FILM IS DEAD FESTIVALS:

Film is Dead 2008 Long Live the New Flesh!

Dead Film Tells No Lies 2007

Film is (still) Dead 2006

Film is Dead 2005


Special thanks to our sponsors:
  • The Digital Arts Institute
  • Media Cubed Post Production Facility
  • Sea Bottom Digital

    • In recent years, the film industry has been rocked by the advance of digital technology. From the unexpected success of the first lo-fi Dogme95 film, The Celebration (1998), to George Lucas' foray into digital production and delivery, the celluloid landscape is becoming increasingly digitized.

    But it is not the digitization of celluloid that we are concerned with. It is the birth of a new cinema, one that is digital both in production as well as distribution. A cinema that does not seek to emulate the aesthetics of film, but rather one that seeks a new aesthetic that is true to the specificity of the medium.

    We celebrate a cinema that embraces pixelation. We exalt a cinema that glorifies compression codecs. We rejoice in a cinema that monumentalizes low bit rates.

    Film is dead. Long live digital.

    For more information, contact Morris Kline, festival coordinator, at postcinematic@gmail.com.

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