BFI 53rd London Film Festival

From October 14th to 29th, the 53rd London Film Festival.

BFI London Film Festival. The website

Further informations and programme, HERE.

The last survivor of the Titanic has died

The last living survivor of the Titanic, ­Millvina Dean, has died at the age of 97 in Southampton after catching pneumonia. As a two-weeks-old baby, Dean was the youngest passenger on board the giant liner when it sank on its maiden voyage with the loss of more than 1,500 lives. Further informations, here.

Milvina Dean

With her, the last witness of a piece of our histoy and our cultural imaginary disappears.

Cinema industries in Italy

The latest yearly report about Italian market and cinema industries assets, promoted and published by Ente dello Spettacolo, will be presented at LUISS University on June 11th 2009.

The participants at the round table will be:

• Pier Luigi Celli, CEO LUISS “Guido Carli”
• Dario Edoardo Viganò, Chair Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo
• Michele Sorice, Director of the Centre for Media and Communication Studies “Massimo Baldini”,  LUISS University
• Luciano Sovena, AD Cinecittà Luce S.p.A.
• Steve Della Casa, President Film Commission Torino Piemonte
• Mario Gianani, Producer
• Redento Mori, report’s scientific coordinator

The round table will be chaired by Gloria Satta, journalist at  Il Messaggero.

Thursday, June 11th, 11.30 a.m. Room “Silvano Toti” (203) @ LUISS “Guido Carli”, viale Romania, 32 -Roma

The LUISS Students will receive a free copy of the report.

Download the flyer HERE

PhD Studentship @ Aberdeen

The University of Aberdeen’s Film and Visual Culture Department is pleased to offer FOUR PhD studentships (three years, home fees only) and TWO taught M Litt in Visual Culture studentships (one year, home fees only) for students applying to commence their studies in 2009/10. Doctoral students have an opportunity to undertake a traditional thesis or one involving film practice-as-research, with a shorter written element. Supervision can either be pursued wholly within Film and Visual Culture, or depending on your topic, co-supervision arrangements are available with the following departments:
Anthropology
Archaeology
Business School
Gaelic Studies
History of Art
Music
Scottish and Irish Studies

For further details visit the Film and Visual Culture Department’s website, clicking HERE and contact: film@abdn.ac.uk

“Basette” @ “Arcipelago”

The short film “Basette”, produced by Emiliana De Blasio (coordinator of Crisc-Cmcs) will be presented in Rome (Italy) at the 16th edition of the International Festival of Short Films and New Images. “Basette” will be on screen on June 13th, 8.30 p.m., cinema Intrastevere, Rome.

FilMobile

Exhibition, Conference & Screenings

4 April – 4 May 08

FILMOBILE is a network project developed at the University of Westminster bringing together the mobile phone industry, filmmakers and artists working with mobile devices. In April and May 2008 FILMOBILE is organising a major international event consisting of a gallery exhibition, cinema screenings and an international conference. This event will explore the cultural and economic impact brought about by new mobile technologies and initiate debates between artists, the media and the new mobile industry.

The FILMOBILE EXHIBITION at London Gallery West will feature mobile art works by Mark Amerika, Camille Baker, Bebe Beard, Melissa Bliss, Elly Clarke, Romain Forquy, Steve Hawley, Brian House, Brooke A. Knight, Simon Longo, Anne Massoni, Kasia Molga, Sylvie Prasad, Michele Pred, Henry Reichhold, Max Schleser and Jo Thomas.

The FILMOBILE CONFERENCE at The Old Lumiere Cinema includes more than 22 speakers from the USA, South Africa, Australia, Germany, Italy and the UK addressing the global impact of mobile technologies in the domain of art, media and communication. A live web broadcast with the Mobilefest in Brazil is scheduled to take place during the conference. For detailed conference program see here

Friday 4 April

Conference opening (16:00)Dr. Joram ten Brink
Panel 1 (16:15 – 17:30) – New Media – New Opportunities

Chair Max Schleser

• Tony Fish / AMF VENTURES Dennis Morrison / Zizzl Films
• Emily Renshaw-Smith / Current TV
• Helen Keegan / BeepMarketingEmma Bewley / TV Producer Leo Burnett
  

Panel 2 (17:45 – 18:30) – New Media – Mobile Art

Chair Camille Baker

• Melissa Bliss / Artist / Instant films
• Jo Thomas / Sound artist / A Musical Gestalt – Composing Electronic Sound for Mobile Technology
• Kasia Molga / Artist / The expression of the interdependence in the visual arts experience via mobile phones

FILMOBILE Cinema Screening (18:30 – 20:30)

• 18:30 – 19:30 SMS Sugar Man (Aryan Kaganof)
• 19:30 – 20:30 Why didn’t anybody tell me it would become this bad in Afghanistan (Cyrus Frisch)

20:30 FILMOBILE wine reception

Saturday 5 April

FILMOBILE Conference 10:30 - 18:30

FILMOBILE Conference 10:30 (Max Schleser)

Panel 3 (11:00 – 12:00) – Mobile Micro Mass Media

Chair: Gabriel Moreno

• Larissa Hjorth / RMIT University, Melbourne (Australia) / WAITING FOR IMMEDIACY(exercises for documenting everyday life)
• Professor Michele Sorice / Crisc-Cmcs, University of Rome (Italy) and University of Lugano (Switzerland) and Dr. Emiliana De Blasio / Crisc-Cmcs and University of Molise (Italy) / Mobile Audiences between Access and Participation
• Elizabeth Evans / University of Nottingham (UK) / Bursting Bubbles: Private Television, Public Space

Panel 4 (12:15 – 13:15) – Mobile Content Production and Delivery

Chair: Professor Dave Taylor

• Daniel Florencio / Multimedia producer (Brazil/UK) Mobile Media
• Monica Horten – University of Westminster (UK) / The political battle for mobile online content
• Mark Brill / Ping Corporation Ltd, immedia24 (UK) / Delivering Mobile Content to the Consumer

13:15-15:00 LUNCH

Screening Max with a Kaitai (2008 Max Schleser)

Panel 5 (15:00 – 16:00) – Mobile Filmmaking

Chair: Dr. Joram ten Brink

• Professor Steve Hawley / Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) / Aesthetics of the mobile video
• Dr. Thomas Meyer / University of Siegen (Germany) / Mobile-Mentary: An Approach
• Max Schleser / University of Westminster (UK) / Max With a Kaitai – a mobile-mentary

Panel 6 (16:15 – 17:15) – Mobile Participation

Chair: Peter Dunn

• Chris Chadwick / ICDC, Liverpool (UK) / Mobile Movies
• Camille Baker / SMARTlab, University of East London (UK) / MindTouch: embodied transference/transcendence
• Bebe Beard / Suffolk University, Bosten (USA) / When You Hold It To Your Ear You Can Hear the Ocean, See?

Panel 7 (17:30 – 18:30) – Mobile Stories

Chair: Tom Corby

• Brian House / Knifeandfork – New York (USA) / Subversive (Mobile) Storytelling
• Professor (Dr) Lizbeth Goodman / SMARTlab (UK) / Performing Live and Online in the Mobile Metaverse
• Dr. Terry Wright / University of Ulster / Drogheda viaduct and Battle of the Boyne

Conference and screenings at The Old Lumière Cinema
309 Regent Street, London W1R 8AL (tube Oxford Circus)

Download here the conference/exhibition folder

FilMobile poster