Is this the start of a whole new cinematic genre?
The torture of seeing films intended for 30ft cinema screens being squeezed into a 2.5in space has done nothing to deter millions of iPod users from downloading those burnt offerings. But now the traffic is heading in the opposite direction for the first time, with the screening next Sunday at the Boston International Film Festival of a 43-minute movie that was only ever made to be watched in the palm of the hand, and even then in bite-sized, site-specific instalments.
Murder on Beacon Hill is an interactive iPhone app that guides the viewer around locations in Boston pertaining to the killing in 1849 of Dr George Parkman. Download the app, put on your comfortable shoes and head into the streets of the old Beacon Hill neighbourhood, where you can relive the unearthing of a dismembered body beneath Harvard Medical College, the manhunt,...
The torture of seeing films intended for 30ft cinema screens being squeezed into a 2.5in space has done nothing to deter millions of iPod users from downloading those burnt offerings. But now the traffic is heading in the opposite direction for the first time, with the screening next Sunday at the Boston International Film Festival of a 43-minute movie that was only ever made to be watched in the palm of the hand, and even then in bite-sized, site-specific instalments.
Murder on Beacon Hill is an interactive iPhone app that guides the viewer around locations in Boston pertaining to the killing in 1849 of Dr George Parkman. Download the app, put on your comfortable shoes and head into the streets of the old Beacon Hill neighbourhood, where you can relive the unearthing of a dismembered body beneath Harvard Medical College, the manhunt,...
- 4/16/2010
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
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