Guerilla Productions for Very Small Screens: Transformations through Mobile Creativity

Helen Keegan http://twitter.com/heloukee http://heloukee.wordpress.com

Mobile films…Pocket Cinema… Very Small Screens

Shoot the Summer (Hugh Garry)

Fear Thy Not – Sophie Sherman

“The Keitai Aesthetic emphasises the importance of location… mobile devices make the mundane interesting, the everyday confronted… the sense of intimate connectedness to the message, it’s subject and the author”

(Max Schlesser, 2008)

Personal Jesus - Yaroslav Dimont

“I first discovered the mobile phone camera as a creative tool quite by accident when I was taking a video of my nephews playing on swings in a park and the sun happened to be slowly setting in the background. When I later viewed the videos on a computer I noticed that there were many appealing "quirks" in the way that the camera dealt with things like sudden changes in light and sudden movement. I guess in a sense I just found the way it dealt with "errors" aesthetically appealing. Also it seemed to pixelate things in a way which was reminiscent of old Super 8 film; somehow the digital noise was distorted in a way that was unpredictable and inspiring.”

(Tim Bruniges, visual artist and filmmaker)

RAGE – Sally Potter

An Ounce of Mother Cardboard Car Touch Humanity

authentic

spontaneous

intimate

democratic

shareable

So how does this work in an

educational context?

Learning, Teaching and the

Very Small Screen

Epistemology of practice

FilmSoundFound

“When the new media replace or mix with traditional ones, a long established practice may be perturbed or even disrupted by the discontinuity.... the appearance of a new medium in a specific domain of practice, whatever conceptualization one may prefer to account for the phenomenon, is always a complex and dynamic event, involving a blend of discontinuity and continuity, disruption as well as construction”

LANZARA (2010) Remediation of practices: How new media change the ways we see and do things in practical domains First Monday Volume 15, Number 6 - 7 June 2010

Life Cycles

From Busk til Dawn The Move

Mobile Cyphers 8MP Desperados Carry the Torch

Moar House and Whatever

authentic

spontaneous

intimate

democratic

shareable

Guerilla Productions for Very Small Screens: Transformations through Mobile Creativity

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