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...
View ArticleDigital options for self-distribution of short films – an overview
Today, marketing and selling digital or digitised films online no longer poses any major technical problems, as filmmakers can draw on their experience with video and submission platforms. Tools for...
View ArticleInternational Short Film Festival Oberhausen launches Oberhausen Films Online
March 2011 saw the debut of “Oberhausen Films Online”, a new video-on-demand platform that functions as the virtual video library of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. On offer are...
View ArticleFrom book trailer to Vook – A new short film niche
A new niche has now joined the ranks of the many already filled by short film: the so-called “book trailer”. Book trailers are used to market books online. The idea...
View ArticleEyewitness films on Internet platforms – An introduction and four examples of...
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...
View ArticleDigital 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleStreaming 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...
View ArticleThings 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,...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleObsolescence – 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...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing and participatory art – Gillian Wearing invites submissions for...
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...
View ArticleIn 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...
View ArticleObsolescence – 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...
View ArticleMicrocinemas and pop-ups – alternative forms of cinema offering everything...
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...
View ArticleBest practice – Digital screening copies for festivals and cinemas
The digitization of cinema initially aroused hopes that short films would be able to make their way to the big screen much faster and at lower cost – without sacrificing...
View ArticleProgramming and curating short-film screenings Part 1: Short film in a...
Due to their length, short films are always screened as part of a programme comprising several films. Compiling a good programme is a creative challenge that requires a professional approach....
View ArticleProgramming and Curating Short Film Screenings Part 2: Short Films in Cinema...
Programmers and curators both exist in the cinema sector. However, for the majority of movie theatres it is not necessary to draw a terminological distinction between the two activities, as the...
View ArticleA 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...
View Article‘Move It’ and the challenges of alternative cinema programming
In 2016, Animate Projects¹ presented a series of touring programmes, Move It², for hire by cinemas across the UK. The four programmes offered a wide cross-section of current animation practice,...
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