Over the last century, each generation of technology revolutionized filmmaking. But with the smartphone filmmaking, the barrier to entry drops to something close to zero. It's an ultra low-cost medium. It's easy to use. It also offers a sense of immediacy -- you can do away with crew or shoot surreptitiously. It turns anyone into an amateur filmmaker -- but as the smartphone is being adopted by professional filmmakers, it's fostering a new aesthetic. Filmmakers first started using the smartphone to film in 2005; the following year Italian directors, Marcello Mencarini and Barbara Seghezzi released a feature-length doc, "New Love Meetings (Comizi d'Amore)," shot in Mpeg-4 with a mobile phone. In 2007, South African director Aryan Kaganof released "SMS Sugar Man," a feature-length narrative shot using the Sony Ericsson W900i. In 2011, directors Hooman Khalili and Pat Gilles released the feature, "Olive," shot on a Nokia N8, and Korean director Chan-Wook Park released.
- 1/29/2014
- by David Rosen
- Indiewire
Motion Picture Purgatory cartoonist Rick Trembles has moved from purgatory and into hell recently thanks to what appears to be a possible illegal eviction by his landlord. A Montreal news station covers the story and interviews Trembles who provides some damning evidence. The turmoil has left Trembles in a bad way, so if there’s any way anyone reading this can throw him some work, he’d appreciate it. Lastly, his latest strip is a review of 1968′s Canuxploitation thriller Playgirl Killer.Cinemascope gives the true history of the filmmaking via cell phone phenomenon, giving rightful appreciation to Aryan Kaganof’s boundary-breaking SMS Sugar Man.Heard that old Bad Lit friend Christopher Folino (Gamers) has a new movie in the works called Sparks. Actually, I think it’s nearing completion and you can get a preview of it at its official website. Based on a comic book co-written with William Katt...
- 2/12/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
If you live in the U.S. — and probably many places in the world — you don’t know who filmmaker Aryan Kaganof is. His films don’t screen at festivals here. Never has his work been released on DVD here. Nor is he ever written up on any U.S. film website, except the one you’re reading. While the above video produced by One Small Seed is more abstract than a proper intro, the piece gives a good feel of what this South African cinematic provocateur is all about. Warning: Nsfw in the least!
At any given time, Kaganof would top a Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film list of filmmakers who deserves wider appreciation. I wish his films would make it to the U.S., so everyone could see what they’re missing out on. Luckily, I was introduced to his work via mutual friend Dionysos Andronis,...
At any given time, Kaganof would top a Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film list of filmmakers who deserves wider appreciation. I wish his films would make it to the U.S., so everyone could see what they’re missing out on. Luckily, I was introduced to his work via mutual friend Dionysos Andronis,...
- 6/6/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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