Cellular Cinema: The Future of Movie Making?
April 4th, 2009As cell phone technology has evolved, people have found new and rather unexpected uses for their cell phones. Cell phones now come with a myriad of features but few have spawned more uses than the camera/camcorder feature, which is available on nearly all current phones.
Case and point, uses for cell phone cameras have evolved just as quickly as the technology in them. The original intent behind camcorder phones was to enable cell phone users to send video messages to friends and family. Now cell phone cameras both aid and thwart criminal activity, record extraordinary situations (i.e. natural disasters) and are also used by people for bootlegging purposes (i.e. recording concerts, live performances, movies, etc.)
Most recently, people have started recording both short and feature length films entirely with their cell phone cameras. Sometimes referred to as ‘Cellular Cinema’ their popularity has grown so much that entire film festivals now exclusively feature films made on cell phones.
This is an excerpt taken from the Pocket Films Festival website: “The Pocket Films Festival explores the potential for audio-visual expression that lies hidden in a “practical high-tech toy,” and through various media, aims to construct an ideal method of communication that excites our sensibilities – something not yet obvious even to artists.”
They acknowledge the medium is still young and not yet taken seriously by most artists. Those on the vanguard of cellular cinema don’t allow this to affect their artistic endeavors as new cell phone films pop up on a daily basis.
Here are some examples taken from Youtube that show some of the creativity coming out of cellular cinema (Warning! Artsy Videos Ahead):
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