AVERAGE SHORT FILM BUDGET Very often, the question arises about the average budget for a short film. What is its cost, if we are talking about indie filmmaking? To answer this question, we used about 1.5 thousand short films from all over the world submitted to our festival as the basis for our calculations. These[…]
Between social media and big cinema Despite what is written below, we have some good news At first glance, the field of short films today is not going through the best of times. Of course, the film industry is showing growth and the number of billion in investments, and the revenues are growing into the[…]
As it is well known, cinema was invented in the Celestial Empire, and it was only technically upgraded in Paris … BRIEF HISTORY Today, when we talk about national cinema or its national characteristics, we should take into account that Chinese cinema in its history has not been isolated from external cultural influences. Domestic-oriented film[…]
Even the totalitarian architecture of a cinema hall fails to convince the viewer that cinema is capable of representing topicality. The requirement to turn off cell phones saves the situation. Sometimes. Let’s talk about short forms that can compete with the “big cinema” and draw the viewer’s attention from the big screen to the mobile.[…]
Are the stories, the short videos that are gaining millions of views, a new form of cinema? Or is it not cinema at all? Can we say that cinema is a thing of the past? Will cinema soon take the place of a subculture somewhere alongside anime? What place do short films have in this[…]
THE BEST REAL FILM FESTIVAL The event that everyone had been looking forward to finally happened. The Short Movie Club Film Festival Nefiltravanae Kino took place! This year the festival featured 10 programs: video art, experiment, documentary, fiction, animation, national program, human dignity, women in cinema, unfiltered program and, of course, a program of films[…]
… according to the titles of the short films Hello, everyone. This time we’re going to talk about movie titles. What are the typical names authors choose for their short films? What words do filmmakers choose? Are there any patterns? So we took ten and a half thousand short film titles that have been submitted to[…]
Best Short Films Online We are glad to present you with our virtual movie theater. Here you can watch the best short films online. We decided to collect in one place the films that the authors have posted online. We are talking about the films that have been selected for the programs of our festival.[…]
This article presents our DJ set, a variation on the theme of platitudes about cinematography in academic papers. Thank you for your attention! Allegro: Cinema and Technology As it is known, cinema was born because of the progress of science and technology, but at the same time, it is the result of the centuries-old development[…]