<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div>We are pleased to announce that Sightlines: Filmmaking in the Academy Journal Issue 5 is now online.</div>
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<div>Special Issue: Mobile and Smartphone Filmmaking - Past, Present & Future<br/>
<a href="https://www.aspera.org.au/issue-5">https://www.aspera.org.au/issue-5</a></div>
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<div>In the Sightlines tradition, Mobile and Smartphone Filmmaking – Past, Present & Future showcases screen productions and films made in a research context within the higher education sector. These non-traditional research outputs interrogate various aspects of creative arts research, including interactive and collaborative processes, experimental moving-image arts approaches, discursive socio-political formations, or mobile specific formations such as selfies and vertical video. This special issue invited those who presented research work at the Mobile Studies Congress at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (December 2022) or screened a mobile or smartphone film previously at MINA’s International Mobile Innovation Screenings & Smartphone Film Festival (2011-2023) to submit a work for consideration. This resulting issue features 12 mobile and smartphone films. Seven of the creative practice research works were created between 2015 to 2021 and five more recent smartphone films and screen production research projects were produced in 2022.</div>
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<div>MINA, the Mobile Innovation Network and Association, and SF3, the SmartFoneFlick Fest, present a snapshot of mobile and smartphone filmmaking practice curated by Max Schleser and Angela Blake.</div>
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<div><a href="https://vimeo.com/827159878">https://vimeo.com/827159878</a></div>
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<div>This compilation reel provides an overview of the continuous innovation and aesthetic refinement in smartphone filmmaking from 2017 to 2022. In order to define mobile and smartphone filmmaking one can examine these films in relation to broader works in this original film form and format. This screening reel establishes a keyframe for future analysis.</div>
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<div><strong>The Special Issue contributors</strong><br/>
Patrick Kelly - On Queer Selfies (2022)<br/>
Felix Gyebi - Kukunor ni Tsu (2022)<br/>
Liz Burke - Aliens Among Us - a Film about People and their Dogs (2022)<br/>
Dafydd Sills-Jones and Roger Owen - Amrywiaethau Cafflogion #3: Uniongyrchol, Esgair Fraith, Alun (Cafflogion Variations #3: Vertical, Esgair Fraith, Alun) (2022)<br/>
Catherine Gough-Brady - Creating 70+: Film Production Process as Relational Acts (2022)<br/>
Aparna Sharma - Still Life (2021)<br/>
Martin Koszolko - Ngannelong / Hanging Rock (2021)<br/>
Anna Chiara Sabatino - Video-pharmakon: Mobile Filmmaking as Therapeutic Creative Practice (2021)<br/>
Miranda Wilson - Letterbox Populi (2020)<br/>
David Cowlard - Lung (2016)<br/>
Justin Harvey - Curtain (2016)<br/>
Hiran Matheus - Pau de Selfie (2015)</div>
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<div><strong>Editorial Committee</strong><br/>
Max Schleser, Swinburne University of Technology (Guest co-editor)<br/>
Pieter Aquilia, Australian Film, Television and Radio School</div>
<div>Marsha Berry, RMIT University</div>
<div>Kath Dooley, University of South Australia</div>
<div>Bettina Frankham, University of Technology Sydney<br/>
Phoebe Hart, Queensland University of Technology</div>
<div>James Verdon, Swinburne University of Technology</div></div></body></html>