<videovortex> Micro-tactile-sensual

[Dan Oki]

What about films made to be watched exclusively on mobile phone screens.
Directing concept for small size screens, extremely tactile and close to
the body of the viewer is what makes the mobile moving image specific.
They can be screened on the Festivals, but it does not make sense for me.

I saw Isabella Rossellini's and Jody Shapiro's Green Porno (2008-2010)
first on the Mobile phone screen and it was great. Micro-tactile-sensual.
Then I saw it on the big screen Festival and it was out of context.
Glamour ate it up completely. Interesting that she says this:

"Watching [war epic] Apocalypse Now on a mobile telephone is no fun - it
was conceived as a big spectacle. But this tiny screen can be a new canvas
for directors," Rossellini said.



> 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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