Film is dead festival
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Film is Dead is an annual digital film festival in Los Angeles, California organized by the Post-Cinematic Society.
In recent years, the film industry has been rocked by the advance of digital technology. From the unexpected success of the first lo-fi Dogme95 film, The Celebration (1998), to George Lucas' foray into digital production and delivery, the celluloid landscape is becoming increasingly digitized.
But it is not the digitization of celluloid that the Post-Cinematic Society is concerned with. It is the birth of a new cinema, one that is digital both in production as well as distribution. A cinema that does not seek to emulate the aesthetics of film, but rather one that seeks a new aesthetic that is true to the specificity of the medium.
The Film is Dead festival celebrates a cinema that embraces pixelation. It exalts a cinema that glorifies compression codecs. It rejoices in a cinema that monumentalizes low bit rates.
Film is dead. Long live digital.
Official Film is Dead website: [1]
