop up the lion’s share of awards and honours all over the world each year, we published here at… Read More
Financial crisis in the film industry – Internet as rescuer of indie film The financial crisis is now being felt in the film industry as well. While cinemas have not… Read More
The Worldwide Short Film Festival Toronto 2008 or How I Tried to Sell My Film in Toronto In June 2008 the Worldwide Shortfilm Festival occurred for the 14th time in… Read More
Swedish short film platform Glimz.net offers curated video-on-demand programmes In late October 2008, the Swedish video-on-demand platform “glimz.net” presented its first thematic programmes put together by external curators. Called Vision… 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
Grimstad Short Film Festival – A new beacon on the festival scene (under construction) In June 2007, the Norwegian short film festival in Grimstad celebrated 30 years of existence. This… 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
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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
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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