Film festivals, or more precisely, the film-cultural, social and economic roles of film festivals have become the subject of discussion, and that not just since the corona pandemic. The unique… Read More
What is the point of film festivals?
Analysis
Film festivals: spatiotemporal expansion leads to distortions in the cinema and festival landscape
At the beginning of the pandemic, when cinemas everywhere were completely closed, film festivals only had the choice between canceling or going online. Since the relaxations for cinemas, i.e. in… Read More
Too much content – studies show how #stayathome influences media usage
The fact that media usage has increased exponentially during the pandemic should come as no surprise. Statistics show that Netflix & co. have benefitted disproportionately from this development. In… Read More
Return to the cinema? Streamers shuffle the film industry and redistribute cards
Around the year 2000 the former Big Six, now Big Five after the merger of Disney and Fox, the six big Hollywood film studios, released more than 200 movies a… Read More
Jeffrey Katzenberg announces premium short form video platform Quibi – Hollywood meets Silicon Valley
The rapid increase in the production of short video forms for mobile terminals is obvious. But most of what we see is user-generated contributions from amateurs. Hollywood producer legend Jeffrey… Read More
The Secret Film History of Argentina
The synonymous usage of the terms “experimental film” and “avant-garde film” is a relatively recent phenomenon: In Germany, designating a work as “experimental” had a negative connotation for a long time. This is related to the situation whereby in the turbulent 1960s, influential writers such as Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Die Aporien der Avantgarde/The Aporia of the Avant-Garde, 1962) or Siegfried Kracauer (Theorie des Films/Theory of Film, 1964) demanded of art, and indeed in general, that it should not occur “remote from everyday life” either parallel to or outside society, but rather assume responsibility. Read More
Review of award-winning short films in 2018 – a brief analysis
In a tradition going back to 2008, we now present our annual review of award-winning short films over the past year. Listing the winners invariably results in a kind… Read More
Cinema-on-Demand – New Movie Exploitation Models
When the new communication technologies – which we generally call social media today – were implemented into mobile phones about 10 years ago, resourceful nerds and cinema-loving fans came… Read More
Film Festivals in Cinema Programmes of Major Cities – A New Global Business Model
The first part of the research focused on scam festival calls for entries, as well as on pseudo festivals that are held beyond the public sphere. In connection with… Read More
Review of award-winning short films in 2017 – a brief analysis
Based on the impression that just a handful of short films take the lion’s share of awards and honours each year all over the world, we decided several years ago… Read More
A review of award-winning short films in 2016 – and a small evaluation
After getting the impression at some point that just a handful of short films scoop up the lion’s share of awards and honours each year worldwide, we began publishing here… Read More
Short of Sleep. Political Dimensions of the Short Film Format
In this text, the intention is not to show that the short film format is especially political, nor to reveal the extent to which it may be so, nor whether it is any more political than other filmic formats. Instead, I would like to discuss, on the basis of the three examples provided, in which way these films, on the one hand, engage with politics in terms of their content and, on the other hand, how they have become political themselves with regard to the way and manner in which they were produced and are presented. Read More
User behaviour regarding the reception of (challenging) short films on the internet
Due to the numerous possibilities for uploading and watching films on the internet, the number of short films released on online platforms continues to soar. That is hardly surprising as… Read More
Review of award-winning short films in 2015 – a brief appraisal
After getting the impression at some point that just a handful of short films scoop up the lion’s share of awards and honours each year all over the world, we… Read More
Review of award-winning short films in 2014 – a brief appraisal
In keeping with our tradition, we provide here a review of the award-winning short films of the past year. Listing the winners invariably results in a kind of Hit Parade… Read More
Production Reality vs. The Law – German Short Film in Numbers
The last extensive study of German short film was published in 2006, with films from 2003 and 2004 as its basis. At that time, about 2,000 short films were being… Read More
Rückblick auf die Kurzfilmpreisträger 2013 – eine kleine Auswertung
Wie in den Jahren zuvor liefern wir wieder einen Rückblick auf die Kurzfilmpreisträger des Vorjahres. Erfreulich ist, dass im Jahr 2013 die Zahl der Länder aus denen weltweit Kurzfilmpreisträger kamen,… Read More
Review of award-winning short films in 2012 – a brief appraisal
After getting 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 now publish an… Read More
Short Film support – Requirements for the New German Film Funding Law
by Jutta Wille Even if short film only receives low amounts of funding when compared to the overall film funding situation in Germany, it has made a decisive contribution… Read More
Review of award-winning short films in 2011
After getting 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 now publish an… Read More
Review of award-winning short films in 2010 – a brief appraisal
Based on 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 now publish an… Read More
Review of award-winning short films in 2009 – a brief appraisal
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
Review of award-winning short films in 2008 – a brief appraisal
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