Damon Stea’s “Memoirs of a Scanner”, an entry in this year’s Disposable Film Festival – which celebrates film making minus movie cameras – was produced using a flatbed scanner…
Stea, a double-major in cinema production and videogame design at USC, ran into one technical difficulty. “It was hard to do lighting for a machine that was [...]
Flatbed scanners and a new way to make movies
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 5 March, 2010 to the movies subset
The Australian Film Festival 2010, Randwick, Sydney
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 22 January, 2010 to the events subset
The inaugural Australian Film Festival runs from Wednesday 24 February, to Sunday 7 March 2010, with most the action taking place at the Ritz Cinema, in Randwick, Sydney.
Growing out of the successful 2009 Australian Film Week, the Australian Film Festival is dedicated to the screening, production and development of Australian film. The AFF will screen [...]
Ten film festival movies that should have seen general release
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 23 December, 2009 to the movies subset
Ten movies from the film festival circuit that Guardian film writer David Parkinson thinks should have seen wider distribution this year.
Much festival fare falls squarely into the three-star category. But, every now and then, a disc arrives in the post containing a gem that leaves you wondering how the distributors missed it.
See the best movies made in Antarctica
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 17 August, 2009 to the movies subset
The inhabitants of bases across Antarctica participating in the Antarctic film festival had just 48 hours to produce their entries… I’d have needed two full Antarctic days.
The Spot Food and Film Festival 2009, Randwick
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 24 February, 2009 to the events subset
“The Spot Food and Film Festival” happens this Sunday, 1 March, on the streets of “The Spot” (which will be closed to traffic) and outside the Ritz Cinema in Randwick, Sydney.
I don’t really know too much about the event except that it is being billed “a feast of food, entertainment, children’s activities and film”. There’s [...]
Blink and you’ll miss it, the 15 Second Film Festival
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 9 December, 2008 to the movies subset
What ever happens, you don’t want to be late for this film festival, the 15 Second Film Festival, that is.
Toured in a small, but perfectly formed, two-seater itinerant Art-Deco Picture Palace the “15 Second Film Festival Experience” delivers a carefully curated programme of eye-popping, lip-smacking, brain-tickling quarter-minute masterpieces. The brainchild of Peter “Magic” Johnston the [...]
