Syndicate: D.FILM Digital Film Festival

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl>]

Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:51:08 -0700
From: Bart Cheever <bcheever@earthlink.net>
To: bart@dfilm.com
Subject: D.FILM Digital Film Festival - New Venue Call For Entries

D.FILM TO LAUNCH THE NEW VENUE


June 1st, 1998

New online festival of films made specifically for the internet


CALL FOR ENTRIES


On June 1st The D.FILM Digital Film Festival will launch the NEW
VENUE, an online film festival which will showcase films created for
the internet. This new area of the site was developed with a grant
from Stanford University and was created by Jason Wishnow.


The web will be a powerful resource for filmmakers working outside of
the traditional Hollywood studio/TV network system. It will give
filmmakers the ability to make their work available to anyone anywhere
in the world with net access.


Even today, movies on the web are becoming commonplace. Yet virtually
all movies that are on the web were created for some other medium, ie,
to be projected in a theater or seen on a TV monitor, and then merely
"scaled-down" for the web.


Our goal with the New Venue is to get filmmakers to stop looking at
this new medium in terms of the old one and to start developing a new
aesthetic for web filmmaking. Although there are obvious drawbacks to
making movies for the web, like smaller window sizes, compression,
slower frame rates, etc. we want to get filmmakers working with and
incorporating these limitations into a new style of filmmaking. Much
as underground filmmakers have used the grittiness of Super 8 and 16mm
cameras as hallmarks of the underground film style.


We also see that high bandwidth on the net is becoming more of a
reality every day, from $40 a month cable modems with 1.5 - 3 MB/sec
download speeds which are now in the field, to high speed satellite
modems and the telephone companies' new DSL technology. The bandwidth
is coming soon - the time to start figuring out how we make films for
this medium however, is now.


Beginning June 1st, The New Venue will begin showing a new film every
week, and we're looking for innovative submissions created for the
web.  For a preview of The New Venue and information on how to submit
work, go to the D.FILM site at http://www.dfilm.com Also, be sure to
check out Flick Tips, an online guide to creating movies for the web.


Special thanks to David Nestor and the Stanford Arts Technology
Initiative.



D.FILM:

The D.FILM Digital Film Festival is a traveling and online film
festival showing the ways technology is changing filmmaking.  For
years only a few networks and film studios could afford this kind of
technology - today you can probably run it on the desktop of the
computer you have in your home right now.  Just get a camera, get a 3D
package and go do it.


D.FILM was started by key members of the Low Res Film Festival, which
is now defunct.


Coming soon: the D.FILM Home Video, more D.FILM live shows, and more.
Stay tuned for details.

Email info@dfilm.com



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