<videovortex> first movie short entirely with smart phone

[Simons, J.A.A.]

They did. As far as I know the first feature film entirely shot with mobile phones is SMS Sugarman by the South African filmmaker Aryan Kaganof from 2008. At about the same time, Dutch filmmaker Cyrus Frisch made a feature length documentary with a mobile phone, Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me It Would Become This Bad in Afghanistan<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Didn%27t_Anybody_Tell_Me_It_Would_Become_This_Bad_in_Afghanistan> in 2007. Many of the advantages and affordances of small, light cameras 'discovered' by the makers of this iPhone 5 movie had already been explored with handheld digital video cameras by filmmakers like Lars von Trier and his Dogma95 movement. The iPhone 5 filmmakers probably never saw The Idiots or Festen.

Since SMS Sugarman and Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me.... a host of films have been made with mobile phones, though most of those were shorts. There was a tsunami of mobile phone film festivals around 2010, and a few attempts have been made at a mobile phone film theory and aesthetics.

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Op 4 mrt. 2014, om 18:02 heeft Tilman Baumgärtel <mail at tilmanbaumgaertel.net<mailto:mail at tilmanbaumgaertel.net>> het volgende geschreven:

Didn´t they say the same about Park Chan-wooks "Night-Fishing" three years ago?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Fishing_%28film%29

On 04-Mar-14 11:32 AM, Geert Lovink wrote:
http://www.gizmag.com/uneasy-lies-the-mind-iphone-movie/31058/

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