Cinema Petit is
Detroit's first international cell phone film festival celebrating a new tool for film and image-making: the cell phone. The festival, run by graduate students from
Wayne State University
Wayne State University (WSU) is a public university, public research university in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1868, Wayne State consists of 13 schools and colleges offering approximately 375 programs. It is Michigan's third-l ...
, invites the world to look at and partake in the enormous possibilities that cellular media offers.
About
In 1949's "A Dialectic Approach to Film Form," Soviet director and film theorist
Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein; (11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, film editor and film theorist. Considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, he was a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. He is no ...
wrote that the filmic shot is not an "element" of montage, but a "cell." In the seventy-eight years following, our understanding of film and editing has dramatically changed, but the concept of "cell" has a new significance today. With the arrival of new cellular technologies and imaging devices, we enter the
hypermodern era.
Much like
Dziga Vertov
Dziga Vertov (born David Abelevich Kaufman; – 12 February 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist. His filming practices and theories influenced the cinéma vérité style of documentary ...
's ''Kino-eye'',
kino-eye.com
/ref> the cellular eye is ready to capture daily life. Connected to and connecting the world through mobile phones, making the moving image truly mobile. Cinema Petit encourages the growth and expansion of new genres.
References
External links
Cinema Petit
''The Brian Lehrer Show: Cell Phone Films''
''CELLuloid: Cell Phone-Made Documentaries'' at MOMA, NY
''Cell Phone Art'' at the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
''Pocket Film Festival'', FR
Film festivals in Michigan
Wayne State University
Festivals in Detroit
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