All cinemas are expected to convert to digital projectors by 2015, and this digital shift is having a dramatic affect on film festivals submission, exhibition, and distribution processes. Quvis recently put out a survey report that gives filmmakers great insight into how cinema digitization is affecting film festival organizers, judging and screening practices, as well as filmmakers? distribution options out of film festivals….
In order to speak of appropriation we must first answer the question: What do we mean by film text? As Christian Metz put it since the 1970s in his article “The Imaginary Signifier”1 published on Screen, film implies the entire institution of filmmaking: the creation, the distribution, and the exhibition of the work. The term ‘text’ derives…
I can easily understand why most of the libidinal guys would inarguably prefer a technically sound Pamela Anderson to a Miss Plain Jane next door with a 31-32-33 figure. But most of you work it out with Miss Plain Jane. It’s the same with technology. We all strive for the best, the biggest, the brightest and the…
