International Mobile Innovation Screening

International Mobile Innovation Screening

The Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa (MINA) is an international network that promotes cultural and research activities to expand the emerging possibilities of mobile media. This year’s MINA screening programme features recent pocket films, mobile-mentaries and smartphone film from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Columbia, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Poland, Sweden, UK and the USA. More than 70 films were received in an open call for submission.

The screening includes the work of first time filmmakers alongside internationally established filmmakers, photographers and designers.

At the time of organising this screening programme the iPhone 5 was launched. The video capacity of various mobile, smartphone and pocket cameras (including web-cams like Sony Bloggie or Go Pros) without doubt has now reached a standard that allows mobile filmmakers and creatives to produce work for the creative industries and film festivals internationally.

This year the circulation of smartphones outnumbered the volume of mobile phones. Most mobile devices (including tablets and pocket size digital cameras) have a HD video capacity and provide Internet connectivity. Since the proliferation of apps five years ago, new opportunities for creative mobile media production emerged. Mobile filmmaking is now an established format ranging from music video to TV commercial production. A number of contemporary apps feature location-based services that can create new experiences and representations of places. Mobile filmmaking also provides prospects for citizen journalists to expand the domain of videography. Contemporary forms of collaborative filmmaking projects connect 21st century citizens and filmmakers across the globe creating new forms of digital, networked and transmedia storytelling. As an egalitarian filmmaking tool and technology, mobile filmmaking provides access to a new generation of filmmakers. In alignment with the ubiquity of social media, mobile communication is shifting towards an increasingly visual realm. Micro formats of mobile filmmaking can be compared to early cinema and actuality film, while mobile short films resonate approaches and practices known from the field of experimental documentary and avant-garde moving-image practice.

The background of the filmmakers, designers and artists is as diverse as the programme itself. Mobile media provides a dynamic approach to creative media production and continuously develops new practices and formats. While some work could be labelled as video, performance or installation art or documentary, it is the original mobile form that is providing innovation within these established disciplines. By means of exploring this rich digital diversity, the MINA program spans across a range of genres from music video to animation. The program demonstrates that mobile filmmaking is a global phenomena.

We hope you will enjoy the 2013 programme, which marks the third year that the International Mobile Innovation Screening has taken place.

We would like to use this opportunity to thank the MINA screening committee: Assoc. Prof. Andre Ktori (Massey University), Ben Lenzner (PhD Candidate Screen and Media Studies University of Waikato), Dr Frances Joseph (AUT University), Karen Curley (School of Design, Massey University), Laurent Antonczak (MINA co-founder & AUT University), Dr Mark Jackson (AUT University), Dr. Marsha Berry (RMIT University) and Dr. Max Schleser (MINA co-founder & School of Design, Massey University) and MINA’s partner film festivals: iPhoneFF (USA), SEISFF (Korea), Cinephone (Spain), Mobile Film Festival (Macedonia), Mobil Film Festival (USA), Ohrenblick and Mobile Streifen (Germany).

With a special thanks to the School of Art & Design (AUT University) and CoLab (Creative Technologies Research Institute for the Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies at AUT University) and continued support from the School of Design and the College of Creative Arts (Massey University).

- Dr. Max RC Schleser, on behalf of the MINA screening committee

Programme:
Łukasz Krysiewicz, Wilhelm Jerusalem - Kołacze
Maria Donata Napoli, Movies are made of light!
Nathalie Giraud + Timothée Corteggiani, The Girl with The Red Balloons
Benoît Labourdette, Break
Kaihei HASE, Hydroscope
Simon Woolham, A Short Term Effect
Anders Weberg, Absent VIII + Sincerely Yours
Kristian Day, I See What Is Here
Lorena A. Díaz Herrera + Stefania Ramírez López, TransmiLoop
Kevin Logan, To Have & To Have Not
Marsha Berry, Slivers of Necessity
Jake Ngawaka, Damp
Ian McClerin, December 28th
Zaher Omareen, Two Stories
Patrick Kelly, North
Khalil Charif, PlayMobil
24 Frames 24 Hours Mobile Filmmaking Crew and Max Schleser, 24 Frames 24 Hours
Leila Nadir + Cary Peppermint, Indeterminate Hikes
Paul Taylor, Digital Trust Hike
Giuliano Chiaradia, #Artmobile Symphony Mobile 4 Editions
Andrew B. White, Diameter
Max Schleser, Midtown<
Jillian Roberts, 24 Minutes
Alexey Abramovich, SIM-Ki
Tam Webster, On the Run
Gerda Cammaer, Mobilarte
Leo Berkeley, The 57
Adrian Miles, About 7am: The First Quarter
Candy Elsmore, A Grand Mother
Seth Keen, Ramblings of a Post-industrial Media Maker
Vadócz Péter, Global Warming
Andrew Ferguson, Honeymoon 1976
Smiljana Glisovic, Icie’s second year (in 5 Chapters)
Daniel Cermak-Sassenrath, Box Me Dumb

The International Mobile Innovation Screening will take place at 7pm, Wednesday 6 November. At The Film Archive, 84 Taranaki St, Wellington.

Listing details: International Mobile Innovation Screening
When: 7pm, Wednesday 6 November
Where: The New Zealand Film Archive, 84 Taranaki St, Wellington
Ticket price: $8 general admission / $6 concession

www.filmarchive.org.nz

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