Pocket Films Festival

The dimension of using a cell phone is underestimated.You know that you can send e-mails and text messages, share pictures, listen to music but did you know that you can shoot movies with your cell phone? Not a short video but an actual, over an hour long movie? Wow..Never thought it would have gone so far. It's the smart french people. Already in 2005, when there weren't that many high-tech cell phones as now, they came up with the idea that it is worth a try.Because as a movie maker, or an artistic creative person, you see and discover a lot of new things every day. You notice things, people around you, nature..and you wanna capture certain moments or scenery. You don't wanna let it go cause you wanna share it with others.Since you don't have a camera with you 24/7, for logical reasons, the thing you do in such a situation is using your cell phone.Many people used this opportunity and so it comes that in June this year, already 4th edition of the Pocket Films Festival is taking place in Paris, organised by the " Forum des Images ". Becoming so popular the festival is gonna take place for the first time in Japan as well.Is it a new form of cinema? Is it where the future is gonna take us? Or is it just an experiment? From historical view there has always been a coherence between movie making and technology.So maybe we're ready for the next level.

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