mobile-mentary @ Conflux 2007

At the conflux festival I explored psychogeography through the lens of a mobile phone filmmaker. In the 30min presentation I illustrated the capacity of mobile devices to merge cityscapes with the cinematic dimensions of time and space.
A 15min Q + A session followed the talk and I invited individual members of the audience to view the micro-movies in the Streets of Brooklyn (NYC) on their mobile devices. By means of altering the screening parameters, viewing the micro-movies in an urban space, a new cinematic experience is created. Mobile productions cannot only be shot on location, but can also be viewed on location. The montage technique is conceptually extended, fusing city and cinematic space, creating an original mobile-montage. As the genre of mobile production is manifesting its position in the mediascape, it is key to analyse the mobile productions as a discipline of its own.