Quo Vadis Short Film? Notes on the Status of and the Perspectives for an...
The most important cinematographic pool from which short film retrospectives are compiled for festivals comes from a bygone era. Over a period lasting several decades, it was standard screening...
View ArticleWhich Funding and Support Does Short Film Need?
Several years have already passed since the “right” funding and support for short film was discussed under this motto during the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. And the answer still...
View ArticleThe Crowd, Not the State
Among many filmmakers, public film funding has a bad reputation. With seemingly incomprehensible funding decisions and major formal barriers, as well as laborious, time-consuming paperwork and...
View ArticleThe Video Essay – More Discourse than Terminology
“Every Frame a Painting” is the name of Canadian filmmaker and editor Tony Zhou’s YouTube channel, which has been online since 2014 and engages with the phenomenon of cinema....
View ArticleOnline Please Not Forever!Some Filmmakers’ Experiences
As a commission member of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, I faced a new challenge with the Covid19 lockdown and the decision to hold the festival online and record... Read More
View ArticleARTE shows short films by video art pioneer David Hall
In its latest issue[1] , the short film magazine “Kurzschluss” on Arte focused on the theme of irritations and dedicated itself to the works of the British television and video... Read More
View Article“… I wish I could do more for you, I wish we could do better for you.” [1]
This year in April, a planned film that was never shot served as a pretext for sentencing the Turkish documentary filmmaker and producer Çiğdem Mater to a prison term of... Read More
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