ITVS Digital futures guide

The US ITVS (Independent Television Service) have a useful downloadable PDF guide on Digital Futures usefully covering the basics of a next generation moving image landscape. "Digital Futures: A Need-to-Know Policy Guide for Independent Filmmakers From the quagmire of copyright to the broadband revolution, digital technology has changed the game for independent filmmakers everywhere. What do these technologies look like? How will the battles over new policies affect filmmaking? Digital Futures is a free guide designed to help independent filmmakers survive and thrive in the digital age. 51-page guide includes: an explanation and glossary of digital technology terms; expert analysis... Read more "ITVS Digital futures guide" »

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Cinema is dead, Long live cinema?

The Cinema Militans lecture by Peter Greenaway, is a timely treatise and call for the reinvention of cinema. Critical themes of evolving cinematic conventions and grammar are becoming more relevant as the digital film field and the accompanying technologies mature. (More detailed commentary on this area can be found in the forthcoming book, The End of Celluloid). The lecture highlights Greenaway's 'Four tyrannies' destroying cinema - that of the text, the frame, the actor and the camera. The Tulse Luper Suitcases production site also has further details unfolding of Greenaway's grand 'database cinema' project: April 30, 2004 is the submission...