
Film agencies as brokers between filmmakers and the film festivals. What does this achieve? A film business area that is still fresh. Read More
Film agencies as brokers between filmmakers and the film festivals. What does this achieve? A film business area that is still fresh. Read More
While queues of people were waiting at the cinema box offices in Leipzig to get tickets to the Dok International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, one of the most renowned film festivals globally, on 4 November 2016, about 80 staff members and representatives of film festivals and film-related initiatives, as well as freelancers and journalists, came together for an urgently needed stocktaking and review. Read More
Sorry, no English version available! Read More
Few months ago, the International Art Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia closed its doors. Still, the preparations for the next edition are already under way. Bit by bit the… Read More
1995 hat Dr. Scott Williams vom Rochester Institute of Technology ein vielbeachtetes Rezept veröffentlicht, mit der Schwarz-Weiß-Filme in einer Lösung, die auf Kaffee basiert, entwickelt werden können. Auf dieses Rezept… Read More
Das Kinderfilmfestival BUSTER und das Festival CPH PIX haben bekannt gegeben, dass sie dieses Jahr fusionieren. BUSTER wurde vor fünfzehn Jahren gegründet und ist inzwischen das größte Filmfestival für Kinder… Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 – 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 – 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
BFI and Film London put in charge of promoting British film – no funding for short film for the time being In July 2010 the British government decided to abolish… Read More
For more than 20 years Animate! in London has been the top address in the United Kingdom, if not all of Europe, for artistic animated film. Founded by legendary producer… Read More
by Stefanie Schlüter This text is the condensed version of a research paper commissioned by the International Short Film Festival (Oberhausen). The paper was presented to the public in a… Read More
Film in the White Cube – Philippe Parreno and the Serpentine Gallery demonstrate how to do it right Almost ten years ago we began to publish here texts on the… Read More
Sorry, no English version available! Original Page Read More
Agence du court métrage tests distribution of digitised short films The French short film agency has been running its distribution network Réseau alternatif de diffusion (RADI) for 20 years now… Read More
Although Super 8 plays a very minor role today now that the amateur film market has long since been swept up in the wave of digitisation, there is still a… Read More