KROK International Animated Film Festival, MV “St. Petersburg” (Ukraine) || 28.09.2015 Grand Prix: Brutus, Svetlana Filippova, RU Special Alexander Tatarskiy Prize : We Can’t Live Without Cosmos, Konstantin Bronzit, RU… Read More
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Till Nowak
Ein kauziger alter Mann steht auf dem Balkon. Die Aussicht ist trist, der Rauch unzähliger Fabrikschlote verdunkelt den Himmel. Fürsorglich wässert der Mann eine einzelne Blume, die in einem rostigen Kasten den schlechten Bedingungen trotzt. Read More
Film history
Film history: Association L’Abominable publishes a catalogue of works L’Abominable is a non-profit organization that has been operating a very special film lab outside Paris for nearly 20 years. Filmmakers… 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
Which Funding and Support Does Short Film Need?
Several years have already passed since the “right” funding and support for short film was discussed under this motto during the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. And the answer still… 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
Microcinemas and pop-ups – alternative forms of cinema offering everything from six-packs to champagne bars
In the midst of complaints about the crisis of cinema, some new and alternative forms of film exhibition are in fact flourishing. Unfortunately, few studies or publications are available to… Read More
Le Jour le plus court
Le Jour le plus court: Short film day on 21 December goes international The 21st of December this year is the winter solstice. In Central Europe it will remain dark… Read More
Susann Maria Hempel
Alltägliche Szenen des menschlichen Zusammenlebens surreal inszeniert, fast schon eine Art performative Installation zwischen Traum und Wirklichkeit – so wirken die aneinander gereihten bizarren Sequenzen in Susann Maria Hempels Film WIE IST DIE WELT SO STILLE (2012). Read More
New Super-8 camera
A new Super 8 camera – featuring digital support and 3D printed parts Logmar, a family business in Aalborg (Denmark), has been working on the design of cine film cameras… 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 device or product is obsolete when it is so… Read More
Anniversary: 60th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen – “Memories Can’t Wait – Film without Film”
In 2014, Oberhausen turns 60 – the oldest short film festival in the world was founded in 1954 as the “West German Educational Film Festival”. From the founding ideal of… Read More
Short film in France – new study by CNC
For the fourth year in a row, the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC) has conducted an extensive study on short film in France. Published in February… Read More
In the cinema
Impatiently we hop from channel to channel when the programmes on TV do not spark our immediate interest. We have long become zappers and surfers with attention spans so short… 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
Network Awesome curates YouTube videos
Instead of television: Network Awesome curates YouTube videos According to the latest media usage report conducted by the Nielsen market research institute (New York), the number of US households that… Read More
Crowdsourcing and participatory art – Gillian Wearing invites submissions for film project
Hundreds of appeals have gone out in the past to participate in collective film projects, but this one is different. Or maybe not? The project is called “Your Views” and… Read More
Opinion on the impact of digitization on film culture institutions
Netzwerk Filmkultur NRW publishes opinion on the impact of digitization on film culture institutions Netzwerk Filmkultur NRW has published a paper titled “Filmkultur 2.0″ on how digitization is affecting the… Read More
Mariola Brillowska
Critical wanderer between artistic worlds She added it all up once. Reduced her artistic work to a simple sum of minutes of film produced. It came to just twenty minutes… Read More
XFR STN – Media restoration and archiving
XFR STN – Media restoration and archiving for everyone This summer, the gallery on the fifth floor of the New Museum in the Bowery (New York) is open for artists… Read More
Obsolescence – Part 1: The preservation and restoration of electronic media
New digital media are rendering their old analogue counterparts obsolete. Innovations have of course always resulted in the replacement of old technologies. But the current changeover from old to new… Read More
The filmless film festival
Ten years ago it was still unthinkable that a film festival could be held without analogue films. Today, the ratio of digital projections at feature film festivals is already between… Read More
BAFTA short film nominations
Campaign to promote the BAFTA short film nominations in the UK Every year, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards the best in British film – including… 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
A successful year in 2012
A successful year in 2012 – artists’ film and video as reflected in art-market ratings Can artists’ importance, and ultimately the value of their works, be measured objectively? The German… Read More
Quo Vadis Short Film? Notes on the Status of and the Perspectives for an Underestimated Film Genre
The most important cinematographic pool from which short film retrospectives are compiled for festivals comes from a bygone era. Over a period lasting several decades, it was standard screening practice… Read More