A panel last September at the Vancouver Film Festival raised some interesting points about the digital revolution affecting cinema.
The panel included: film critic David Bordwell; producer Simon Field; film critic and TIFF programmer Andréa Picard; film critic and Vancity program coordinator Tom Charity; and the director of VIFF, Alan Franey.
The discuss the following topics:
- The imminent death of 35mm prints and what that means
- The possible future of film festivals in the digital age
- Whether celluloid is like vinyl
- Parallels with the music business
- Torrenting and the problems it poses
- The quality of projection
- The importance of festivals in developing a more rounded appreciation of the medium
- Failure of film education to expose students to new forms of cinema
- The serious problem of preserving digitally native films (Bordwell’s blog post is here)
- Higher frame-rates
- The projection difference between digital (pixels) and celluloid (molecules)
- Challenges facing festivals in appealing to the next generation
- A new generation of critics emerging online
- The responsibility festivals have to cinema history
- How hard social times might be good for filmmakers
[via Film Studies for Free]
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