Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Habana (Cuba) Premio El Mégano: Camionero, Sebastián Miló, Cuba Premio Mediometraje o corto de ficción: La trucha, Luis Ernesto Doñas Gómez, Cuba Further awards… Read More
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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
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
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
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
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
Things change: Animated film archives in the digital age
Film archives traditionally consist of stacked film reels in cold storage. But the holdings of archives for animated film also include production materials such as props, dolls, sets, screenplays, storyboards… Read More
Copenhagen Art Festival
Copenhagen Art Festival: Lars von Trier oversees a total cinematic work of art In 2010, the Danish Arts Council held a competition for a major event on the topic of… Read More
Marion Pfaus
The (Un-)Mistakable Marion Pfaus likes to play with different identities. On her website, the Berliner by choice coyly asserts that she is constantly being mistaken for someone else. Indeed, for… Read More
Festivals show online films live
On 7 June 2012 the Vimeo Awards were presented at the second Vimeo Festival in New York. Hosted by the online platform, the event is a further example of the… Read More
Streaming video – The reformatting of film and video art on the Internet
Streaming video technologies are becoming increasingly important, not to mention useful, for filmmakers and video artists. Technical improvements and advances such as cloud computing, larger data storage capacities and better… 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
Norwegian media art
Three-year pilot project launched to archive Norwegian media art In 2007 the Arts Council Norway published the report “í… bevare det flyktige” (On preserving the ephemeral), which painted a sad… Read More
Upload Cinema – Web short films at the cinema
Not long after YouTube was founded in 2005, people were already starting to download videos from the platform and present them elsewhere. This usually took place privately – for example… Read More
The year of the curators – A reader’s digest of a mega-trend
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
Digital short films – from production to cinema
The digitization of cinema opens up completely new possibilities for putting films on the screen – options once attainable only at a high price and with a great deal of… Read More
Constellation.tv
Constellation.tv combines social marketing with video-on-demand In early 2011 the video-on-demand platform Constellation.tv was launched – by its own account the “first global movie theatre”. What’s special about the platform… Read More
Gruppe Weimar
Short films for kids Children watch too much television. Ten-year-olds sit in front of the box for an average of over 100 minutes a day. Everyone agrees that escalating television… Read More
Eyewitness films on Internet platforms – An introduction and four examples of media convergence
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
Experimental Television Center closes
The end of an era – the legendary Experimental Television Center closes In 1971 Ralph Hocking and friends founded the Experimental Television Center (ETC) in New York. Now, after a… Read More
Gut und unter 10 Minuten
Gut und unter 10 Minuten – Kurzfilmverleih in Deutschland von Cornelia Walter Er mag ein Festivalliebling sein und seine Erfolgsgeschichte im Netz haben – eines ist der Kurzfilm sicher nicht,… Read More