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plugincinema.com launches the pluginmanifesto: It's time to reclaim film. |
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Written by Kyma
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First came the DOGME 95 manifesto, where a collective of film directors founded in Copenhagen in spring 1995 expressed the goal of countering 'certain tendencies' towards 'cosmetics' over content in the cinema today, they remarked, "Today a technological storm is raging, the result of which will be the ultimate democratisation of the cinema." We agree, and now the online film website plugincinema.com is launching the pluginmanifesto, where filmmakers are asked to take advantage of the digital technology revolution. The manifesto aims to create a definitive framework that filmmakers can use to produce films specifically for the Internet, to work with the medium, to see technological limitations as a creative catalyst. While traditional film was hijacked very early on in its career, filmmaking for the Internet is at a truly exciting time. Currently, very little exists that has been designed for viewing on the Net. The difference is in the manifest aim of the film, whether it be to communicate and inform as well as entertain, or whether the overriding aim is to make money.
It's time to reclaim film.
The first public discussion on the pluginmanifeso will be at the Watershed Media Centre in Bristol in the Digital Cafe on 17th May 2001 at 7.30pm, entry is free.
Notes For editors:
plugincinema.com
plugincinema.com is a site dedicated to the creation, distribution and exhibition of films on-line. As broadband, handheld devices and interactive television rush onto the market there will in an ever increasing need for the creation of content. Not just any content but content designed to be viewed with an awareness of the technological and aesthetic issues involved.
The growing community of media creators who will provide the ideas and vision to adorn this new wave of technology will need a portal. They will need to learn, discuss and expand their ideas. plugincinema.com is lined up to meet these needs. It has grown organically from being a research site for a PhD to a service for all Net filmmakers. The direction the site moves in the future will be determined by both the response of our users and a creative use of current technology. The site features the films and writings of filmmakers from the local area, nationally and abroad including countries like Russia and the US.
More information on plugincinema.com's activities can be found here: http://www.plugincinema.com/plugin/about_us
Watershed
plugincinema.com has been running monthly workshops for filmmakers and anyone interested in digital and online filmmaking at the Watershed media centre in Bristol, UK. The Watershed is an ideal venue for such activities due to it's strong emphasis on new-media with events such as the Brief Encounters Short Film Festival.
More on the watershed can be found at:
http://www.watershed.co.uk
More on the Brief Encounters Film Festival can be found at:
http://www.brief-encounters.co.uk
Dogme95
This filmmaking method asserts, "DOGME 95 counters the individual film by the principle of presenting an indisputable set of rules known as THE VOW OF CHASTITY. In 1960 enough was enough! The movie had been cosmeticised to death, they said; yet since then the use of cosmetics has exploded. The 'supreme' task of the decadent film-makers is to fool the audience. Is that what we are so proud of? Is that what the '100 years' have brought us? Illusions via which emotions can be communicated? ... By the individual artist's free choice of trickery?"
More information on Dogme95 can be found at: http://www.tvropa.com/tvropa1.2/film/dogme95/menu/menuset.htm
The pluginmanifesto
More information on this and the manifesto itself can be found at:
http://www.pluginmanifesto.com
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